John S. Watson (New Jersey politician) served as Chairman of the Assembly Appropriations Committee. The John S. Watson Institute for Public Policy located at the Rudolph V. Kuser Mansion on the campus of Thomas Edison State College in Trenton, New Jersey is named in his honor. His daughter Bonnie Watson Coleman went on to serve in what was once his Assembly seat. She is now a member of the United States House of Representatives. 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,
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.