Jay L Richards

Unapologetic Apologetics: Meeting the Challenges of Theological Studies

The Privileged Planet: How Our Place in the Cosmos Is Designed for Discovery

Are We Spiritual Machines?: Ray Kurzweil vs. the Critics of Strong A.I.

Computers are becoming more powerful at an ever-increasing rate, but will they ever become conscious? Artificial intelligence guru Ray Kurzweil thinks so and explains how we will "download" our software (our minds) and "upgrade" our hardware (our bodies) to become immortal -- before the dawn of the ...

The Untamed God: A Philosophical Exploration of Divine Perfection, Simplicity, and Immutability

God is sovereign.God is perfect.God is immutable.God created everything.God is triune.The Son of God was incarnate in Jesus Christ. The essential tenets of classical theism regarding the doctrine of God can be stated fairly easily. However, questions have been raised regarding the coherence of these...

God and Evolution

What does it mean to say that God “used evolution” to create the world? Is Darwin’s theory of evolution compatible with belief in God? And even if Darwin’s theory could be reconciled with religious belief, do we need to do so? Is the theory well established scientifically? Is it true? In the century...

Infiltrated: How to Stop the Insiders and Activists Who Are Exploiting the Financial Crisis to Control Our Lives and Our Fortunes (Business Books)

What Every American Needs to Know About the War on Free Enterprise--and Freedom Itself America: be warned. A new wave of financial reformers has infiltrated our public institutions at both the state and national levels. A growing army of self-proclaimed activists, philanthropists, and politicians ha...

Indivisible: Restoring Faith, Family, and Freedom Before It's Too Late

Many books have been written on conservative politics. Many more have been written calling Christians to holiness and spiritual revival. Few, however, have managed to combine a clear explanation of the conservative political perspective with its corresponding personal and spiritual virtue.In INDIVIS...

The Hobbit Party: The Vision of Freedom That Tolkien Got, and the West Forgot

Anyone who has read The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings can gather that their author hated tyranny, but few know that the novelist who once described himself as a hobbit “in all but size” was—even by hobbit standards—a zealous proponent of economic freedom and small government. There is a growing ...

The Privileged Planet: How Our Place in the Cosmos Is Designed for Discovery

Earth. The Final FrontierContrary to popular belief, Earth is not an insignificant blip on the universe’s radar. Our world proves anything but average in Guillermo Gonzalez and Jay W. Richards’ The Privileged Planet: How Our Place in the Cosmos Is Designed for Discovery.But what exactly does Earth b...

Money, Greed, and God: Why Capitalism Is the Solution and Not the Problem

In Money, Greed, and God: Why Capitalism is the Solution and Not the Problem, Senior Fellow at the Discovery Institute Jay W. Richards and bestselling author of Indivisible: Restoring Faith, Family, and Freedom Before It's Too Late and Infiltrated: How to Stop the Insiders and Activists Who Are Expl...

Jay Richards

Jay Wesley Richards is an American analytic philosopher and advocate for Intelligent Design. He is the Director of Acton Media and a Research Fellow at the Acton Institute, and Program...