Richard Milton

Richard Milton (born 1943) is a British journalist and amateur archaeologist. An engineer by training,

His first book, The Facts of Life: Shattering the Myths of Darwinism (1993), is a non-religious creationist attack on evolutionary biology, following the arguments of "creation science". It has been met with intense criticism from many mainstream academic reviewers. In the New Statesman, Oxford evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins described it as "twaddle that betrays, on almost every page, complete and total pig-ignorance of the subject at hand", characterising its central thesis as being as silly as "a claim that the Romans never existed and the Latin language is a cunning Victorian fabrication to keep schoolmasters employed". In a review in Third Way, Douglas Spanner, while suggesting that the book should be taken seriously by orthodox Darwinism, is dubious about Milton's attempts to dispute traditional methods of estimating the Earth's age and says, "on matters of biological importance he can be off-course at times".

Reviewing Milton's second book, Forbidden Science: Suppressed Research That Could Change Our Lives (1996) in New Scientist, Harry Collins was generally positive about much of the book but criticised Milton's failure to "draw a line between what might be worth a shot and what is simply daft":

Milton's claims have been criticised as pseudoscience by philosophy professor Robert Carroll. Milton appeared on The Mysterious Origins of Man, a television special arguing that mankind has lived on Earth for tens of millions of years and that mainstream scientists have suppressed supporting evidence.

His claims on the age of mankind have also been criticised for scientific inaccuracy.

Publications Nonfiction

published as Il Mystero Della Vita, Editoriale Armenia, 1993 (Italy) published by Sinkosha Publishing, 1995 (Japan) published as O Mythos tou Darwinismou 1996 (Greece), Park Street Press, 1997 (US Hardback, US Paperback)

published as Verbotene Wissenschaften, Zweitausendeins, 1996 (Germany) republished as Verbotene Wissenschaften, Kopp Verlag, 2014 (Germany)

Fiction