Christopher Schrader

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Christopher Schrader (* 1962 ) is a German science journalist and author.

Life

Schrader studied physics in Hamburg and New York City and graduated with a diploma. He was an editor at the Swiss news magazine Facts and at GEO Wissen as well as text editor for the (now discontinued) magazine SZ-Wissen. Today he is science editor at the Süddeutsche Zeitung . Schrader lives in Munich with his wife and three children .

He wrote the book Darwin's Work and God's Contribution (2007). In it he contrasts the arguments of the Christian fundamentalist movement of creationism and the concept of intelligent design with scientific arguments. Supported by lobby groups from the United States of America, followers of creationism, according to Schrader, systematically presented evolution as incomplete in order to be able to prove the sole claim of their religious conception.

Award

In 2006, Schrader was awarded the PUNKT prize for technical journalism . In 2019 he received the UMSICHT science award for a publication on the ecological balance of e-mobility.

book

  • Darwin's Work and God's Contribution. Theory of Evolution and Intelligent Design. Kreuz, Stuttgart 2007, ISBN 978-3-7831-2825-3

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