Ok, let's start with Jerry Bergman. First of all, he is guilty of misrepresenting his educational credentials. He was denied tenure, and subsequently lost his job at Bowling Green State University because, in part, he claimed he "was a psychologist, but had no psychology credentials."
https://openjurist.org/820/f2d/1224/gerald-r-bergman-phd-v-bowling-green-state-university-et-al
Additionally, one of his claimed Ph.D.s is from a diploma mill
, Columbia Pacific University, which was court ordered to cease operations in 1997.
Further, Bergman is the author of some of the most heinous quote mines I've ever seen. Consider this:
Bergman claimed that C.S. Lewis was an anti-evolutionist creationist, and [mis]quotes him thusly:
What Lewis ACTUALLY said was this (with Bergman's omitted words in bold):
Bergman would have you believe that Lewis currently felt that evolution was less satisfactory than was hoped 50 years before that.
But that is not what he was saying. He was speculating that
maybe, 50 years in the future, future biologists might feel that way.
You really should read the following piece (it was published in Journal of Creation's letters to the editor, and relayed on creation.com):
https://creation.com/images/pdfs/tj/j29_1/j29_1_58-60.pdf
It really tells you all you need to know about Bergman's honesty (or lack thereof).
To be fair to creation.com, it appear's Bergman's article has been pulled from their site.
And it is a great example of religious discrimination is it not? The university made many false claims about him. See here
https://www.rae.org/essay-links/bergmantenure/
https://www.rae.org/essay-links/Walinski1/
Now if you think he is lying about his credentials, witch ones.
Jerry Bergman has taught biology, genetics, chemistry, biochemistry, anthropology, geology, and microbiology at Northwest State College in Archbold OH for over 25 years. He has 9 degrees, including 7 graduate (= ‘post-graduate’ in some non-US systems) degrees. Dr Bergman is a graduate of Medical College of Ohio, Wayne State University in Detroit, The University of Toledo, and Bowling Green State University. He has over 800 publications in 12 languages and 20 books and monographs. He has also taught at the Medical College of Ohio where he was a research associate in the department of experimental pathology, and he also taught 6 years at the University of Toledo, and 7 years at Bowing Green State University.
Among his books is a monograph on peer evaluation published by the College Student Journal Press, a Fastback on the creation-evolution controversy published by Phi Delta Kappa, a book on vestigial organs with Dr George Howe (
‘Vestigial Organs’ are Fully Functional), a book on psychology and religious cults, a book on religious discrimination published by Onesimus Press, and a book on mental health published by Claudius Verlag in München. He has also published a college textbook on evaluation (Boston, Houghton Mifflin Co.), and has contributed to dozens of other textbooks. He was also a consultant for over 20 science text books, mostly biology and biochemistry.
Dr Bergman has presented over one hundred scientific papers at professional and community meetings in the United States, Canada, and Europe. To discuss his research, he has been a featured speaker on many college campuses throughout the United States and Europe, and is a frequent guest on radio and television programs. His research has made the front page in newspapers throughout the country, has been featured by the Paul Harvey Show several times, and has been discussed by David Brinkley, Chuck Colson, and other nationally known commentators on national television.
His other work experience includes over ten years experience at various Mental Health/Psychology clinics as a licensed professional clinical counselor and three years full time corrections research for a large county circuit court in Michigan and inside the walls of Jackson Prison (SPSM), the largest walled prison in the world. He has also served as a consultant for CBS News, ABC News,
Reader’s Digest, Amnesty International, several government agencies and for two Nobel Prize winners, including the inventor of the transistor. In the past decade he has consulted or has testified as an expert witness or consultant in almost one-hundred court cases. A Fellow of the American Scientific Association, member of The National Association for the Advancement of Science, and many other professional associations, he is listed in
Who’s Who in America,
Who’s Who in the Midwest and in
Who’s Who in Science and Religion.
Education
- M.P.H., Northwest Ohio Consortium for Public Health (Medical College of Ohio, Toledo, Ohio; University of Toledo, Toledo, Ohio; Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio), 2001.
