Dean H. Kenyon

Dean H. Kenyon (born 1939) is an American biophysicist and professor emeritus of biology at San Francisco State University. He is a young Earth creationist and one of the instigators of the intelligent design movement. He is the author of the 1969 book Biochemical Predestination.

Kenyon became a creationist around 1976, and gave testimony defending creation science during the court cases McLean v. Arkansas and Edwards v. Aguillard. During the latter case, he co-authored the creation science supplementary textbook Of Pandas and People. The case decision went against teaching creation science in public schools, and the authors then altered all references to creationism to refer to intelligent design before the book was published in 1989. He subsequently became a fellow of the Discovery Institute, and continued to endorse young Earth creationism.