Jay Richards
Jay Wesley Richards is an American analytic philosopher and advocate of Intelligent Design. He is the Director of Acton Media and a Research Fellow at the Acton Institute,[1] and Program Director of the Discovery Institute's Center for Science and Culture (CSC), which has as its primary role the advocacy of intelligent design.[2] Richards is a former member of the Apologetics Faculty of Biola University.[3]
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[edit] Biography
Richards hold a B.A. with majors in political science and religion, and Master of Divinity (M.Div.) and Master of Theology (Th.M.) degrees. His Ph.D. (with honors) is in philosophy and theology from Princeton Theological Seminary. He is the author of numerous scholarly and popular articles, as well as four books, including The Untamed God and The Privileged Planet.
Richard has been known for his intelligent design advocacy since 1996. The Privileged Planet was co-authored with astronomer and fellow CSC Senior Fellow Guillermo Gonzalez. William H. Jefferys, a Professor of Astronomy at the University of Texas at Austin, reviewed The Privileged Planet writing "the little that is new in this book isn't interesting, and what is old is just old-hat creationism in a new, modern-looking astronomical costume."[4]
Richards was the first fellow at the Discovery Institute to confirm the genuineness of the Wedge document.[5] Secular and science organizations then paid attention to the DI after the document was published online, but Richards wrote "that the mission statement and goals had been posted on the CRSC's website since 1996."[6] Richards has expressed skepticism of global warming.[7][8]
[edit] Bibliography
- Are We Spiritual Machines?: Ray Kurzweil vs. the Critics of Strong A.I. by Jay W. Richards, George Gilder, Ray Kurzweil, Thomas Ray, John Searle, William Dembski, Michael Denton. Discovery Institute. ISBN 0-9638654-3-9
- The Privileged Planet: How Our Place in the Cosmos Is Designed for Discovery by Guillermo Gonzalez, Jay W. Richards, Regnery Publishing, Inc., Washington D.C., March 2004, ISBN 0-89526-065-4
- The Untamed God: A Philosophical Exploration of Divine Perfection, Immutability and Simplicity by Jay Wesley Richards, InterVarsity Press, October 2003, ISBN 083082734X
- Unapologetic Apologetics: Meeting the Challenges of Theological Studies. William A. Dembski, Jay Wesley Richards. Downer's Grove, Illinois: InterVarsity Press, 2001. ISBN 0-8308-1563-5
- Money, Greed, and God: Why Capitalism Is the Solution and Not the Problem. New York: HarperOne, 2009. ISBN 978-0061375613
[edit] References
- ^ Acton Staff
- ^ The New Creationists Nina Shapiro. Seattle Weekly, April 18, 2001
- ^ Biola University Apologetics Faculty
- ^ "Review of The Privileged Planet". National Center for Science Education. July 2005. http://ncse.com/rncse/25/1-2/review-privileged-planet. Retrieved 2009-11-12.
- ^ Barbara Forrest and Paul R. Gross. Creationism's Trojan Horse: The Wedge of Intelligent Design. 2004, page 27
- ^ Barbara Forrest and Paul R. Gross. Creationism's Trojan Horse: The Wedge of Intelligent Design. 2004, page 28
- ^ Carbon Dioxide's Day in Court, Jay Richards, Acton Institute, November 29, 2006
- ^ Global Warming: Hysteria or Reality? at the Wayback Machine (archived October 8, 2007)
