Thomas E. Woodward is a research professor and department chair of the theology department at Trinity College of Florida/Dallas Theological Seminary (Tampa Bay Extension)

Dallas Theological Seminary

Dallas Theological Seminary is an evangelical theological seminary located in Dallas, Texas. It is known for popularizing the theological system known as Dispensationalism...

 and a prominent Christian

Christian

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 apologist.

Biography

Woodward has published works defending intelligent design

Intelligent design

Intelligent design is the proposition that "certain features of the universe and of living things are best explained by an intelligent cause, not an undirected process such as natural selection." It is a form of creationism and a contemporary adaptation of the traditional teleological argument for...

 and refuting Darwin

Charles Darwin

Charles Robert Darwin FRS was an English naturalist. He established that all species of life have descended over time from common ancestry, and proposed the scientific theory that this branching pattern of evolution resulted from a process that he called natural selection.He published his theory...

's theory of evolution

Evolution

Evolution is any change across successive generations in the heritable characteristics of biological populations. Evolutionary processes give rise to diversity at every level of biological organisation, including species, individual organisms and molecules such as DNA and proteins.Life on Earth...

. Since 1988, he has been (Florida)director of Trinity College's

Trinity College (Florida)

Trinity College is a evangelical interdenominational Bible college located in New Port Richey in Pasco County, Florida. It is a private college....

 Center for University Ministries (CFUM). Woodward has maintained an evangelical teaching and discipleship ministry and been head of the C.S.Lewis Society, which is housed at Trinity College. Woodward did his doctoral work in the Department of Communication of the University of South Florida

University of South Florida

The University of South Florida, also known as USF, is a member institution of the State University System of Florida, one of the state's three flagship universities for public research, and is located in Tampa, Florida, USA...

. His thesis, a history of the Intelligent Design movement, was published by Baker Books as "Doubts About Darwin" in 2003. His second book "Darwin Strikes Back," was released in 2006.

Prior to this, Woodward served with UFM International ("Unevangelized Field Mission International", a missionary organization now known as Crossworld

Crossworld

CrossWorld is an international evangelical Christian outreach organization, with over 400 member missionaries organized into over 80 teams in 25 regions around the world.-Purpose:...

) in the Dominican Republic

Dominican Republic

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. Woodward has a B.A. in History awarded by Princeton University

Princeton University

Princeton University is a private research university located in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. The school is one of the eight universities of the Ivy League, and is one of the nine Colonial Colleges founded before the American Revolution....

 and a Th. M. in Systematic Theology from the Dallas Theological Seminary. In the fall of 2006 and the spring of 2007, Woodward was adjunct faculty at the Tampa extension of the Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary

Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary

Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary is a seminary of the Southern Baptist Convention , created to meet a need in the SBC's East Coast region. It was voted into existence on May 19, 1950 at the SBC annual meeting and began offering classes in the fall of 1951 on the original campus of Wake...

 of Wake Forest

Wake Forest, North Carolina

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, North Carolina

North Carolina

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. He taught classes in "Salvation and Religious Pluralism" and "Eschatology".

Books

• Doubts about Darwin: A History of Intelligent Design, Thomas Woodward, Baker Books, June 2003, ISBN 0801064430
• Darwin Strikes Back: Defending the Science of Intelligent Design, Thomas Woodward, Baker Books, November 1, 2006, ISBN 0801065631

Articles

• Were the Darwinists Wrong? National Geographic stacks the deck, Thomas E. Woodward, ChristianityToday, November 1, 2004

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