John S. Watson (Chevron CEO) John S. Watson (Chevron CEO) John S. Watson (born 1956) is an American businessman. He served as the Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board of the Chevron Corporation from January 1, 2010 to January 31, 2018. John S. Watson was born in California in 1956. In 1978, he graduated with a B.A. in Agricultural Economics from the University of California, Davis, and in 1980 he received an MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. In 1980, he joined the Chevron Corporation. He served as its Chief Financial Officer from 2001 to 2005. From 2009 to
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.