Philip Stott
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Philip Stott
was born in England in 1943. After matriculating at Bridlington Grammar School
he studied at Manchester University, where he obtained B.Sc. (with honours) and
M. Sc. degrees in Civil Engineering. He lectured at universities in Nigeria and
South Africa and carried out research in the analysis of geometrically
non-linear structures. He shared the Henry Adams award for outstanding research
in 1969. While lecturing at the University of the Witwatersrand he studied
Biology. After leaving Wits he joined an engineering consulting firm as
associate in charge of computing. His ongoing interest in all aspects of science
led to studies in Mathematics and Astronomy with the University of South Africa,
and later to four years of part time research with the Applied Mathematics
department of the University of the Orange Free State.
After many years as a firm atheist he was converted to Christianity in 1976.
Following several years of studying the conflicting claims of secular science
and scripture he actively entered the Creation/Evolution debate in 1989, while
teaching Mathematics and Science at a mission station in Natal. He gave
lectures on the science/scripture controversy throughout South Africa and
Namibia. In 1992 he was invited to address a conference in Russia and since then
he has lectured, addressed conferences and taken part in debates in Eastern and
Western Europe, America, Canada and Southern Africa. Venues have included the
European Centre for Nuclear Research (CERN), a UNESCO International Conference
on the Teaching of Physics and the Russian Academy of Sciences.
Philip Stott is married to Margaret (born Lloyd), has two children, Robert and
Angela, and two grandchildren, Sean and Julie. He lives in Bloemfontein, the
capital of the Free State, South Africa.
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