Edgar Andrews

After completing a BSc degree in theoretical physics at the University of London in 1953, Andrews obtained a PhD in applied physics in 1960 (more specific: solid-state physics) and a DSc (higher doctorate) in physics in 1968.[https://archive.org/details/debrettspeopleof0000unse_p4k9/page/34/mode/2up Debrett's People of Today]. This edition can be freely viewed online.

He is a Fellow of the Institute of Physics (FInstP), Fellow of the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining (FIMMM), Chartered Engineer (CEng, UK) and Chartered Physicist (CPhys).

Andrews is also an international expert on the science of polymers (large molecules).

From 1953 to 1955, Andrews was a technical officer at Imperial Chemical Industries Ltd., Welwyn Garden City. From 1955 to 1963 he was a senior physicist at the Natural Rubber Producers' Research Association, also in Welwyn. From 1963 to 1968 he was a reader in materials science. In 1967 he set up[https://www.sems.qmul.ac.uk/materials50/timeline/ Materials 50 Timeline][https://www.sems.qmul.ac.uk/materials50/ 50 Years of Materials at Queen Mary - Founder, Edgar Andrews] the Department of Materials at Queen Mary College, University of London, and served both as its head (from 1986 to 1980)[https://www.sems.qmul.ac.uk/materials50/headsofmaterials/ Materials 50: Heads of Materials] and as Dean of Engineering (1971–1974). From 1968 to 1998 he was professor of materials at Queen Mary and Westfield College.[https://archive.org/details/debrettspeopleof0000unse_p4k9/page/34/mode/2up Debrett's People of Today]. This edition can be freely viewed online.

Besides his work at the university, he was also a director of: QMC Industrial Research London (1970–1988), Denbyware PLC (1971–1981, non-executive director), Materials Technology Consultants Ltd (1974–present), Evangelical Press (1975–2004) and Fire and Materials Ltd (1985–1988). For five years he was a member of the scientific advisory board of Neste Oy, the national oil company of Finland (which later sold its chemical division and became Neste Oil). He was and remains the first president of the Biblical Creation Society, and was editor of Evangelical Times (1998–2008).[https://archive.org/details/debrettspeopleof0000unse_p4k9/page/34/mode/2up Debrett's People of Today]. This edition can be freely viewed online.

Andrews was an international consultant to the Dow Chemical Company (US) for over thirty years and to the 3M Company (US) for twenty years. He also 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.{{cite web|url=http://www.christianity.com/home/christian%20living%20features/11636300/page3/ |title=An Interview with Who Made God? author, Edgar H. Andrews |publisher=Christianity.com|date= August 2010 |access-date=7 January 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120303215513/http://www.christianity.com/home/christian%20living%20features/11636300/page3/ |archive-date=3 March 2012}}

He has published over 100 scientific research papers and books, together with two Bible commentaries and various works on science and religion and on theology. His book From Nothing to Nature has been translated into ten languages.

In 1987 he co-founded the Campus Church in Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire, which is now called Garden City Church.[https://gardencitychurch.org.uk/ Garden City Church] He serves there as an elder.

On 28–30 September 1972, Andrews was one of four speakers invited to address an international audience of over 400 scientists at the Michigan Molecular Institute's Dedication Symposium, along with Nobel Laureates Paul J. Flory and Melvin Calvin, and Donald Lyman.Andrews refers to this on page 197 in his book Who made God? The four papers presented were later published in H. G. Elias's Trends in Macromolecular Science (Midland Macromolecular Monographs, vol. 1, Gordon & Breach, New York / London, 1973) and in Angewandte Chemie (Intern. Ed. 1974, vol. 13, nr. 2). The article in Angewandte Chemie can be [http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/anie.197401131/abstract read here].

