Jay Richards
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Jay Wesley Richards is 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 also a member of the Apologetics Faculty of Biola University.[3]
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. He is the author of numerous scholarly and popular articles, as well as several books.
His most recent books are The Untamed God and The Privileged Planet, with astronomer and fellow CSC Senior Fellow Guillermo Gonzalez.
Richards has expressed skepticism of global warming.[4][5]
[edit] 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
- 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
[edit] References
- ^ Acton Staff
- ^ The New Creationists Nina Shapiro. Seattle Weekly, April 18 2001
- ^ Biola University Apologetics Faculty
- ^ Carbon Dioxide's Day in Court, Jay Richards, Acton Institute, November 29, 2006
- ^ Global Warming: Hysteria or Reality?
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