13 Facts About Edgar Andrews

Edgar Harold Andrews was born on 16 December 1932 and is an English physicist and engineer known for his creationist views.

Edgar Andrews is emeritus professor of materials at Queen Mary, University of London.

Edgar Andrews is a Fellow of the Institute of Physics, Fellow of the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining, Chartered Engineer and Chartered Physicist.

Edgar Andrews is an international expert on the science of polymers.

From 1953 to 1955, Edgar Andrews was a technical officer at Imperial Chemical Industries Ltd.

Edgar Andrews was and remains the first president of the Biblical Creation Society, and was editor of Evangelical Times.

Edgar Andrews was an international consultant to the Dow Chemical Company for over thirty years and to the 3M Company for twenty years.

Edgar Andrews acted for many years as an expert scientific witness in a variety of cases in the British High Court and in courts in the US and Canada.

Edgar Andrews has published over 100 scientific research papers and books, together with two Bible commentaries and various works on science and religion and on theology.

Edgar Andrews is described by historian of creationism Ronald Numbers as the United Kingdom's "most respected creationist scientist of the late twentieth century", a Reformed Baptist, and a convert to Whitcomb and Morris' flood geology since the 1960s.

However, Edgar Andrews rejected some elements of the latter, particularly dogmatic acceptance of a young Earth, even going so far as to suggest that the first day of creation "might be of indefinite length".

Edgar Andrews is a signer of A Scientific Dissent from Darwinism.

Edgar Andrews was invited by the Oxford Union Society to take part in the Huxley Memorial Debate on 16 February 1986, where he debated opposite Richard Dawkins on the motion 'That the doctrine of creation is more valid than the theory of evolution'.