Charles B. Thaxton (born 1939) is a proponent of special creation who went on to become one of the first intelligent design authors.
[2] Thaxton earned a doctorate in physical chemistry from Iowa State University.
[1] Thaxton has co-authored several books, including The Mystery of Life's Origin and The Soul of Science.
[3] In The Mystery of Life's Origin, Thaxton argues for "Special Creation by a creator beyond the cosmos", and asserts that Special Creation holds "that the source that produced life was intelligent".
[5] Thaxton stated that he preferred intelligent design to creationism because he "wasn’t comfortable with the typical vocabulary that for the most part creationists were using because it didn’t express what I was trying to do.