Several of his research articles have appeared in the Proceedings of the Royal Society.[https://royalsocietypublishing.org/action/doSearch?ContribAuthorRaw=Andrews%2C+E+H Articles published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society]

In 1977 Andrews was awarded the A. A. Griffith Medal and Prize by the Materials Science Club for contributions to materials science.[https://www.sems.qmul.ac.uk/news/4625/prof-nicola-pugno-is-awarded-the-griffith-medal-of-the-iom3 Edgar Andrews is mentioned in the text as having received the medal in 1977]

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, 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".{{cite book

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| title = The Creationists: From Scientific Creationism to Intelligent Design, Expanded Edition

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}} However, on page 106 of his latest book Who made God?, Andrews notes – citing from his earlier work From nothing to Nature (chapter 9) – that he believes the whole universe, including the earth, was created ex-nihilo in verse 1, 'with no reference to how long ago that happened'. From verse 2 onward 'the account concentrates squarely on the earth itself'. Andrews follows E. J. Young in seeing Genesis 1:1 as describing the creation of the whole universe including the earth, with verse 2 onwards relating to the population of an 'old' earth with young features (both geographical and biological). Young Biosphere creationists hold to this model.{{citation needed|date=July 2023}} He is a signer of A Scientific Dissent from Darwinism.{{cite web |title=A Scientific Dissent from Darwinism |url=https://www.discovery.org/m/securepdfs/2023/05/Scientific-Dissent-List-05012023-2.pdf |publisher=Discovery Institute |access-date=27 December 2024}}

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'. The proposer of the motion was A. E. Wilder-Smith. The opposers, Dawkins and John Maynard Smith, won the debate by 198 votes to 115.John Durant, "Critical-Historical Perspective on the Argument about Evolution and Creation", in Evolution and Creation: A European Perspective (eds. Sven Anderson, Arthus Peacocke), Aarhus University Press, Aarhus, Denmark. {{ISBN|978-8772881140}}

• 1963 – Chemistry and Physics of Rubberlike Substances – co-author. Editor: Leslie Bateman, then director of the Natural Rubber Producers' Research Association (where Andrews was a senior physicist), Welwyn Garden City, UK (London, Maclaren; New York, Wiley). {{ISBN|978-0853340607}}
• 1968 – [https://books.google.com/books/about/Fracture_in_polymers.html?id=ANZRAAAAMAAJ Fracture in Polymers]. A monograph.
• 1971 – [http://old.iupac.org/publications/pac/1972/pdf/3101x0091.pdf The influence of morphology on the mechanical properties of crystalline polymers]. Publication: London: Queen Mary College, Faculty of Engineering.
• 1971 – [http://rspa.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/327/1569/251.short Deformation of Irradiated Single Crystals of Polyethylene] – in collaboration with I. G. Voigt-Martin. Publication: London: Queen Mary College, Faculty of Engineering. Also published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society.
• 1971 – Solvent Stress Cracking and Crazing in Polymeric Glasses – Final Report (part 1 & 2 published in 1971, part 3 published in 1972) – co-authored with G. M. Levy and J. Willis. Publication: London: Queen Mary College, Faculty of Engineering.
• 1978 – [https://doi.org/10.1007%2F3-540-08829-6_1 Molecular Fracture in Polymers] – co-author.
• 1979 – Developments in Polymer Fracture. {{ISBN|978-0853348191}}
• 1980 – God, Science and Evolution. [out of print]
• 1984 – [http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v312/n5993/pdf/312396a0.pdf Creationism in confusion?] Correspondence letter in Nature. A response to this article: [http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v311/n5988/pdf/311703a0.pdf Evolution: Creationism in confusion]
• 1989 – From Nothing to Nature – A Basic Guide to Evolution and Creation. Translated in ten languages (as at 2012). {{ISBN|978-0852341209}}
• 1994 – Christ and the Cosmos. {{ISBN|978-0852342206}}
• 1996 – Free in Christ, the message of Galatians. {{ISBN|978-0852343531}}
• 2003 – A Glorious High Throne, Hebrews Simply Explained. {{ISBN|978-0852345474}}
• 2009 – [https://web.archive.org/web/20120731045023/http://whomadegod.org/ Who made God? Searching for a Theory of Everything]. {{ISBN|978-0852347638}}
• 2018 - [http://whatisman.org What is Man? Adam, alien or ape?]. {{ISBN|978-1-595556844}}

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