Dr. John West

Vice President, Discovery Institute; award-winning author and documentary film maker

John G. West is Vice President of the Seattle-based Discovery Institute and Managing Director of the Institute’s Center for Science and Culture. Formerly the Chair of the Department of Political Science and Geography at Seattle Pacific University, West is an award-winning author and documentary filmmaker who has written or edited 12 books, including 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: The Disney Studio’s Live-Action Features of the 1950s and 60s. His next book is Stockholm Syndrome Christianity: Why America’s Christian Leaders are Failing—and What We Can Do About It (forthcoming, 2025). His documentary films include Fire-Maker, Revolutionary, The War on Humans, and (most recently) Human Zoos. West holds a PhD in Government from Claremont Graduate University, and he has been interviewed by media outlets such as CNN, Fox News, Reuters, Time magazine, The New York Times, USA Today, and The Washington Post. You can follow him on X or at his website, johngwest.com.

Dr. West will speak on “The Bible, Intelligent Design, and the Rise of Modern Science” on Friday evening at 7:30pm, and on “Darwin’s Corrosive Idea—the Cultural Consequences of Rejecting Intelligent Design”, Saturday afternoon at 1pm. He will also speak to our high school students on "Created in the Image of God: Why It Matters" Friday at 2:45 p.m.