Dean H. Kenyon

Who is Dean H. Kenyon?

Dean H. Kenyon is Professor Emeritus of Biology at San Francisco State University and an intelligent design proponent. He is the author of Biochemical Predestination, as well as of Of Pandas and People, a controversial book on intelligent design.

He became a creationist around 1976, and gave testimony defending creation science at the McLean vs. Arkansas and Edwards v. Aguillard court cases. During the latter case he co-authored the creation science supplementary textbook Of Pandas and People. The case decision went against teaching creation science in public schools, and the authors then altered all references to creationism to refer to intelligent design before the book was published in 1989. He subsequently became a Fellow of the Discovery Institute, and continued to endorse young Earth creationism.