Geoffrey Simmons (born 28 July 1943) is a medical doctor, science fiction author and proponent of

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from

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. He has a BS in biology from the

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and received an M.D. from the

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in 1969. He was a doctor of internal medicine for the

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in Eugene, boarded in internal medicine and

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. Dr. Simmons retired at the end of 2015.

Biography

Born in

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, in 1943, Simmons is a fellow at the

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, part of the

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. He toured with PSSI in Spain with the Spanish version of ''What Darwin Didn't Know'', to five cities:

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, León and

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, nine lectures altogether. He has lectured at college campuses, churches and synagogues. Simmons also teaches disaster preparedness locally, regionally and nationally. He is a Governor on the Board of Governors for the American Academy of Disaster Medicine and an Advisor to FEMA on the Advisory Council for FEMA Region X. He is a CERT trainer and volunteer CERT Coordinator for the City of Eugene. He has lectured at the IAEM and NASA. His newest book Common Sense and Disaster Preparedness will be published by the Journal of Emergency Management (JEM), Fall 2010.

Intelligent design

Simmons has written nine books, four fiction, two medical spoofs, and two books about the

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, published by a Christian publishing house and promotes the pseudoscience of intelligent design. In 2008, he debated evolutionary biologist

PZ Myers Paul Zachary Myers (born March 9, 1957) is an American biologist who founded and writes the ''Pharyngula'' science-blog. He is associate professor of biology at the University of Minnesota Morris (UMM)

, among many professors, on KKMS radio. He has done other radio interviews, such as on

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in 2007

Works

*''The Glue Factory''. (Beckett Publishing Company, November 1, 1995) (Illustrated by Ray Broderick) *''What Darwin Didn't Know: A Doctor Dissects the Theory of Evolution ''. (Harvest Publishers, January 1, 2004) (Foreword by

William Dembski William Albert Dembski (born July 18, 1960) is an American mathematician, philosopher and theologian. He was a proponent of intelligent design (ID) pseudoscience, specifically the concept of specified complexity, and was a senior fellow of the ...

) *''Billions of Missing Links: A Rational Look at the Mysteries Evolution Can't Explain''. (Harvest House Publishers, February 15, 2007) *''Common Sense and Disaster Preparedness'', Journal of Emergency Management, Fall 2010

Fiction

* ''The Z Papers'', Arbor House and Bantam, 1970s * ''The Adam Experiment'', Arbor House and Berkley, 1970s * ''Pandemic'', Arbor House and Berkley, 1980s. * ''MURDOCK'', Arbor House, 1980s * ''The Glue Factory factor'', Beckett, 1990s * ''To Glue or Not To Glue''. Beckett, 1990s

References

External links

Geoffrey Simmons
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Are Darwin's Theories Fact or Faith Issues?
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