
Dr. John West is Vice President and a Senior Fellow at the Seattle-based Discovery Institute, where he also serves as Managing Director of the Institute’s Center for Science & Culture, which he co-founded with philosopher of science Stephen Meyer in 1996. His current research examines the impact of science and “scientism” on public policy and culture. His other areas of expertise include constitutional law, American government and institutions, and religion and politics.
Dr. West was previously an Associate Professor of Political Science at Seattle Pacific University where he chaired the Department of Political Science and Geography, and he has taught political science and history courses at California State University, San Bernardino and Azusa Pacific University. From 1986-1989, Dr. West served as Managing Editor of Public Research, Syndicated, which distributed essays on public affairs to more than 700 daily and weekly newspapers.
Dr. West has written or edited twelve books, including most recently the expanded edition of Darwin Day in America: How Our Politics and Culture Have Been Dehumanized in the Name of Science, The Magician's Twin: C.S. Lewis on Science, Scientism, and Society, and Walt Disney and Live Action. Other books include:
- Darwin’s Conservatives: The Misguided Quest
- The Politics of Revelation & Reason: Religion and Civic Life in the New Nation
- The Encyclopedia of Religion in American Politics
- The Encyclopedia of the American Constitution, Supplement I
- The Theology of Welfare
- The C.S. Lewis Readers' Encyclopedia
- Celebrating Middle Earth: The Lord of the Rings as a Defense of Western Civilization.
Additionally, Dr. West has directed and written several documentaries, including Revolutionary, Privileged Species, the award-winning Biology of the Second Reich and Human Zoos, Darwin’s Heretic, The War on Humans, The Magician’s Twin: C.S. Lewis and the Case Against Scientism, and The Magician’s Twin: C.S. Lewis and Intelligent Design. He also helped produce the popular YouTube series, Science Uprising. Listed in Who’s Who in America, he has been interviewed by Time, Newsweek, USA Today, The Washington Post, and The New York Times, and he has appeared on CNN, FoxNews, and C-SPAN.
Dr. West holds a PhD in Government from Claremont Graduate University and a B.A. in Communications from the University of Washington. He is a recipient of several academic fellowships, including a Haynes Foundation Dissertation Grant, an Earhart Foundation Fellowship, a Richard Weaver Fellowship, and a Chevron Journalism/Economics Scholarship. Dr. West is a member of Pi Sigma Alpha (the national political science honor society) and Phi Beta Kappa.
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Martin Luther King’s Powerful Critique of Scientific Racism, Scientific Materialism

New Proposal Could Deny Accreditation to Religious Colleges Based on “Science”

#6 Story of 2020: Amid a Pandemic, Wisdom from C. S. Lewis

“Blind Evolution… Explained Everything”

Walter Bradley’s Wonderful Life — Scientist, Humanitarian, ID Proponent

Michael Behe: A Mousetrap for Darwin

The Solution to Fake News about Intelligent Design

Despite Darwinists’ Cancel Culture, Intelligent Design Has a Breakthrough in Biology Journal

The Magician’s Twin: C.S. Lewis and the Case Against Scientism, Pt. 2

That Hideous Strength
C.S. Lewis's Prophetic Warning against the Abuse of Science
Science and Scientism in the Age of COVID-19

C. S. Lewis and Intelligent Design

Honored by Statue, Democratic South Carolina Senator Said Some Blacks “Near Akin to Monkey”

American Museum of Natural History Cancels Teddy Roosevelt; Keeps Bust of Racist Director?

African Genocide: The Horror of Scientific Racism

John West on Darwin’s Culturally Corrosive Idea, Pt. 2

John West on Darwin’s Culturally Corrosive Idea, Pt. 1

Darwin’s Corrosive Idea
Are Humans “A Plague on the Earth”?
Living Amid a Pandemic
Wisdom from C.S. Lewis
John West and Michael Medved Talk Human Zoos and Racism

John West Discusses Human Zoos with Ted Williams III and Dr. Daniel Davis

From Human Zoos, College Students Learn the Consequences of Scientific Racism

Human Zoos

Seeking Racial Reconciliation in the Heart of Texas at a Screening of Human Zoos
C.S. Lewis & Science: An Interview With Dr. John West, Part 1

The Dangers of Totalitarian Science: Pt. 2
The Dangers of Totalitarian Science: Pt. 1

When the American Museum of Natural History Promoted Eugenics
