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Charles "Chuck" Missler is an author, evangelical Christian, and Bible teacher, and former businessman. He is the founder of the Koinonia House ministry based in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho. Chuck Missler, an honors graduate of the United States Naval Academy, earned his Master of Science in Engineering from UCLA. In 1999, Missler received a Ph.D. in biblical studies from the unaccredited Louisiana Baptist University in Shreveport, an institution founded by the late minister Jimmy G. Tharpe.

Missler was born and reared in southern California. After graduating from the United States Naval Academy, he spent time in the United States Air Force completing flight training and became Branch Chief of the Department of Guided Missiles.

Following his military service, he moved into the private sector of business and technology, holding positions with several companies including TRW (a large aerospace firm), Ford Motor Company, and Automatic Data Processing. He has also served as a senior analyst with a non-profit think tank where he conducted projects for the intelligence community and the Department of Defense. During this time he completed a Master's degree at the University of California Los Angeles in engineering.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.

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.

Missler is a prominent Christian Zionist with ties to the far right Patriot movement although he is described as neither racist nor anti-Semitic.

Missler is an opponent of evolution and abiogenesis. 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.

Missler expounded on this argument in the film A Question of Origins. 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 non-living peanut butter had given rise to something living.

A Los Angeles Times article reported that Missler and co-author Hal Lindsey had plagiarized a portion of Miami University Professor Edwin Yamauchi's 1982 book Foes From the Northern Frontier in their own 1992 book The Magog Factor.

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