Nancy Pearcey

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Nancy Pearcey
Nancy Pearcey

Nancy Randolph Pearcey is an American author who is a prominent intelligent design proponent, a Christian activist, and currently the Francis A. Schaeffer Scholar at the World Journalism Institute.

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[edit] Education

In 1971 and '72, she studied at L'Abri in Switzerland under Francis Schaeffer, and much of her writing reflects that formative period. Later she graduated from Iowa State University with a Distributed Studies degree (philosophy, German, music). She earned a MA from Covenant Theological Seminary in Biblical Studies and pursued further graduate work in philosophy at the Institute for Christian Studies in Toronto (with an emphasis on ancient philosophy and Dutch neo-Calvinism).

In 1977, Pearcey became a contributing editor for the Bible-Science Newsletter, where she remained for 13 years. In 1991, she became the founding editor of "BreakPoint", a daily radio commentary program, and served as its executive editor for nearly nine years, training and heading up a team of staff and contract writers. During that time, she was also a senior fellow at the Wilberforce Forum and coauthored a column in Christianity Today.

Pearcey is editor-at-large of The Pearcey Report.

[edit] Intelligent design

Pearcy is a senior fellow of the Discovery Institute's Center for Science and Culture, the center of the intelligent design movement. Pearcy has played a role in a number of controversies surrounding the institute's campaign to challenge and ultimately unseat the teaching of evolution. Although Pearcey is now an intelligent design advocate, she was previously a young-earth creationist.[1] As editor of the young-earth creationist Bible-Science Newsletter from 1977-1991 Pearcy often wrote monthly articles. Several of Pearcy's Bible-Science Newsletter articles became part of the text of the controversial pro-intelligent design schoolbook Of Pandas and People. In the course of the Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District trial it was shown in testimony by Barbara Forrest that the draft Overview chapter of Of Pandas and People, written by Pearcey, shows the same changes from "creation/creationist" to "intelligent design/design proponent" that the six "excursion" chapters Of Pandas and People show. The expedient substitution of patently creationist language in favor of putatively secular intelligent design language in Of Pandas and People figured significantly in the judge's ruling that intelligent design is religious in nature and not actual science.[2]

She also contributed the foreword to The Right Questions, as well as chapters in Mere Creation, Pro-Life Feminism, Genetic Ethics, Signs of Intelligence, Reading God's World, Uncommon Dissent, and a Phillip E. Johnson Festschrift titled "Darwin's Nemesis". Pearcey has served as a visiting scholar at Biola University's Torrey Honors Institute, an editorial board member for Salem Communications Network, and a commentator on Public Square Radio. Her articles have appeared in numerous journals and magazines, including the Washington Times, Human Events, First Things, Books & Culture, World, Pro Rege, Human Life Review, The American Enterprise, The World & I, Homeschool Enrichment, Christianity Today, and the Regent University Law Review.

Pearcy is a frequent public lecturer and has appeared on NPR and C-SPAN.

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  1. ^ Final ruling: Context Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District
  2. ^ Final ruling: Whether ID is science Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District

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