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Christopher Michael Langan (born c.1957) is an American whom numerous media sources report as having an estimated IQ of 195, as reported by 20/20, BBC[1], Esquire[2], Extra, Fantástico, First Person, Inside Edition, Muscle and Fitness, New York Newsday[3], Popular Science, The Times[4], and others. According to 20/20, Langan scored "off the charts" when tested by Dr. Robert Novelly. Novelly, a board certified neuropsychologist, commented that Langan was "the highest individual that I have ever measured in 25 years" of testing.[5]
With only a small amount of college, Langan has held a variety of labor-intensive jobs including construction worker, cowboy, firefighter, farmhand, and perhaps most famously, bar bouncer. Accordingly, he has sometimes been stereotyped as the sort of individual who combines an extremely high IQ with little or no official recognition in the academic "real world" of intellectual commerce [6][7]. Langan, who grew up in Montana, currently owns and operates a horse ranch in northern Missouri. Langan is a fellow of the International Society for Complexity, Information and Design (ISCID), a think tank founded by leaders of the intelligent design movement, that describes itself as a "cross-disciplinary professional society that investigates complex systems apart from external programmatic constraints like materialism, naturalism, or reductionism."[1]. He also serves on the board of the Mega Foundation, a nonprofit foundation for the gifted.
In 2001 Langan was featured in Popular Science magazine, where he discussed his "Cognitive-Theoretic Model of the Universe" (CTMU)[8]. In a 56-page paper published in 2002 by ISCID, Langan explained the CTMU in detail.[9]. Filmmaker Errol Morris directed an hour-long documentary on Langan titled "The Smartest Man in the World". Langan has written question and answer columns for New York Newsday[10], The Improper Hamptonian[11], and Men's Fitness[12] In 2004, Langan contributed a chapter to the book Uncommon Dissent: Intellectuals Who Find Darwinism Unconvincing, a collection of essays edited by by intelligent design proponent William Dembski[13]. In the chapter, Langan discusses the strengths and weaknesses of both intelligent design and neoDarwinism and proposes a synthesis by means of the CTMU.
References
- ^ Fowler, D. (2000). Interview with Mega Foundation BBC Outlook. London: British Broadcasting Company.
- ^ Sager, Mike. (November, 1999) "The Smartest Man in America." Esquire.
- ^ Brabham, Dennis. (August 21, 2001). "The Smart Guy". Newsday.
- ^ Wigmore, Barry. (February 7, 2000). "Einstein's brain, King Kong's body". The Times.
- ^ McFadden, Cynthia. (December 9, 1999). "The Smart Guy". 20/20
- ^ Morris, Errol. (August 14, 2001). "The Smartest Man in the World". First Person
- ^ O'Connell, J. (May, 2001) Mister Universe. Muscle & Fitness magazine.
- ^ Quain, John R. (October 14, 2001). "Wise Guy". Popular Science.
- ^ Langan, Christopher M. (2002). The Cognitive-Theoretic Model of the Universe: A New Kind of Reality Theory. Progress in Complexity, Information, and Design 1.2-1.3
- ^ Langan, C M (2001), Chris Langan answers your questions. New York Newsday, September, 2001, Melville, NY
- ^ Langan, C M (2000-2001). HiQ. Improper Hamptonian. Westhampton Beach, NY
- ^ O'Connell, J., Ed. (2004) World of knowledge: we harness the expertise of the brawny, the brainy, and the bearded to solve your most pressing dilemmas. Mens Fitness.
- ^ Langan, Christopher M. (2004). Cheating the Millennium: The Mounting Explanatory Debts of Scientific Naturalism. In Uncommon Dissent: Intellectuals Who Find Darwinism Unconvincing, Wm. Dembski, Ed., Intercollegiate Studies Institute.
