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for the record, John Davison WAS a professor of biology at, IIRC, the University of Vermont (Maryland).

Somewhere in the mid-late 80's, a mental breakdown of sorts ensued (evidence suggests the loss of a close family member was the triger), and UVM gradually distanced themselves from him, eventually removing him from teaching duties.

Since then, he has run for mayor (no shit!), been booted from just about every public blog in existence, and continued to paint himself into an ever smaller corner.

His biggest claim to fame was his "prescribed evolutionary hypothesis" as written in his "Evolutionary Manifesto".

http://www.uvm.edu/~jdavison/davison-manifesto.html

which at first attracted the attention of ID "luminaries" like Dembski over at Uncommonly Dense, and IIRC, they even helped him publish some version of it in "Rivista di Biologia", but was soon abandoned by those loons as too loony, even for them.

In fact, the only place it gets high marks is on crank.net:

http://www.crank.net/evolution.html

where is garners the highest honor of "crankiest" in category.

John IS insane, and as such deserves a bit of pity. That said, for your own sanity, you're far better off not even attempting to engage him directly.

thought you might want to know, from someone who engaged him years ago when he first appeared on Panda's Thumb.