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William E. Evenson

William E. Evenson is Associate Dean and Professor of Physics at Utah Valley State College and Professor Emeritus of Brigham Young University. Dr. Evenson is a Fellow of the American Physics Society. He earned a PhD in theoretical physics at Iowa State University and a BS in physics at BYU. He is the author of “Evolution,” in Encyclopedia of Mormonism, ed. Daniel H. Ludlow, 4 vols. (New York: Macmillan, 1992), 2:478; “LDS Doctrine and the Theory of Evolution,” in Can Science Be Faith Promoting? by Sterling B. Talmage, ed. Stan Larson; and “Science: The Universe, Creation, and Evolution,” in The Truth, the Way, the Life, by B. H. Roberts, ed. John W. Welch, 2d ed. (Provo, Utah: BYU Studies, 1996). Dr. Evenson served on the BYU Studies advisory board for many years.