Chuck Missler
Charles "Chuck" Missler is an author, conservative Bible teacher, and former businessmann. He is the founder of the Koinonia House ministry based in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho.
The early part of Missler's career was in the business world. He was for several years the chairman, the chief executive, and the largest shareholder of Western Digital. In 1983 he became the chairman and chief executive of Helionetics Inc., another technology company.[1]
After teaching for many years at Calvary Chapel Costa Mesa, Missler moved to Coeur d'Alene in 1992 and founded Koinonia House. Through this organization, Missler distributes a monthly newsletter, Bible study tapes, and a radio show, and speaks at conferences.[2]
Missler is an opponent of evolution. He has argued that new life can never arise from nonliving matter plus energy, as shown by the failure of life to arise in jars of food:
Every day, for over a hundred years, we have continually conducted billions of experiments analogous to the one above and we never find any "new" life forms. Our entire food industry depends upon the fact that, unless an impurity is introduced, no "new life" is ever found.[3]
Missler expounded on this argument in a video titled "Peanut Butter, the Atheist's Nightmare". In it he opened a jar of peanut butter, and argued against evolution on the basis that no one doing so had ever found that the nonliving peanut butter had given rise to something living.[4]
According to Temple University Professor William Alnor, Chuck Missler has admitted plagiarizing a portion of Miami University Professor Edwin Yamauchi's 1982 book Foes From the Northern Frontier in his own 1992 book The Magog Factor (co-written by Hal Lindsey).[5] This act of plagiarism was caught by the Los Angeles Times.[6]
Books
- 2002 Learn the Bible in 24 Hours Pub: Nelson Books ISBN 0-7852-6429-9
- 2006 Prophecy 20/20: Profiling the Future Through the Lens of Scripture Pub: Thomas Nelson ISBN 0785218890
References
- ^ "Chief Is Named At Helionetics", The New York Times, October 27, 1983
{{citation}}: CS1 maint: date and year (link) - ^ About Koinonia House
- ^ Missler, Chuck (2002). "The Kitchen Laboratory". Koinonia House Online. Retrieved 2009-05-09.
- ^ Brownlee, John (March 28, 2007). "Peanut Butter: Disproving Evolution, One Sandwich At A Time". Wired. Retrieved 2009-05-09.
{{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in:|publisher=(help) - ^ Chart of Contemporary Religious Figures Accused of Plagiarism in the Latter Half of the Twentieth Century to the Present, William M. Alnor
- ^ "Question of Attribution," Los Angeles Times July 30, 1992, by Roy Rivenburg
External links
- Koinonia House – Official website