344: World's Smartest Man Claims To Have Proven God Exists...Yet His Other Views Are Disturbing

Dozens of geniuses have fundamentally changed our understanding of the world around us, and a select few have even developed working “Theories of everything” that use mathematics and physics to describe the nature of our reality, our consciousness, and our universe. What if there was a guy among us with the highest measured IQ in the world and a working metaphysical theory of everything? What if he wasn’t a respected academic but a former bouncer and current horse farmer in Missouri? What if he believed in god and his own form of science in equal measure, and a few other, more unsavory theories about the earth? Meet Christopher Michael Langan, who, at the age of 73, still claims to be the most intelligent man in the world, with a reported IQ of between 195 and 200. He has spent the past 30 years dedicated to the Cognitive Theoretic Model of the Universe, the only theory of everything that goes beyond physical science to explain the nature of existence itself. However, his theory has co