John Wise received his PhD in philosophy from the University of CA, Irvine in 2004. His dissertation was titled Sartre’s Phenomenological Ontology and the German Idealist Tradition. His area of specialization is 19th to early 20th century continental philosophy.

He tells the story of his 25-year odyssey from atheism to Christianity in the book, Through the Looking Glass: The Imploding of an Atheist Professor’s Worldview (available on Amazon). Since his return to Christ, his research interests include developing a Christian (YEC) philosophy of science and the integration of all human knowledge with God’s word.

He has taught philosophy for the University of CA, Irvine, East Stroudsburg University of PA, Grand Canyon University, American Intercontinental University, and Ashford University. He currently teaches online for the University of Arizona, Global Campus, and is a member of the Heterodox Academy. He and his wife Jenny are known online as The Christian Atheist with a podcast of that name, in addition to a YouTube channel: John and Jenny Wise.
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The End of the Road for Materialism

Hegelian metaphysics in scientific notation: Materialism replaced by Mind

Physics Confesses Its Limits

Physics' greatest "laws" are inadequate to explain Life.

Botany Bears Down

Materialist dogma wilts in the face of biological integrated complexity.

Moonseed Evolution or Another Looney Tune?

The evolutionary paradigm requires a seamless story, so the story must supply the seam.

Did Kissing Evolve?

You cannot strip a kiss of its meaning and still pretend you are studying a kiss.

Jumping Genes Are Not Fitting the Darwinian Narrative

The closer you look at TEs, the less they resemble debris, and the more they resemble design.

Fall Colors: For Beauty or for Mere Survival?

Evolutionary thinking assumes that beauty must pay its way, that splendor is tolerated only if it serves survival.

More Disney Effect: Chimps that Think and Believe

What this study (and so many others like it) does reveal, is the tenacity—or perhaps desperation—of an interpretive motive.

Consciousness, continued: Babel in the Brain

Until science recovers that sense that some things are truly right and others truly wrong — it will continue, like Babel, to speak in many tongues while never reaching unto the heavens.

Consciousness: The Ghost in the Laboratory

The proliferation of theories reflects persistence to find an explanation for the one reality that refuses to be mechanized: the human self.

Hadrosaurs: Two Mummies, Two Surprises

Field discovery keeps contradicting theoretical certainty—and revealing wonder. Creation demands to be read, not rewritten.

Can Evolution Predict the Past?

What evolved fastest here wasn’t the human skull—it was the evolutionary story.

How to Spoof an Evolution Paper

Philosopher John Wise tried his hand at using AI to generate Darwin "science." The results convinced another AI engine!

Three-Legged Lizards and the Limits of Evolutionary Storytelling

When the evidence refuses to behave, the Darwinian narrative expands to fit.

From Pretzel to Paradox: When Google Gemini Conceded the Creationist Case

This was one of the most surprising conversations I have had with an AI.
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