Charles Thaxton
Charles B. Thaxton is a Fellow of the
Discovery Institute's Center for Science and
Culture. He has a doctorate in physical
chemistry from Iowa State University.
Charles Thaxton
went on to complete post-doctorate programs
in the history of science at Harvard
University and the molecular biology
laboratories of Brandeis University. Thaxton
has co-authored several books, including The
Mystery of Life's Origin and The Soul of
Science. He was the editor of the first
edition of the controversial
creationism/Intelligent Design textbook, Of
Pandas and People. The book was
featured prominently in Kitzmiller v. Dover
Area School District and the drafts that
show the transition between creation to "cdesign
proponentsists" to intelligent design proved
important in the judge's decision.
Thaxton was impressed by chemist and
philosopher Michael Polanyi’s argument that
the information in DNA could not be reduced
to physics and chemistry. Something more was
needed. Thaxton later said that he preferred
intelligent design to creationism because he
"wasn’t comfortable with the typical
vocabulary that for the most part
creationists were using because it didn’t
express what I was trying to do. They were
wanting to bring God into the discussion,
and I was wanting to stay within the
empirical domain and do what you can do
legitimately there." |
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