Lee Spetner
Lee Spetner PP MAN | |
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Washington University MIT | |
Known for | Critique of modern synthesis |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Physics, biophysics |
Institutions | Johns Hopkins University |
Doctoral advisor | Bruno Rossi |
Lee M. Spetner is an American and Israeli
Biography
Education
Spetner received his BS degree in mechanical engineering from the McKelvey School of Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis in 1945[2] and his Ph.D. in physics from MIT in 1950, where his Ph.D. thesis advisors were Robert Williams and Bruno Rossi.[3]
Career
Spetner continued to study at the Applied Physics Laboratory at Johns Hopkins University from 1951 to 1970, working on guided-missile systems. In 1970, he became technical director of Eljim, Ltd., later a subsidiary of Elbit, Ltd. in Nes Tsiona, Israel, where he was a manager, a period that lasted a further 20 years.[2][4] His work here was on military electronic systems, including electronic countermeasures, and a military electronic navigation system.[2]
He taught courses at the Johns Hopkins University,
Spetner first became interested in
Spetner, an avowed theist, has been described as a
Spetner is a critic of the role of
We see then that the mutation reduces the specificity of the ribosome protein and that means a loss of genetic information. ... Rather than saying the bacterium gained resistance to the antibiotic, it is more correct to say that is lost sensitivity to it. ... All point mutations that have been studied on the molecular level turn out to reduce the genetic information and not increase it.
— Lee Spetner, Not by Chance, Shattering the Modern Theory of Evolution[18]
Spetner continued to study after retirement, pursuing interests in evolution[4] and cancer cures.[3]
Spetner's latest book "The Evolution Revolution: Why Thinking People are Rethinking Evolution" develops his nonrandom hypothesis (NREH) and was published in 2014 by Judaica Press.[10]
References
- ISBN 978-1-880582-24-4
- ^ a b c d Worldscientific Biographies Retrieved December 2010
- ^ a b MIT Alumni report 2008 Archived 2010-02-15 at the Wayback Machine Retrieved December 2010
- ^ a b Biography of Lee M. Spetner at B'Or Ha'Torah Archived 2011-07-25 at the Wayback Machine Retrieved December 2010
- ISBN 1-880582-24-4.
- PMID 5875346.
- ^ "Mutation -- a pacemaker for evolution". Proceedings 2nd International Congress on Biophysics, Vienna. 1966.
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- S2CID 4201339.
- ^ a b "The Evolution Revolution". Judaica Press.
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- ^ Hasofer, A.M. "A Statistician Looks at Neo-Darwinism." Archived 2019-01-11 at the Wayback Machine B'Or Ha'Torah Vol. 3. (1983): 13-21.
- ^ Hasofer, A. M. "A simplified treatment of Spetner's natural selection model." Journal of Theoretical Biology 11, no. 2 (1966): 338-342.
- ^ Tom McIver, Anti-evolution: an annotated bibliography, 2008 p. 277
- ISBN 1-880582-24-4.
- ISBN 978-1-60763-155-2.
- ^ Randy Moore, Mark Decker, Sehoya Cotner, Chronology of the evolution-creationism controversy, 2010, pp. 286 - 287.
- ^ Lee Spetner, Not by Chance, Shattering the Modern Theory of Evolution, 1996, pp 131 - 138
External links
- A Scientific Critique of Evolution, Lee Spetner in an exchange with Edward E. Max.
- A Continuation of Spetner v. Max - discusses the B-cell and selection.
- a review of Lee Spetner's "NOT BY CHANCE!" by Gert Korthof
- Spetner derives non-random evolution from the Talmud
- Carl Wieland provides overview of "Not by Chance"
- Not By Chance / Translation to Hebrew (Shlomo Levi), Lee Spetner, "Daat" Site.