Steven L. Peck

Steven L. Peck
Born	July 25, 1957
Nationality	United States
Occupation	Author, biology professor
Website	ScienceBySteve.net "The Mormon Organon: A Biology Professor Looks at Science and Faith"

Steven L. Peck (born July 25, 1957) is an evolutionary biologist, blogger, poet, and novelist. His literary work is influential in Mormon literature circles. He is a professor of biology at Brigham Young University (BYU) He grew up in Moab, Utah and lives in Pleasant Grove, Utah.

After failing high school history, Peck studied to receive his GED. Peck received a bachelor's degree in 1986 from Brigham Young University in statistics and computer science with a minor in zoology. His master's is from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (environmental biostatistics), and his 1997 PhD from North Carolina State University (biomathematics and entomology). His dissertation was titled "Spatial Patterns and Processes in the Evolution of Insecticide Resistance."

During their honeymoon, Steven and his wife Lori were hit by a drunk driver in Oregon. Steven and Lori have five children.

Peck believes that God "only enters the universe through our consciousness." He compares scriptural interpretation to scientific interpretation, in that both nature and scriptures are unchanging, but our understanding of them changes over the course of generations. While the LDS church currently has no official position on evolution, Peck teaches evolution in the courses he teaches at BYU.

On the subject of writing, Peck says that it is a way for him to explore the complexities in his life. He stated that anything we do to build our knowledge of the universe helps to build the kingdom of God.

In 2008, Peck worked with the United Nations International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna, Austria making models of tsetse fly ecology and population genetics.

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