Jay Wesley Richards is an American analytic

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who focuses on the intersection of politics, philosophy, and religion. He is the William E. Simon Senior Research Fellow in Heritage’s DeVos Center for Religion and Civil Society at The Heritage Foundation. He serves as an adjunct professor in the School of Business at the

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and the executive editor of ''The Stream'' and senior fellow at the

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. A former Presbyterian, Richards is now a Catholic.

Early life

Jay Richards graduated from Southwestern University, where he received a B.A. with majors in political science and religion. He received a Master of Theology (Th.M.) degree from Calvin Theological Seminary and a Master of Divinity (M.Div.) degree from Union Presbyterian Seminary. His Ph.D. is in philosophy and theology from Princeton Theological Seminary.

Career

Richards is author or editor of more than a dozen books, including the New York Times bestsellers Infiltrated (2013) and Indivisible (2012); The Human Advantage; Money, Greed, and God, winner of a 2010 Templeton Enterprise Award; The Hobbit Party with Jonathan Witt; and Eat, Fast, Feast. Richards was a fellow at the Institute for Faith, Work & Economics and the program director of the

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(CSC). He was the first fellow at the Discovery Institute to confirm the genuineness of the Wedge document. Science organizations then paid attention to the institute 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." Richards has expressed

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. In January 2008, at

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, Jay Richards had a debate with a leading atheist, Christopher Hitchens, on the topic: Atheism vs. Theism and The Scientific Evidence of Intelligent Design. It was moderated by

Ben Stein Benjamin Jeremy Stein (born November 25, 1944) is an American writer, lawyer, actor, comedian, and commentator on political and economic issues. He began his career as a speechwriter for U.S. presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford before ente ...

. The debate led up to the release of Ben Stein's movie '' Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed''. Richards taught an apologetics course at

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. He has worked for the Acton Institute and is the executive editor of The Stream.

Bibliography

*''Unapologetic Apologetics: Meeting the Challenges of Theological Studies''.

William A. Dembski William Albert Dembski (born July 18, 1960) is an American mathematician, philosopher and theologian. He was a proponent of intelligent design (ID) pseudoscience, specifically the concept of specified complexity, and was a senior fellow of the ...

, Jay Wesley Richards. Downer's Grove, Illinois: InterVarsity Press, January 2001. *''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 John Rogers Searle (; born July 31, 1932) is an American philosopher widely noted for contributions to the philosophy of language, philosophy of mind, and social philosophy. He began teaching at UC Berkeley in 1959, and was Willis S. and Mario ...

, William Dembski, Michael Denton. Discovery Institute, June 2001. *''The Untamed God: A Philosophical Exploration of Divine Perfection, Immutability and Simplicity'' by Jay Wesley Richards, InterVarsity Press, October 2003. * '' 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, *''Money, Greed, and God: Why Capitalism Is the Solution and Not the Problem''. New York: HarperOne, 2009. *''Eat, Fast, Feast: Heal Your Body While Feeding Your Soul- A Christian Guide to Fasting''. HarperOne, January 2020. *''The Price of Panic: How the Tyranny of Experts Turned a Pandemic into a Catastrophe'' by Jay W. Richards, Douglas Axe and William M. Briggs, Regnery Publishing, October 2020.

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