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David Catchpoole

David Catchpoole, B.Ag.Sc. (Hons), Ph.D., was a plant physiologist with the Queensland Department of Primary Industries, who now works full time with Creation Ministries International as a speaker and writer, particularly for Creation magazine and the CMI web-site.

Contents

* 1 Testimony

* 2 Creation evangelism

* 3 Publications

* 4 References

* 5 See Also

Testimony

Like most scientists today, David Catchpoole was an evolutionist when he started out, and did not believe in God. When he was in his mid-20's, he went on a trip to Indonesia, where a personal crisis, and typhoid fever, brought him to know the Lord. At that time in his life, he remembered the words of some Christian university students, who had told him to cry out to God if he ever faced a crisis. So he said ‘God, it sounds strange even saying your name, because I’m not sure you even exist. But if you can hear me and get me out of this mess, I’ll be a Christian for the rest of my days.’ Apparently God heard his plea and David got out of his mess, and became a Christian. After David became a Christian, he still believed the universe was billions of years old, until he heard a seminar from Dr. Don Batten and Dr. Carl Wieland in 1997. What David didn’t realize is that a lot of speculation goes into what scientists cannot test or observe, which is the distant past.

Creation evangelism

David Catchpoole speaks particularly about the value of creation to evangelism. In response to a story about a girl who could not find an answer to the question, "...our bodies are unclean! Why would God, who is pure, sully himself by coming down to Earth in human form?", he wrote:

Such a question requires only a basic understanding of the Atonement to answer. Salvation required a sacrificial 'last Adam' (1 Cor. 15:45) to shed His blood in death, one who was a physical descendant of the first, yet sinless. This could be fulfilled only through God incarnate, Jesus Christ (Hebrews 9:12, 22). Notice, though, how all this is built upon the foundational Genesis truths of the first Adam bringing in sin and death, and the first shedding of blood as a covering for sin (Genesis 3:21). The increasing confusion caused in the church by long-age compromises (which, by putting suffering, death and bloodshed before Adam, undermine these truths) is a major reason why so many today cannot give reasoned answers to basic Gospel-related questions (contravening 1 Peter 3:15). This leaves young people in the church vulnerable to being tossed by winds of false doctrine (Ephesians 4:14).

Creation 24(2):46-51, Mar-May 2002.

David Catchpoole

Creation Ministries International

PO Box 4545

Eight Mile Plains, Qld 4113

Phone: (07) 3340 9888

Email: Contact form

Publications

* The Lion That Wouldn't Eat Meat by David Catchpoole. Creation ex nihilo 22(2):22–23 March 2000

* Piranha by David Catchpoole. Creation ex nihilo 22(4):20–23 September 2000

* Fossil Folly by David Catchpoole. Creation ex nihilo 23(1):45 December 2000

* Echoes of Eden by David Catchpoole. Creation 24(4):14–15 September 2002

* The 'bird of prey' that's not by David Catchpoole. Creation ex nihilo 23(1):24–25 December 2000

* How to build a bomb in the public school system by David Catchpoole. Creation 22(1):17 December 1999

* Morals decline linked to belief in evolution by David Catchpoole. The Australian, February 1, 2000

* ‘I don’t believe!!!’ by David Catchpoole. The American Chesterton Society, 31st January 2001

* ‘Living fossils’ enigma by David Catchpoole. Creation ex nihilo 22(2):56 March 2000

* The bamboozling panda by David Catchpoole. Creation ex nihilo 23(2):28–32 March 2001

* After devastation ... the recovery by David Catchpoole. Creation ex nihilo 22(2):33–37 March 2000

* Speedy species surprise by David Catchpoole. Creation ex nihilo 23(2):13–15 March 2001

* Message Mania by David Catchpoole. Creation 23(3):16–19 June 2001

* Wings on the wind by David Catchpoole. Creation 23(4):16–23 September 2001

* Another ‘living fossil’ tree by David Catchpoole. Sydney Morning Herald, 15 December 2000

* New evidence: Lucy was a knuckle-walker by David Catchpoole. Creation19(1):52, Dec. 1996

* Dinosaur heart update: just a lump of mud? by David Catchpoole. Science 288(5465):503–505, 2000

* Encyclopedic 'truth' ... or wordly wisdom? by David Catchpoole. Creation ex nihilo 22(4):50–52 September 2000

* The Koran vs Genesis by David Catchpoole. Creation 24(2):46–51 March 2002

* Pliable plants by David Catchpoole. Creation 24(1):56 December 2001

* Mokele-mbembe: a living dinosaur? by David Catchpoole. Creation 21(4):24–25 September 1999

* Giant oysters on the mountain by David Catchpoole. Creation 24(2):54–55 March 2002

* Golden oldie by David Catchpoole. Creation 21(4):33 September 1999

* The 'fungus' that 'walks' by David Catchpoole. Creation ex nihilo 22(3):49–51 June 2000

