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'''Douglas Dewar''' ( | '''Douglas Dewar''' (28 May 1875 – 13 January 1957) was a [[barrister]], British civil servant in India, and [[ornithology|ornithologist]] who wrote several books about Indian birds. He wrote widely in newspapers such as ''The Madras Mail'', ''Pioneer'', ''Times of India'' and periodicals such as the ''[[Civil and Military Gazette]]'' and ''Bird Notes.''<ref>''Glimpses of Indian Birds'', Foreword.</ref> | ||
==Biography== | ==Biography== | ||
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In his early education, he had been taught the ideas of evolution and was half-hearted in his acceptance of the principles. Although his early works on ornithology seemed to accept ideas of adaptation and selection, he later became a [[creationist]] and published a number of books and debates attacking evolution, and was the founding secretary-treasurer in the [[Evolution Protest Movement]] in 1932 along with [[Bernard Acworth]] and [[Lewis Merson Davies]],<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://dannyreviews.com/h/Creationists.html|title=The Creationists (Ronald Numbers) - book review}}</ref> jointly known as the Acworth Circle. He leaned towards the idea of [[old earth creationism]] but questioned [[radiometric dating]]. His book, ''The Transformist Illusion'' published posthumously in 1957 attempted to show the failure of evolution using examples such as the infinitesimal probability of proteins arising out of random mixing, the fossil record, bird anatomy, blood group incompatibilities, and queried evolutionary claims in embryology and vestigial organs. Reviewers pointed out the problems in his objections.<ref>Review by D.S. Robertson of ''The Transformist Illusion'', by Douglas Dewar; Dehoff Publications, Tennessee; 1957; 306 pp. in the ''Journal of the American Scientific Affiliation'' 1960. [http://www.asa3.org/ASA/BookReviews1949-1989/9-60.html online]</ref><ref>{{cite book|pages= [https://archive.org/details/creationistsfrom0000numb/page/166 166–167]|title= The creationists: from scientific creationism to intelligent design|author= Numbers, RL|publisher= Harvard University Press|year= 2006|isbn= 0-674-02339-0|url= https://archive.org/details/creationistsfrom0000numb/page/166}}</ref> | In his early education, he had been taught the ideas of evolution and was half-hearted in his acceptance of the principles. Although his early works on ornithology seemed to accept ideas of adaptation and selection, he later became a [[creationist]] and published a number of books and debates attacking evolution, and was the founding secretary-treasurer in the [[Evolution Protest Movement]] in 1932 along with [[Bernard Acworth]] and [[Lewis Merson Davies]],<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://dannyreviews.com/h/Creationists.html|title=The Creationists (Ronald Numbers) - book review}}</ref> jointly known as the Acworth Circle. He leaned towards the idea of [[old earth creationism]] but questioned [[radiometric dating]]. His book, ''The Transformist Illusion'' published posthumously in 1957 attempted to show the failure of evolution using examples such as the infinitesimal probability of proteins arising out of random mixing, the fossil record, bird anatomy, blood group incompatibilities, and queried evolutionary claims in embryology and vestigial organs. Reviewers pointed out the problems in his objections.<ref>Review by D.S. Robertson of ''The Transformist Illusion'', by Douglas Dewar; Dehoff Publications, Tennessee; 1957; 306 pp. in the ''Journal of the American Scientific Affiliation'' 1960. [http://www.asa3.org/ASA/BookReviews1949-1989/9-60.html online]</ref><ref>{{cite book|pages= [https://archive.org/details/creationistsfrom0000numb/page/166 166–167]|title= The creationists: from scientific creationism to intelligent design|author= Numbers, RL|publisher= Harvard University Press|year= 2006|isbn= 0-674-02339-0|url= https://archive.org/details/creationistsfrom0000numb/page/166}}</ref> | ||
