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This website provides information about E. Norbert Smith, whose love of animals and respect for nature is evident from beginning to end.

His book is much more than mere cataloging of mundane scientific discoveries.

I Hope you will find all the information in this site very useful.
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E. Norbert Smith, Ph.D. has an earned doctorate in Zoology and has written over two hundred technical papers and published dozens of articles in popular electronic and childrens magazines.

His alligator research was included in the BBC TV documentary, A smile for the Crocodile. He lives on a farm in Oklahoma. More»

Passive Fear: Alternative to Flight or Fight
When Frightened Animals Hide

This was my first book and is a nonfiction science book about my thirty years of research using radio telemetry to study the heart rate response of wild animals to fear. 

This book was published by iUniverse in 2006 and is available at www.iuniverse.com  or online from www.Amazon.com...More»

Al-the-Gator and Freddy Frog

 By Doc Gator

This is my first children’s book and, at the insistence of my publisher, I used the pen name “Doc Gator.”  It is about an alligator and his friends living in a farm pond in south Texas near where I caught, studied and released over 200 alligators. This book is published by 4RV Publishing Company of Edmond, OK, and is available directly from the publisher www.4rvpublishingllc.com or from www.Amazon.com. Reviews of the book are posted at both websites...more»

 

Battleground University
Finding truth in Fiction
By E. Norbert Smith, Ph.D. and Johanna Jones, M. A.

This is my first Christian novel and my first book written with a co-author.  In the tradition of C. S. Lewis’ classic The Screwtape Letters, we have attempted to explore contemporary American university campus life through the eyes and correspondence of a demon writing to a pair of university professors won over to the dark side.  As the professors attempt to impress the worldview of their hellish handler’s upon their trusting students, readers are exposed to the subtle, but manipulative pressures that abound in the culture of contemporary academia today.  We deal with a variety of contemporary themes from feminism and Darwinian evolution to secular humanism and even the news and entertainment media...more»

 

Creation or Evolution?
Consider the evidence before deciding

by E. Norbert Smith, Ph.D.

This is my latest and biggest book.  I have finished the final draft and it is currently being reviewed by several professional friends. It should be published later this year or early in 2009.  It is the culmination of my life’s work and ministry.  The draft is 450 pages and it has lots of pictures including some of my own research.  

The book is dedicated to the fond memory of Dr. Henry Morris, author of The Genesis Flood, the book that changed my life.  Dr. Morris started the Creation Research Society and I served under his leadership as a member of the board of directors.  He also started the Institute for Creation research and I taught a graduate course when he was President...more»