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'''David Charles Cunningham Watson''', (20 February 1920 – 12 January 2004) was an English teacher, author and [[creationist]], born in [[Bharatpur, India]].<ref name="The Hindu">{{cite news |url=http://www.hinduonnet.com/2004/02/08/16hdline.htm |title=Obituary |date=8 February 2004 |work=[[The Hindu]] |access-date=2008-07-26}}</ref> | '''David Charles Cunningham Watson''', (20 February 1920 – 12 January 2004) was an English teacher, author and [[creationist]], born in [[Bharatpur, India]].<ref name="The Hindu">{{cite news |url=http://www.hinduonnet.com/2004/02/08/16hdline.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071117170013/http://www.hinduonnet.com/2004/02/08/16hdline.htm |url-status=usurped |archive-date=17 November 2007 |title=Obituary |date=8 February 2004 |work=[[The Hindu]] |access-date=2008-07-26}}</ref> | ||
==Biography== | ==Biography== | ||
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In 1976 Watson, who was a member of the [[Evolution Protest Movement]], lost his job teaching religious education at a state school in the United Kingdom. Although creationists publicly reported that this dismissal was for refusing "to teach that Genesis is myth" and rallied to his support, they privately intimated opinions about his inability to control pupils classroom behaviour and failure to follow the prescribed syllabus. The ''[[Times Educational Supplement]]'' reported that students interrupted his class with shouts of "rubbish".<ref>{{cite book | last = Numbers | first = Ronald | author-link = Ronald Numbers | title = [[The Creationists]]: From Scientific Creationism to Intelligent Design, Expanded Edition | publisher = Harvard University Press | date = 30 November 2006 | pages = [https://archive.org/details/creationistsfrom0000numb/page/300 300, p521–522:n31] | isbn = 0-674-02339-0 }}</ref> | In 1976 Watson, who was a member of the [[Evolution Protest Movement]], lost his job teaching religious education at a state school in the United Kingdom. Although creationists publicly reported that this dismissal was for refusing "to teach that Genesis is myth" and rallied to his support, they privately intimated opinions about his inability to control pupils classroom behaviour and failure to follow the prescribed syllabus. The ''[[Times Educational Supplement]]'' reported that students interrupted his class with shouts of "rubbish".<ref>{{cite book | last = Numbers | first = Ronald | author-link = Ronald Numbers | title = [[The Creationists]]: From Scientific Creationism to Intelligent Design, Expanded Edition | publisher = Harvard University Press | date = 30 November 2006 | pages = [https://archive.org/details/creationistsfrom0000numb/page/300 300, p521–522:n31] | isbn = 0-674-02339-0 }}</ref> | ||
As of 1980 he was Director of the [[Institute for Creation Research]]'s Midwest Center in Illinois,<ref>[[Henry M. Morris|Morris, Henry]], [http://www.icr.org/articles/print/163 ICR staff list] in ICR's ''Acts & Facts'' magazine, August 1980.</ref><!-- also | As of 1980 he was Director of the [[Institute for Creation Research]]'s Midwest Center in Illinois,<ref>[[Henry M. Morris|Morris, Henry]], [http://www.icr.org/articles/print/163 ICR staff list] in ICR's ''Acts & Facts'' magazine, August 1980.</ref><!-- also verifiable from http://www.libertyparkusafd.org/lp/Paley/Papers/Pre-1990/The%20ICR%20Scientists.htm and acknowledged in ICR's obituary notice in http://www.icr.org/pdf/af/af0403.pdf --> but in September of that year [[Walt Brown (creationist)|Walt Brown]] assumed that role.<ref>Dutton, Julie A., [http://www.lib.niu.edu/1981/ii810222.html 'Scientific creationism' challenges theory of evolution], Illinois Issues/23, February 1981</ref> In 1997, the journal of another UK creationist group published an article that included Watson's views in a table comparing the opinions of "leading creationists".<ref>Bradshaw, Robert I., Disagreements Among Leading Creationists Over Biblical Interpretation in "The Interpretation of Nature & the Bible", ''Origins'' (1997), journal of the [[Biblical Creation Society]]. Republished on author's website [http://www.biblicalstudies.org.uk/article_creationherm.html BiblicalStudies.org.uk]</ref> | ||
He died in [[Worthing]] in 2004.<ref name="The Hindu"/> | He died in [[Worthing]] in 2004.<ref name="The Hindu"/> | ||
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