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Michael Ruse was born on 21 June, 1940 in Birmingham, England, is a Canadian philosopher of science (born 1940). Discover Michael Ruse's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 83 years old?

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Born 21 June 1940
Birthday 21 June
Birthplace Birmingham, England
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1940

Michael Ruse (born 21 June 1940) is a British-born Canadian philosopher of science who specializes in the philosophy of biology and works on the relationship between science and religion, the creation–evolution controversy, and the demarcation problem within science.

Ruse currently teaches at Florida State University.

Ruse was born in Birmingham, England, attending Bootham School, York.

1962

He took his undergraduate degree at the University of Bristol (1962), his master's degree at McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario (1964), and Ph.D. at the University of Bristol (1970).

Ruse taught at the University of Guelph in Ontario, Canada for 35 years.

1981

Ruse was a key witness for the plaintiff in the 1981 test case (McLean v. Arkansas) of the state law permitting the teaching of "creation science" in the Arkansas school system.

The federal judge ruled that the state law was unconstitutional.

1985

Ruse has two children from his first marriage, and has been married to his second wife since 1985, with whom he has three children.

Ruse is an atheist.

He rejects the New Atheism movement.

1986

In 1986, he was elected as a Fellow of both the Royal Society of Canada and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

1990

He has received honorary doctorates from the University of Bergen, Norway (1990), McMaster University, Ontario, Canada (2003) and the University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada (2007).

1996

His 1996 book on the idea of progress in biology (orthogenesis), Monad to Man, had a mixed reception from other philosophers of biology.

Peter J. Bowler described it as an important and controversial book on the status of evolutionism.

Ron Amundson called Ruse an analytic and empiricist philosopher, but found Ruse's handling of structuralism "less satisfactory" than of the adaptationist, Darwinian traditions.

He called Ruse's writing style "bluff, unselfconscious, and opinionated" and finds Ruse sarcastic, "scarcely a neutral observer".

Michael Ghiselin criticised Ruse as a "politically correct" "academic bigot", disagreed with Ruse's narrative about phylogenetics, and accused him of "completely ignor[ing] recent work such as by Carl Woese, "neglect[ing] data" that contradict his thesis. Ironically, in Ghiselin's view, Ruse's own epistemological ideal for science relied on the idea of Progress.

2000

Since his retirement from Guelph, he has taught at Florida State University and is the Lucyle T. Werkmeister Professor of Philosophy (2000–present).

2001

Ruse delivered some of the 2001 Gifford Lectures in Natural Theology at the University of Glasgow.

2003

His lectures on Evolutionary Naturalism, "A Darwinian Understanding of Epistemology" and "A Darwinian Understanding of Ethics," are collected in The Nature and Limits of Human Understanding (ed. Anthony Sanford, T & T Clark, 2003).

Ruse debates regularly with William A. Dembski, a proponent of intelligent design.

Ruse takes the position that it is possible to reconcile the Christian faith with evolutionary theory.

Ruse founded the journal Biology and Philosophy, of which he is now Emeritus Editor, and has published numerous books and articles.

He cites the influence of his late colleague Ernan McMullin.

2009

According to Ruse in 2009, "Richard Dawkins, in his best selling The God Delusion, likens me to Neville Chamberlain, the pusillanimous appeaser of Hitler at Munich. Jerry Coyne reviewed one of my books (Can a Darwinian be a Christian?) using the Orwellian quote that only an intellectual could believe the nonsense I believe in. And non-stop blogger P. Z. Myers has referred to me as a 'clueless gobshite.'" Ruse said new atheists do the side of science a "grave disservice", a "disservice to scholarship", and that "Dawkins in The God Delusion would fail any introductory philosophy or religion course", and that The God Delusion makes him "ashamed to be an atheist".

Ruse concluded, saying "I am proud to be the focus of the invective of the new atheists. They are a bloody disaster".

2013

Since 2013, Ruse has been listed on the Advisory Council of the National Center for Science Education.

2014

In September 2014 he was made an Honorary Doctor of Science by University College London.

In 2014, Ruse was named the Bertrand Russell Society's award winner for his dedication to science and reason.

Ruse has sought to reconcile science and religion, a position which has brought him into conflict with Richard Dawkins and Pharyngula science blogger PZ Myers.

Ruse has engaged in heated exchanges with new atheists.