Profile of Ken Miller on Famous Like Me

Kenneth R. Miller (born 1948) is a biology professor at Brown University. Miller, a Roman Catholic, is particularly known for his opposition to creationism, including the intelligent design movement. He rejects the argument from design. He has written a book on the subject entitled Finding Darwin's God: A Scientist's Search for Common Ground Between God and Evolution. In this book, he attempts to prove that strong beliefs in God and in evolution are not mutually exclusive.

Miller has appeared in court as a witness and on panels debating the teaching of intelligent design in schools. In 2002, the Ohio State Board of Education held a public debate between prominent evolutionists, including Miller, and proponents of intelligent design. He was a witness in a Cobb County, Georgia case testing the legality of stickers calling evolution a "theory, not a fact" that were placed on the biology textbook Miller authored. In 2005, the judge ruled that the stickers violated the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment to the United States Constitution. Miller's textbook is also at the center of the Dover, Pennsylvania case challenging the school board's mandate to incorporate intelligent design into the curriculum. A hearing in that case began in September 2005.

Miller received his Ph.D. from the University of Colorado in 1974. His research involves problems of structure and function in biological membranes, and he uses electron microscopy.

Bibliogaphy

• Miller, K.R. (2000) Finding Darwin's God: A Scientist's Search for Common Ground Between God and Evolution ISBN 0060930497
• Miller, K.R. and Levine, J. (2002) Biology: The Living Science various editions of High School textbook.

Related topics

• Creation and evolution in public education

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