* Life at the extremes by David Catchpoole. Creation 24(1):40–44 December 2001

* Hundreds of jellyfish fossils! by David Catchpoole. Creation 25(4):32–33 September 2003

* Skeptics challenge: a ‘God of love’ created a killer jellyfish? by David Catchpoole. Creation 25(4):34–35 September 2003

* How does a ‘box’ swim? by David Catchpoole. Creation 25(3):56 June 2003

* Monkey madness by David Catchpoole. Creation 25(4):23 September 2003

* Creating life from scratch? by David Catchpoole. Creation ex nihilo 22(2):6 March 2000

* Gladiator—an ‘extinct’ insect is found alive by David Catchpoole. Creation 25(2):51–53 March 2003

* What's in an Egg? by David Catchpoole. Creation 24(3):41–43 June 2002

References

* David Catchpoole biography by Answers in Genesis

* David Catchpoole biography by Creation Ministries International.

* From lampooning ‘loonies’ to shouting ‘creation!’: Former atheist scientist tours USA by Michael Matthews, AiG–US. 22 June 2004

http://creationwiki.org/David_Catchpoole

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Критицизам самих еволуциониста према ТЕ:

As stated in the Introduction, evolutionist scientists know perfectly well that not one single branch of science has corroborated their theory and that the whole concept is totally groundless. Yet for the sake of ideology, they continue to defend the theory, even while some evolutionists confess that it’s invalid.

Pierre Paul Grassé is the former president of the French Academy of Sciences and author of the book Evolution of Living Organisms. As he writes:

Today our duty is to destroy the myth of evolution, considered as a simple, understood, and explained phenomenon which keeps rapidly unfolding before us. . . .The deceit is sometimes unconscious, but not always, since some people, owing to their sectarianism, purposely overlook reality and refuse to acknowledge the inadequacies and falsity of their beliefs. 23

After setting out the impossibility of random mutations having met all the needs of the living world, Grassé goes on to say:

There is no law against daydreaming, but science must not indulge in it. 24

Prof. Derek Ager, who is the former president of the British Association for the Advancement of Science (and head of the department of geology and oceanography at University College of Swansea):

It must be significant that nearly all the evolutionary stories I learned as a student . . . have now been debunked.25

Dr. Robert Milikan is a Nobel Prize winner and renowned evolutionist:

The pathetic thing is that we have scientists who are trying to prove evolution, which no scientist can ever prove. 26

Dr. Lewis Thomas, the author of Lives of a Cell:

Biology needs a better word than error for the driving force in evolution. . . . I cannot make my peace with the randomness doctrine; I cannot abide the notion of purposelessness and blind chance in nature. And yet I do not know what to put in its place for the quieting of my mind. 27

Jerry Coyne is of the Chicago University Evolution and Ecology Department:

We conclude—unexpectedly—that there is little evidence for the neo-Darwinian view: its theoretical foundations and the experimental evidence supporting it are weak. 28

H. S. Lipson, the British physicist:

I have always been slightly suspicious of the theory of evolution because of its ability to account for any property of living beings (the long neck of the giraffe, for example).I have therefore tried to see whether biological discoveries over the last thirty years or so fit in with Darwin’s theory. I do not think that they do. To my mind, the theory does not stand up at all. 29

Gregory Alan Pesely is Professor of Philosophy:

One would immediately reject any lexicographer who tried to define a word by the same word, or a thinker who merely restated his proposition, or any other instance of gross redundancy; yet no one seems scandalized that men of science should be satisfied with a major principle which is no more than a tautology. 30

Dr. Colin Patterson is an evolutionist paleontologist and curator of London’s Natural History Museum, editor of the museum’s journal and author of the book Evolution:

Now, one of the reasons I started taking this anti-evolutionary view—well, let’s callt non-evolutionary—was [that] last year I had a sudden realization. For over twenty years, I had thought that I was working on evolution in some way. One morning I woke up, and something had happened in the night, and it struck me that I had been working on this stuff for twenty years, and there was not one thing I knew about it. That was quite a shock, to learn that one can be so misled for so long. . . So for the last few weeks, I’ve tried putting a simple question to various people and groups of people.

The question is this: ‘Can you tell me anything you know about evolution, any one thing, any one thing that you think is true? Is there one thing you can tell me about evolution?’ I tried this question on the geology staff at the Field Museum of Natural History and the only answer I got was silence. I tried it on the members of the Evolutionary Morphology seminar in the University of Chicago— a very prestigious body of evolutionists—and all I got there was silence for a long time. But eventually one person said, ‘I do know one thing—it ought not to be taught in high school.’31

Dr. Albert Fleischman, zoologist at the University of Erlangen:

The Darwinian theory of descent has not a single fact to confirm it in the realm of nature. It is not the result of scientific research, but purely the product of imagination. 32

W. R. Thompson is Head of the Commonwealth Institute of Biological Control in - Ottawa:

This situation, where scientific men rally to the defence of a doctrine they are unableto define scientifically, much less demonstrate with scientific rigour, attempting to maintain its credit with the public by the suppression of criticism and the elimination of difficulties, is abnormal and undesirable in science. 33

