Matt Young
Matt Young, PhD, Author, scientist
Matt Young is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Physics at the Colorado School
of Mines in Golden, Colorado.
He is a coeditor of the book, Why Intelligent Design Fails: A Scientific Critique of the New Creationism,
and the author of three other books. He has published approximately 100 scientific and technical publications
and reports. Until 1999, he was a Physicist with the National Institute of Standards and Technology in Boulder,
Colorado, and before then held positions at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, the Weizmann Institute of Science,
and elsewhere.
He has been awarded both the gold and silver medals of the Department of Commerce for his work in optical communications. Dr. Young is a Fellow of the Optical Society of America, President of Colorado Citizens for Science, and Senior Fellow of the Jefferson Center for Science and Religion.
His latest project is a college-level book on why evolution succeeds and creationism fails, for Rutgers University Press. He is available by e-mail for media interviews and presentations to schools, groups, or organizations. www.mines.edu/~mmyoung.