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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. He 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 couldn't 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."
In 1984, Thaxton joined with materials scientist Walter L. Bradley and geochemist Roger L. Olsen to publish
The Mystery of Life’s Origin, which criticized "
chemical evolution," the idea that unguided natural processes produced the first living
cells abiotically, from non-living materials.
The Mystery of Life’s Origin
The Mystery of Life’s Origin is a 1984 book Thaxton, materials scientist
Walter L. Bradley and geochemist
Roger L. Olsen which challenged "
chemical evolution," the idea that unguided natural processes produced the first living
cells from non-living materials.
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