Scholarly Advisory Board
The Scientism vs. Science project draws upon peer-reviewed researchers, synthetic chemists, information theorists, clinicians, and philosophers of science whose work establishes empirical limits to naturalistic mechanisms.
Pillar 1: Hard Synthetic Chemistry & Abiogenesis
Dr. James Tour
- Field: Synthetic Organic Chemistry & Nanotechnology
- Affiliation: T. T. and W. F. Chao Professor of Chemistry, Professor of Materials Science and NanoEngineering, Rice University
- Core Contribution: Authored over 700 academic publications with extensive patents in synthetic chemistry. Dr. Tour has exposed the chemical impasse of prebiotic synthesis, specifically demonstrating the unaddressed barriers of homochirality, chemical cross-reactions, purification requirements, and mass-action equilibrium limits in origin-of-life models.
Pillar 2: Digital Information Theory & Molecular Biology
Dr. Stephen C. Meyer
- Field: Philosophy of Science & Geophysics
- Affiliation: Director of the Center for Science and Culture, Discovery Institute; Ph.D., Cambridge University
- Core Contribution: Author of Signature in the Cell and Darwin's Doubt. Meyer demonstrated that the nucleotide sequence in DNA functions as literal digital software exhibiting high degrees of specified complexity, a feature exclusively produced by intelligent agency in observational experience.
Dr. Werner Gitt
- Field: Information Science & Physics
- Affiliation: Former Director and Professor at the Federal Institute of Physics and Technology (PTB), Germany
- Core Contribution: Author of In the Beginning Was Information. Formalized the multi-tiered laws of information science (statistical, syntactical, semantic, pragmatic, and apobetics), proving that universal information cannot emerge spontaneously from unguided matter and energy.
Pillar 3: Clinical Systems Biology & Physiology
Dr. Howard Glicksman, MD
- Field: Clinical Medicine & Medical Physiology
- Affiliation: Fellow of the College of Family Physicians of Canada
- Core Contribution: Author of The Designed Body series. Specializes in homeostatic control systems, demonstrating that life depends on narrow physiological parameters (e.g., pH balance, blood pressure control, respiratory gases) that require interdependent, multi-organ feedback loops operating simultaneously from day one.
Dr. Michael Behe
- Field: Biochemistry
- Affiliation: Professor of Biochemistry, Lehigh University; Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania
- Core Contribution: Author of Darwin's Black Box and The Edge of Evolution. Formulated the principle of Irreducible Complexity at the molecular level, demonstrating that multi-component machines like bacterial flagella and blood-clotting cascades cannot be built through stepwise, gradual Darwinian pathways.
Dr. Marcos Eberlin
- Field: Organic Chemistry & Mass Spectrometry
- Affiliation: Former President of the International Mass Spectrometry Foundation; Member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences
- Core Contribution: Author of Foresight: How the Chemistry of Life Points to Intelligent Design. Demonstrates the chemical engineering foresight required for membrane channels, cellular crosstalk, and metabolic regulation before natural selection could operate.
Pillar 4: Cosmic Origins & Physical Fine-Tuning
Dr. William Lane Craig
- Field: Philosophy of Science & Philosophical Theology
- Affiliation: Professor of Philosophy, Houston Christian University; Ph.D., University of Birmingham; D.Theol., University of Munich
- Core Contribution: Revitalized the Kalam Cosmological Argument in modern analytic philosophy, synthesizing spacetime theorems (such as the Borde-Guth-Vilenkin theorem) and thermodynamic laws to defend an absolute beginning of the universe.
Dr. Hugh Ross
- Field: Astrophysics
- Affiliation: Ph.D. in Astronomy, University of Toronto; Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Caltech
- Core Contribution: Author of The Creator and the Cosmos. Catalogs the precise mathematical and cosmological fine-tuning parameters (cosmological constant, strong nuclear force, planetary ratios) required for physical matter and observers to exist.
Pillar 5: Mathematical Realism & Logic
Dr. John Lennox
- Field: Mathematics & Philosophy of Science
- Affiliation: Emeritus Professor of Mathematics, University of Oxford; Fellow in Mathematics and Philosophy of Science at Green Templeton College
- Core Contribution: Author of God's Undertaker: Has Science Buried God?. Demonstrates that the mathematical comprehensibility of the universe and invariant physical laws presuppose a rational Mind rather than unguided materialism.
Dr. David Berlinski
- Field: Mathematics & Philosophy
- Affiliation: Ph.D., Princeton University; Former Fellow at the Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques
- Core Contribution: Author of The Devil's Delusion: Atheism and Its Scientific Pretensions. Provides rigorous mathematical critiques of algorithmically unguided evolutionary mechanisms and speculative cosmology.
Pillar 6: Consciousness & Philosophy of Mind
Dr. J.P. Moreland
- Field: Philosophy of Mind & Metaphysics
- Affiliation: Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, Talbot School of Theology, Biola University; Ph.D., University of Southern California
- Core Contribution: Author of Consciousness and the Existence of God. Demonstrates that qualitative mental states, intentionality, and unified self-awareness cannot be derived from mindless physical particles (The Hard Problem of Consciousness).
C.S. Lewis
- Field: Epistemology & Literary Theory
- Affiliation: Former Chair of Medieval and Renaissance Literature, University of Cambridge; Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford
- Core Contribution: Formulated the Argument from Reason in Miracles, demonstrating that if human thoughts are merely the unintended byproduct of non-rational physical interactions, human reasoning cannot claim rational validity—rendering philosophical naturalism self-refuting.