Walter Frederick Brown (born July 28, 1926) is an American politician and was the presidential candidate of the Socialist Party USA in the 2004 elections. A Democratic member of the Oregon State Senate from 1974 to 1986, Brown later became affiliated with the Socialist Party USA. Brown also served as a party candidate for the U.S. Congress in 1998, 2000 and 2002.
Walt Brown (December 30, 1911 - died July 29, 1951 Williams Grove, Pennsylvania) was an American racecar driver. He was killed in a racing accident.
Walter T. Brown is an American engineer and young earth creationist (YEC), who is the director of his own ministry called the Center for Scientific Creation. Brown has a Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He also served in the US military, from which he retired in 1980.
Brown wrote In the Beginning: Compelling Evidence for Creation and the Flood, in which he claims to provide evidence against evolution and for creation science and flood geology (including hydroplates). It is divided into three sections, the first of which explores discoveries made by scientists that Brown says do not fit the theory of evolution. The second section outlines various alternate explanations to geological and astronomical subjects such as the mid-oceanic ridge and comets, which Brown asserts modern science cannot explain. The third and final section presents a variety of other questions encountered in the creation-evolution controversy.
Philosopher Robert T. Pennock describes Brown's position as being typical, other than the unique feature of his hydroplates hypothesis, of YECs in desiring to explain all major terrestrial features in terms of a catastrophic Biblical flood.
Walter Brown is briefly mentioned as one of the leaders of the creationism movement in The Skeptics Dictionary.
