John Umana

John Umana was born at East 106th Street, New York to a military family. As a young student, he was a National Science Foundation scholar in physiology. He earned his Ph.D. in philosophy and J.D. from the University of Michigan, where he was awarded the prestigious Kent Fellowship by the Danforth Foundation, and was an acclaimed author and editor of the Michigan Law Review. For more than 30 years, he has practiced law in Washington, D.C. in national law firms and also established his own firm. In 2005, he authored "Creation: Towards a Theory of All Things," proposing a new theory of biological evolution. Legal Times has described him as "a leading proponent of intelligent design." In fact, he is both a proponent of biological evolution (i.e., common ancestry) and an intelligent design theorist. Biological evolution is real and is proved by the convergence of the sciences, but Wallace's and Darwin's 'natural selection' and random mutations do not account for the origin of species, he argues. His theory predicts that in the solar system only Earth has ever harbored life; that is why the Mars Rovers and other spacecraft have detected no life on the Red Planet. Yet, the universe, 13.7 billion years old, is teeming with living worlds and with intelligent life.