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= Articles reporting on Brand is some detail. =

Kuban Source: Neufeld, Brand and Chadwick, the Man Tracks Controversy
Brand received his doctorate from Cornell University in 1970 while working for Loma Linda University's La Sierra campus. That same same year, he was part of a creationist team from Loma Linda University which studied the Paluxy tracks. Berney Neufeld, Brand and Art Chadwick concluded that the tracks did not provide valid evidence for the coexistence of humans and dinosaurs.

Here is the section by Kuban:

Draganits et al, India
Draganits et al do more than merely cite Brand, they present a paragraph describing his work and finish by saying that Brand's work provides an analogue by which to do further research.

=Chipmunks=

Between 1970 and 1987, Brand reported on the tree nests and vocalisations of California chipmunks.

=Basic Outline= (Please do not change this. Use the comments sub-section below this.)

Leonard R. Brand

I. Lead

II. Early life

III. Career development at Loma Linda University

IV. Scientific Research

V. Young Earth Creationist

VI. Philosophy of Science

VII. Inter-Relationships


 * 1. The scientific community


 * 2. The creationist community


 * 3. The Seventh-day Adventist community

Outline Comments
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Annotated Bibliography
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Leonard R. Brand
Our intention is to present Leonard R. Brand, not as a notable academic, but as an interesting and unusual person. The articles seek to be biographical.

Current text
Leonard Brand is a young earth creationist, zoologist and paleobiologist. He is the Chair Professor of Loma Linda University Department of Earth and Biological Sciences.

As a Creationist, he champions interventionism, a view of history holds that there is intelligent intervention in history. His philosophical notion of respectful dialogue has been welcomed by advocates on both sides of the creation–evolution controversy. He challenges his fellow creationists to use caution when making scientific claims.

As a research scientist, he has had his findings published in various peer-reviewed journals. He has studied the vocalizations of chipmunks, the reproductive biology of mice, and the taphonomy of whales in Peru and turtles in Wyoming. His research on fossil tracks in the Grand Canyon has been published in Geology, but his conclusions have been challenged by some critics.

Comments on the Annotations

 * The Creation Sabbath citation format has been corrected. The main site has been corrected as well. DonaldRichardSands (talk) 05:09, 18 August 2011 (UTC)
 * Pfandl, an associate of the SDA General Conference's Biblical Research Institute, quotes from Brand's book, Faith, Reason and Earth's history. He writes:


 * An older edition of the Numbers book is online. DonaldRichardSands (talk) 11:22, 18 August 2011 (UTC)

Current text
==Biography== (Is the no wiki used correctly?)

Leonard Brand has been a member of the Seventh-day Adventist Church since his early teens. He was baptized in 1952 while living in Kansas.

In 1964, as a senior biology student at La Sierra College, he received a $50 book scholarship from a scholarship fund established by Riverside naturalist and author Edmund C. Jaeger. He was one of only two students to receive the award in that first year it was offered.

Brand received his doctorate from Cornell University in 1970 while working for Loma Linda University's La Sierra campus. That same same year, he was part of a creationist team from Loma Linda University which studied the Paluxy tracks. Berney Neufeld, Brand and Art Chadwick concluded that the tracks did not provide valid evidence for the coexistence of humans and dinosaurs.

Comments on the Annotations
All four of the citations in this section are secondary sources. Three are affiliated with the Seventh-day Adventist Church which is Brand's affiliation. The facts given are not disputed. DonaldRichardSands (talk) 12:51, 18 August 2011 (UTC)
 * Re: the citation for his Cornell PhD degree has many non-Adventist usable sources. Let's find one. DonaldRichardSands (talk) 12:57, 18 August 2011 (UTC)


 * Comment of Section Quality
 * This section needs lots of work. DonaldRichardSands (talk) 12:57, 18 August 2011 (UTC)

Current text
None for this, yet.

Annotations for YEC
Seventh-day Adventist theologian Fritz Guy (1989) describes the scientific difficulties creationists face. He cites Leonard Brand as admitting the problem,

Comments on the Annotations
This Guy quote is a third party source documenting Brand's practice of admitting to scientific difficulties. This quote could be used in the Philosophy of Science section of the main article. Spectrum, independent from SDA organizational control tracks Adventist issues and reports on them in a scholarly manner.