Nancy Pearcey

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Nancy Randolph Pearcey (born 1952) 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 and Career

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 an 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.

In September 2007, Pearcey was named Scholar for Worldview Studies at the Center for University Studies at Philadelphia Biblical University, Langhorne, Pennsylvania.[1]

[edit] Intelligent design

Pearcey is a senior fellow of the Discovery Institute's Center for Science and Culture, the center of the intelligent design movement. Pearcey 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.[2] As editor of the young-earth creationist Bible-Science Newsletter from 1977-1991 Pearcey often wrote monthly articles. Several of Pearcey'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.[3]

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.

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

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  1. ^ Author Dr. Nancy Pearcey Named Worldview Scholar at Philadelphia Biblical University's Center for University Studies ChristianNewsWire
  2. ^ Final ruling: Context Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District
  3. ^ Final ruling: Whether ID is science Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District
  4. ^ 2005 Christian Book Awards Winners – Christianity and Society category

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