Mark perakh biography

Perakh taught physics, researched superconductivity, and wrote some 300 scientific papers, but his fame particularly comes from his writing about science and.
Perakh was born (as Mark Yakovlevich Popereka) on November 2, 1924, in Kiev, Ukraine.
Mark Perakh, was a professor emeritus of Mathematics and statistical mechanics at California State University, Fullerton in Fullerton, California.

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Review of Mark Perakh’s “Unintelligent Design,” by David J. Turell

Metanexus Anthropos. 2004.12.08. 1,260 words.

David J. Turell here reviews Unintelligent Design, by Mark Perakh, EmeritusProfessor of Physics at California State University, Fullerton. According toTurell, “Unintelligent Design is a full-frontal assault on the writings of abroad group of well-known writers whom Perakh feels are creationists. The bookis primarily a point-by-point ‘scientific’ refutation of the assertions in thosebooks. Well-known authors include Michael Behe, William Dembski and GeraldSchroeder, whose book, The Hidden Face of God, was recently reviewed herefavorably. Despite its aggressive tone and style Unintelligent Design is animportant addition to the science and religion debate. Those interested in thefield should read it.”

Dr. David J. Turell, a retired physician, lives on a paint horse breeding ranchin Texas with his wife, Susan. Born in Brooklyn, N.Y., he practiced InternalMedicine in Houston, Texas for over 30 years. Originally an agnostic, his

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Mark Perakh and the Voynich Manuscript

I was deeply saddened this week to find out that Mark Perakh died last year, on 7th May 2013 in Escondido, Calfornia. He wrote with such vitality I never even stopped to consider his age: but he was in fact 88.

Perakh’s was a life of three professorial acts: first in Russia, then in Israel, and then finally in America. It seems that Perakh was goaded most frequently into action by a drive to resist that which he considered false knowledge – for him, dissenting sincerely meant fighting.

In recent decades, the things that goaded him to greatest action were the grand pseudoscience and pseudohistory constructions of fundamentalist Christian literalism: specifically, the Bible Codes (don’t get me started on that, or I’ll be typing all night) and literal Creationism. His book “Unintelligent Design” surely forms as good a sustained counterargument as needs to be written to the pro-creationist arguments of William Dembski et al.

Back in the world of cipher mysteries, for a short while Perakh brought his

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Mark Perakh dies

Mark Perakh

The physicist Mark Perakh, a notable critic of creationism, died on May 7, 2013, at the age of 88, according to The Panda's Thumb blog (May 12, 2013). After a distinguished academic career in three countries, Perakh turned, in his retirement, to investigating the claims of religiously motivated pseudoscience, beginning with the Bible Code and then focusing on creationism. Among the products of his work were his book Unintelligent Design (Prometheus Books, 2003), two chapters ("There is a free lunch after all: William Dembski's wrong answers to irrelevant questions" and, with Matt Young, "Is intelligent design science?") in Matt Young and Taner Edis's collection Why Intelligent Design Fails (Rutgers University Press, 2004), and reviews and articles in such venues as Skeptic, Skeptical Inquirer, Reports of the NCSE, The Panda's Thumb, and the Talk.Reason website, of which he was a founder and editor.

Unintelligent Design was widely praised, with the reviewer for the Quarterly Review of Biology describing it as "an incisive, rigorous,