- M.S. in biomedical science, Medical College of Ohio, Toledo, Ohio, 1999.
- Ph.D. in human biology, Columbia Pacific University, San Rafael, California, 1992.
- M.A. in social psychology, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio, 1986.
- Ph.D. in measurement and evaluation, minor in psychology, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, 1976.
- M.Ed. in counseling and psychology, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, 1971.
- B.S., Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, 1970. Major area of study was sociology, biology, and psychology.
- A.A. in Biology and Behavioral Science, Oakland Community College, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, 1967.
Honors/awards/certifications
- Fellow of the American Scientific Affiliation, 1983
- Who's Who in America
- MENSA
- Ohio certification to teach both elementary and high school levels
Professional memberships
Dr Bergman is or was active in the following organizations:
- National Association for Gifted Children
- American Educational Research Association
- National Council on Measurement in Education
- American Sociological Association
- American Psychological Association
- Ohio Psychological Association
- Association for the Scientific Study of Religion
- American Association of Suicidology
- Institute of Religion and Health
- American Society of Corrections
The Professional Organizations that Dr Bergman is now a member of and/or involved in, include:
- Ohio Science Teachers Association.
- American Biology Teachers Association.
- The American Scientific Affiliation.
- The American Association for the Advancement of Science.
- The American Association for the History of Science
- American Chemical Society
- American Institute of Biological Sciences.
- Ohio Academy of Science
- American Institute of Chemists
- New York Academy of Sciences
- The New York Museum of Natural History
Other professional memberships
- Society for the Scientific Study of Male Psychology and Physiology, President and Founder
Radio, video tapes, and television shows
Dr Bergman has appeared on approximately 200 radio shows and 14 television shows for various Public Television and other stations. His research has been featured several times on the Paul Harvey Show, and once by David Brinkley.
CS Lewis
Yes this was brought up in the journal of creation [creationist peer
reviewed]
https://creation.com/images/pdfs/tj/j29_1/j29_1_58-60.pdf
Here was Bergmans response in that journal
https://creation.com/images/pdfs/tj/j29_1/j29_1_61-63.pdf
I have read his book and he spends a good deal of time defining evolution in the various ways Lewis used it and his changing opinions over time.
a sort relevant section
Lewis adds that we must sharply distinguish between “Evolution as a biological theorem and popular Evolutionism or Developmentalism which is certainly a Myth”. From the context it is apparent that by Evolutionism or Development
he means common ancestry, or what some would term macroevolution. By evolution, as I made clear, I mean Developmentalism (that which causes improvements), not evolution which causes small observable changes,
as Lewis defined the term. As to “What inclines me now to think that you may be right in regarding it [evolution] as the central and radical lie in the whole web of falsehood that now governs our lives is not so much your arguments against it as the fanatical and twisted attitudes of its defenders”, I do not find the differences he notes “significantly more tentative”, but trivial.
In my original paper I included the words Jay Wile italicized, but space constraints, as also apply to this response, required cutting the original paper wherever I could. Also, assuming Wile has a point in no way negates my conclusion...
The fact is Lewis wrote, “It may be shown, by later biologists, to be a less satisfactory hypothesis than was hoped fifty years ago”, which is not what Wile claimed: instead he claimed Lewis said, “He conjectured that perhaps some biologists in the future might conclude” that it may be a less satisfactory hypothesis than was hoped fifty years ago. This point is nit picking and
goes against much of what Lewis wrote. I cut it back in an effort to meet CMI’s word limit. The fact is Lewis wrote much about the ‘myth’ of Darwinism in his later writings, showing that his thinking developed well beyond his early speculations about evolution....
Lewis was
toward the end of his life a ‘creationist and anti-evolutionist’ a
s I have defined the terms in my forthcoming book.....
In his Funeral essay, Lewis makes it clear that he accepted microevolution, but not macroevolution. This is clear in his statement: “… it [evolution] tries to explain, say, how a species that once had wings came to lose them. It explains this by the negative effect of environment operating on small variations. It does not in itself explain the origin of organic life, nor of the variations, nor does it discuss the origin and validity of reason.”
