Richards is author or editor of more than a dozen books, including the New York Times bestsellers Infiltrated (2013) and Indivisible (2012); The Human Advantage; Money, Greed, and God, winner of a 2010 Templeton Enterprise Award; The Hobbit Party with Jonathan Witt; and Eat, Fast, Feast. Richards was a fellow at the Institute for Faith, Work & Economics and the program director of the
Discovery Institute's
Center for Science and Culture (CSC). He was the first fellow at the Discovery Institute to confirm the genuineness of the
Wedge document. Science organizations then paid attention to the institute after the document was published online, but Richards wrote "that the mission statement and goals had been posted on the
CRSC's website since 1996." Richards has expressed
climate change denial. In January 2008, at
Stanford University, Jay Richards had a debate with a leading atheist,
Christopher Hitchens, on the topic: Atheism vs. Theism and The Scientific Evidence of Intelligent Design. It was moderated by
Ben Stein. The debate led up to the release of Ben Stein's movie
Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed. Richards taught an
apologetics course at
Biola University. He has worked for the
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