The Dewars had | The Dewars had three sons who died before them. The youngest, Douglas died in 1939 and was buried at Frimley. The second John, died in 1940 and their eldest son Kenyon died in 1942. Only their daughter, Millicent, who married Walter Waldron lived beyond them.<ref>{{cite news|newspaper=Northampton Mercury |date=30 December 1927|url=http://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000317/19271230/102/0005|page=5|title=[Personal]}}</ref> | ||
==Writings== | ==Writings== | ||
Dewar wrote several books mainly on the birds of India, numerous articles in newspapers and other periodicals and later in life wrote critiques on the theory of evolution. | Dewar wrote several books mainly on the birds of India, numerous articles in newspapers and other periodicals and later in life wrote critiques on the theory of evolution. | ||
* | * (1903) ''[https://www.fadedpage.com/showbook.php?pid=20130633 Animals of no importance]'' | ||
* | * (1906) ''[https://www.fadedpage.com/showbook.php?pid=20130906 Bombay ducks; an account of some of the every-day birds and beasts found in a naturalist's Eldorado.]'' | ||
* | * (1908) ''[https://www.fadedpage.com/showbook.php?pid=20140722 Birds of the plains.]'' | ||
* | * (1909) ''[https://www.fadedpage.com/showbook.php?pid=20140534 The making of species]''. London, New York, J. Lane Company. (with [[Frank Finn]] | ||
* | * (1910) ''[https://archive.org/details/cu31924000115646 Indian birds; being a key to the common birds of the plains of India]'' | ||
* | * (1911) ''[https://archive.org/details/notesonenglishpr00dewauoft Notes on the English pre-mutiny records in the United Provinces]'' | ||
* | * (1912) ''[https://www.fadedpage.com/showbook.php?pid=20140533 Jungle Folk. Indian natural history sketches.]'' John Lane, London. | ||
* | * (1913) ''[https://archive.org/details/glimpsesofindian00dewarich Glimpses of Indian birds.]'' | ||
* | * (1915) ''[https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/23755 Birds of the Indian hills]''. | ||
* | * (1916) ''[https://archive.org/details/birdcalendarforn00dewarich A bird calendar for northern India.]'' | ||
* | * (1920) In the days of the Company. Calcutta : Thacker, Spink & Co. | ||
* | * (1920?) [https://archive.org/stream/handbooktoenglis00dewauoft#page/n3/mode/2up A handbook to the English pre-Mutiny records in the Government Record Rooms of the United Provinces of Agra and Oudh.] | ||
* | * (1922) ''[https://archive.org/details/bygonedaysinindi00dewa Bygone days in India]'' | ||
* | * (1923) ''[https://archive.org/details/himalayankashmir00dewa Himalayan and Kashmiri birds, being a key to the birds commonly seen in summer in the Himalayas & Kashmir]'' | ||
* | * (1923) The Common Birds of India. [https://archive.org/details/CommonBirds1 Volume 1] & [https://archive.org/details/CommonBirds2 2]. Thacker, Spink & Co., Calcutta. | ||
* | * (1923) Birds at the Nest. London: John Lane. | ||
* | * (1929) [https://archive.org/details/IndianVillageBirds Birds of an Indian Village]. Oxford University Press. | ||
* | * (1931) ''Difficulties of the evolution theory.'' London : E. Arnold & co. | ||
* | * (1936) ''Man: a special creation.'' London: Thynne. | ||
* | * (1938) ''More Difficulties of the Evolution Theory.'' London: Thynne. | ||
* | * (1944) ''[https://archive.org/details/ObsessionsOfBiologists Obsessions Of Biologists]''. Evolution Protest Movement. | ||
* | * (1947) [https://archive.org/details/isevolutionprove029195mbp ''Is evolution proved? A debate between Douglas Dewar and H.S. Shelton.''] With an introd. by the editor, Arnold Lunn. London: Hollis and Carter with [[H.S. Shelton]] and [[Arnold Lunn]] | ||
* | * (1949) ''Is evolution a myth? : a debate between Douglas Dewar, [[L. Merson Davies]] and [[J.B.S. Haldane]],'' London: C.A. Watts/Paternoster Press. | ||
* | * (1957) ''The Transformist Illusion.'' Murfreesboro, Tennessee: Dehoff Publications | ||
==References== | ==References== | ||