Charles B. Thaxton is a chemist, signatory
to A Scientific Dissent From Darwinism, and, in short, another intelligent design author and Fellow of the Discovery Institute's Center for Science and Culture. He has a doctorate in physical chemistry from
Iowa State, and has co-authored several books, including “The Mystery of Life's Origin” (with Walter L. Bradley and Roger L. Olsen), which employs (in effect) the
second-law-of-thermodynamics gambit in favor of creationism, and “The Soul of
Science” (with Nancy Pearcey).
He is most famous, however, for being
co-editor (with Percival Davis and Dean Kenyon) of the first edition of “Of Pandas and People”,
the creationist book (book review here)
that spurred the Kitzmiller vs. Dover trial.
During the trial Thaxton explained that 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.” Translation: “I didn’t like the formulations,
but the content was fine, and I would have preferred to conceal the blatantly
religious agenda somewhat better.” His contributions are discussed here.
Together with his wife Carole he runs the
“KONOS Connection”, an educational Christian organization in Fayetteville, GA.
Diagnosis: Yet another clueless science
denialist (who rejects facts when they don’t conform to dogma), and one who has
actually caused some harm. One to scare your kids with.
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