Jay Richards

Jay Wesley Richards is Director of Acton Media and a Research Fellow at the Acton Institute, [ [http://www.acton.org/about/staff/people59.php Acton Staff] ] 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. [ [http://www.seattleweekly.com/news/0116/news-shapiro.php The New Creationists] Nina Shapiro. Seattle Weekly, April 18 2001] Richards is also a member of the Apologetics Faculty of Biola University. [ [http://www.biola.edu/academics/professional%2Dstudies/apologetics/faculty/ Biola University Apologetics Faculty] ]

Education

Richards has a Ph.D. in philosophy and theology (with honors) from Princeton Theological Seminary, where he was formerly a Teaching Fellow. He also has a Th.M. from Calvin Theological Seminary, and an M.Div. from Union Theological Seminary in Virginia. From 1996-1998, he was executive and associate editor of The "Princeton Theological Review", and president of the Charles Hodge Society at Princeton Theological Seminary.

Work and intelligent design advocacy

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 gained attention with his intelligent design advocacy since 1996. "The Privileged Planet", 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." [cite news | url=http://www.ncseweb.org/resources/articles/784_review_of_emthe_privileged_p_6_7_2005.asp | title=Review of The Privileged Planet | publisher= National Center for Science Education | date= July 2005 | first= | last= | accessdate = 2008-10-18]

Richards became the earliest fellow at the Discovery Institute to confirm the genuineness of the Wedge document. [Barbara Forrest and Paul R. Gross. '. 2004, page 27] Secular and science organizations then took attention of 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." [Barbara Forrest and Paul R. Gross. '. 2004, page 28]

Richards has expressed skepticism of global warming. [ [http://www.acton.org/commentary/commentary_354.php Carbon Dioxide's Day in Court] , Jay Richards, Acton Institute, November 29, 2006] [ [http://www.culturecampaign.com/documents/GSCW_JayRichards_flyer_2up.pdf Global Warming: Hysteria or Reality?] ]

Bibliography

* "Are We Spiritual Machines?: Ray Kurzweil vs. the Critics of Strong A.I." by Jay W. Richards, George F. Gilder, Ray Kurzweil, Thomas Ray, John Searle, William Dembski, Michael Denton. Discovery Institute. ISBN 0-9638654-3-9
* "" 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

References

External links

* [http://www.acton.org/about/staff/people59.php Jay Richards] from Acton Institute
* [http://www.discovery.org/scripts/viewDB/index.php?command=view&id=9&isFellow=true Jay Richards] from Discovery Institute