John S. Watson (New Jersey politician) John S. Watson (New Jersey politician) John S. Watson (August 14, 1924 – June 15, 1996) was an African-American Democratic Party politician who served six terms in the New Jersey General Assembly, where he represented the 15th Legislative District. Born in Camden, New Jersey, Watson served with the United States Merchant Marine fleet during World War II. In 1970, Watson became the first African-American elected to the Board of Chosen Freeholders in Mercer County, New Jersey. In 1977, he became the President of the Board. For 12 years, Watson was a member of the New Jersey State Assembly, where he
D. M. S. Watson to show that Watson, and thus by extension promoters of evolution in general, dismiss creationism due to antitheistic bias. A slightly different version of the quotation, derived from a secondhand source, is sometimes used (e.g., by C. S. Lewis): Sometimes the words in square brackets are incorrectly incorporated into the quotation, and/or the ellipsis is omitted. Watson's original statement first appeared in a 1929 article, "Adaptation," in the journal "Nature:" The second version of the quotation, given above, is formed by combining parts of two similar passages in Watson's paper, one from the first page and one from the third.