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'''Christopher Michael Langan''' (born c.]) is an individual with an estimated ] of 195 (O'Connell, 2001; Sager, 1999), and, as he pointed out to a reporter from ], he has a colossal head as well: three standard deviations above the mean, to be exact (Sager, 1999). With only a small amount of college, Langan has held a variety of labor-intensive odd jobs including construction worker, cowboy, firefighter, farmhand, and perhaps most famously, ]. Accordingly, he has sometimes been stereotyped as the sort of individual who combines an extremely high IQ with little or no official recognition in the academic "real world" of intellectual commerce (O'Connell, 2001). Langan currently owns and operates a horse ranch in northern Missouri. '''Christopher Michael Langan''' (born c.]) is an individual with an estimated ] of 195 (Brabham, 2001; O'Connell, 2001; Sager, 1999). With only a small amount of college, Langan has held a variety of labor-intensive odd jobs including construction worker, cowboy, firefighter, farmhand, and perhaps most famously, ]. Accordingly, he has sometimes been stereotyped as the sort of individual who combines an extremely high IQ with little or no official recognition in the academic "real world" of intellectual commerce (Morris, 2001; O'Connell, 2001). Langan currently owns and operates a horse ranch in northern Missouri.


In ] Langan was featured in ] magazine, where he discussed his "Cognitive-Theoretic Model of the Universe" (CTMU), a philosophical model of reality. Langan explores the implications of this idea in various contexts including physics and cosmology, biological origins and evolution, psychology, ethics, and theology. Langan's ideas on physical and biological causality were recently explicated in Chapter 13 of "Uncommon Dissent: Intellectuals Who Find Darwinism Unconvincing", a collection of essays published by the Intercollegiate Studies Institute. In ] Langan was featured in ] magazine, where he discussed his "Cognitive-Theoretic Model of the Universe" (CTMU), a philosophical model of reality. Langan explores the implications of this idea in various contexts including physics and cosmology, biological origins and evolution, psychology, ethics, and theology. Langan's ideas on physical and biological causality were recently explicated in Chapter 13 of "Uncommon Dissent: Intellectuals Who Find Darwinism Unconvincing", a collection of essays published by the Intercollegiate Studies Institute.
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* McFadden, Cynthia. (], ]). . ''20/20''. *Brabham, Dennis. (August 21, 2001). . Newsday.
*McFadden, Cynthia. (], ]). . ''20/20''.
*Morris, Errol. (August 14, 2001). "The Smartest Man in the World". First Person.
* O'Connell, J. (May, 2001) Mister Universe. Muscle & Fitness magazine. * O'Connell, J. (May, 2001) Mister Universe. Muscle & Fitness magazine.
* Quain, John R. (], ]). . ''Popular Science''. * Quain, John R. (], ]). . ''Popular Science''.

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Christopher Michael Langan (born c.1957) is an individual with an estimated IQ of 195 (Brabham, 2001; O'Connell, 2001; Sager, 1999). With only a small amount of college, Langan has held a variety of labor-intensive odd jobs including construction worker, cowboy, firefighter, farmhand, and perhaps most famously, bar bouncer. Accordingly, he has sometimes been stereotyped as the sort of individual who combines an extremely high IQ with little or no official recognition in the academic "real world" of intellectual commerce (Morris, 2001; O'Connell, 2001). Langan currently owns and operates a horse ranch in northern Missouri.

In 2001 Langan was featured in Popular Science magazine, where he discussed his "Cognitive-Theoretic Model of the Universe" (CTMU), a philosophical model of reality. Langan explores the implications of this idea in various contexts including physics and cosmology, biological origins and evolution, psychology, ethics, and theology. Langan's ideas on physical and biological causality were recently explicated in Chapter 13 of "Uncommon Dissent: Intellectuals Who Find Darwinism Unconvincing", a collection of essays published by the Intercollegiate Studies Institute.

Langan is also a fellow of the International Society for Complexity, Information and Design, a "cross-disciplinary professional society that investigates complex systems apart from external programmatic constraints like materialism, naturalism, or reductionism.".

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