Who is Alan Cromer from The Demon-Haunted World and what is their importance?

Alan Cromer is a physics professor at Northwestern University who was amazed to find that so many students had trouble grasping basic concepts of his physics class. He concluded in Uncommon Sense: the Heretical Nature of Science that hostility to science and inability to grasp its principles results from the fact science is something new in human evolution and somewhat outside the mainstream of development.