Walter Myers III

Walter is a Principal Engineering Manager leading a team of engineers in the Microsoft FastTrack for Azure (FTA) organization, working with customers to drive their digital transformation and success in the Microsoft Azure Cloud. He holds a Masters Degree in Philosophy from Biola University's Talbot School of Theology, where he is an adjunct faculty member in the Master of Arts in Science & Religion (MASR) program teaching on Darwin, evolution, and design. He is a member of the Advisory Board for the California Policy Center (CPC), an educational non-profit focused on policies to improve California's democracy and economy. He is a former board member of the Lincoln Club of Orange County, where he served as Programs Chair from 2015-2018, fighting to reduce the power and scope of government, advocating for free markets, lower taxes, and more freedom for all. He is a regular contributor to the Discovery Institute Evolution News and Views website writing on parallels in the design of computer systems and biological organisms. Walter lives in sunny Southern California where he enjoys road biking and landscape/night photography when time permits.

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Is the Human Neck a “Mistake of Evolution”?

_{Walter Myers III
October 20, 2021}

Darwin asserted the “absurdity” of evolution designing a shared opening to the esophagus and trachea (windpipe).

The Rise in Black Unemployment Is about More Than Race

_{Walter Myers III
September 16, 2021}

AFL-CIO chief economist William Spriggs argued that the primary cause for disappointing black employment numbers is discrimination. While there may be some correlation, the primary factor inhibiting black economic attainment is the failure of urban public schools to adequately prepare students for post-secondary education.

The Rise in Black Unemployment Is about More Than Race

_{Bridging the economic gap between black and white workers starts with bridging the achievement gap in K–12 education.}_{Walter Myers III
September 16, 2021}

Hierarchical Systems in Biology — DNA Packaging

_{Walter Myers III
September 2, 2021}

It is hard to fathom that such a highly complex, hierarchical mechanism of information storage on a microscopic scale could come about purely by chance.

Orange County Seeks to Slip Critical Race Theory into Ethnic Studies Curriculum

_{Walter Myers III
September 2, 2021}

My greatest worry is a California public school system that promotes a divisive ideology discouraging black and brown children from aiming high, and further fails to educate them to give them a fighting chance to be successful regardless of the obstacles they may face in life.

Critical Race Theory – The Marxist Trojan Horse

_{Walter Myers III
August 5, 2021}

I think parents finally understand why so many of their children who go off to college full of hope leave those institutions with a disdain for America and our capitalist system.

Critical Race Theory – The Marxist Trojan Horse

_{Walter Myers III
August 5, 2021}

I think parents finally understand why so many of their children who go off to college full of hope leave those institutions with a disdain for America and our capitalist system.

NASA Is Overselling Its Mars Perseverance Mission

_{Walter Myers III
March 1, 2021}

Synthetic organic chemist James Tour, of Rice University, has shown the folly of NASA scientists and others in a number of videos.

Viruses, the Immune System, and Computer Systems

_{Walter Myers III
February 9, 2021}

Virus detection in computer programs is primarily implemented using a signature-based technique.

Plant Diversity and Computer Programming

_{Walter Myers III
January 21, 2021}

I asked the gardener how come, after all these years, the soil in my geranium pots is at roughly the same level.

Stranger on a Plane: Lessons from Flatland

_{Walter Myers III
June 26, 2019}

In 1884, English clergyman Edwin A. Abbott published a work of scientific and mathematical fantasy.

On Book Tour, Marcos Eberlin Sparks Thought About the ID Movement

_{Walter Myers III
May 8, 2019}

During the Q&A, an attendee asked why intelligent design proponents don’t just come out and explicitly say the designer is God.

Measles “Hacking” the Body?

_{Walter Myers III
March 11, 2019}

In previous articles I have discussed how biological organisms exhibit patterns that are highly analogous to computer programs written by humans.

Modern Software and Biological Organisms: Object-Oriented Design

_{Walter Myers III
August 10, 2018}

Let’s consider the eye, which is but one of many subsystems (along with the brain, heart, liver, lungs, etc.) in higher animals that coordinate their tasks to keep an organism alive.

The Problem with “Bad Design” Arguments

_{Walter Myers III
May 8, 2018}

In a physical world there will be design constraints, so it is only realistic to expect tradeoffs.