Roger Lewin

E. O. Wiley of City University of New York’s, Ichthyology Department and the American Museum of Natural History, expresses his thoughts on Norman Macbeth’s book Darwin Retried:

Macbeth suggests that we try to look at evolution with new eyes, that we admit to the public, and, if needed, to ourselves, that we have misgivings about Darwinism, and the synthetic theory, that we open debate. 34

Roger Lewin is a well-known evolutionist science writer and former editor of New Scientist magazine:

Our intelligence, our reflective consciousness, our extreme technological facility, our complex spoken language, our sense of moral and ethical values—each of these is apparently sufficient to set us apart from nature . . . this gap is an “embarrassment,” something to be explained away. 35

Dr. Nils Heribert-Nilsson, is a Swedish geneticist and Professor of Botany at the University of Lund in Sweden:

My attempts to demonstrate evolution by an experiment carried on for more than 40 years have completely failed. At least I should hardly be accused of having started from any preconceived anti-evolutionary standpoint. 36

Paul Lemoine, a former Director of the National Museum of Natural History at Paris:

The theories of evolution in which our student youth was cradled constitute a dogma that all the world continues to teach. But each in his own specialty, zoologist or botanist, comes to the conclusion that none of the available explanations is adequate. . . . The result of this summary is that the theory of evolution is impossible. 37

Norman Macbeth, a Harvard-trained lawyer, has made the study of Darwinian theory his avocation for many years:

Unfortunately, in the field of evolution most explanations are not good. As a matter of fact, they hardly qualify as explanations at all; they are suggestions, hunches, pipe dreams, hardly worthy of being called hypotheses. 38

Christopher Wills

Prof. Cemal Yıldırım, a Turkish evolutionist, is Professor of Philosophy at Middle East Technical University and visiting scholar at California State University in Northridge:

No scientist, whether be Darwinist or neo-Darwinist, can suggest the notion that the theory of evolution is proven. 39 That’s right, evolution theory is not proven. 40

It is far from being convincing to attribute this order in living things, which seems to have a particular purpose, to chance or coincidence. 41 François Jacob is a professor of cell genetics and winner of the 1965 Nobel Prize for Medicine:

But then again, we are far from having a final explanation regarding the mechanisms of evolution in particular. . . . In addition, we are a very long way from being able to know all the mechanisms at the basis of the universe, as revealed by various observations recently made regarding, for example, the structure of chromosomes. 42

23 Pierre Paul Grassé, Evolution of Living Organisms, New York: Academic Press, 1977, p. 8.

24 Ibid., p. 103.

25 Derek Ager, “The Nature of the Fossil Record.” Proceedings of the Geological Association, Vol. 87, No. 2, 1976, p. 132.

26 SBS Vital Topics, David B. Loughran, April 1996, Stewarton Bible School, Stewarton, Scotland, URL:http://www.rmplc.co.uk/eduweb/ sites/sbs777/vital/evolutio.html

27 Lewis Thomas, “On the Uncertainty of Science,” Key Reporter, Vol. 46 (Autumn 1980), p. 2.

28 H.A. Orr and Jerry Coyne (1992), “The Genetics of Adaptation: A Reassessment,” American Naturalist, pp. 140, 726.

29 H. S. Lipson, “A Physicist Look at Evolution,” Physics Bulletin, 31 (1980), p. 138.

30 G.A. Peseley, “The Epistemological Status of Natural Selection,” Laval Theologique et Philosophique, Vol. 38 (Feb. 1982), p. 74.

31 Dr. Colin Patterson, “Evolution and Creationism: Can You Tell Me Anything About Evolution?”

32 November 1981 Presentation at the American Museum of Natural History, New York City.

33 http://www.rmplc.co.uk/eduweb/sites/sbs777/vital/evolutio.html

34 Charles Darwin, Introduction to The Origin of Species, 6th Edition (1956) p. xxii.

35 E.O.Wiley, “Review of Darwin Retried by MacBeth.” Systematic Zoology, Vol. 24 (June. 1975), p. 270.

36 Roger Lewin, In the Age of Mankind, Washington D.C.: Smithsonian Books, 1988. p. 22.

37 Heribert Nilsson, Synthetische Artbildung (lund, Swewden: Verlag CWK Gleerup, 1953), p. 31.

38 Introduction: De (Evolution), Encyclopedie Française, Vol. 5 (1937) p. 6.

39 Norman Macbeth, Darwin Retried: An Appeal to Reason, Boston: Gambit, 1971, p. 147

40 Cemal Yildirim, Evrim Kurami ve Bagnazlik [“The Theory of Evolution and Bigotry”], Bilgi Publishing, January 1989, pp. 56-57.

41 Ibid., p. 131.

42 Ibid., p. 108.

http://www.confessionsofevolutionists.com/03.htm

[Guest Alefshin]

Brent Carter

Brent H. Carter is a Consulting Engineering Geologist and Diving Specialist for underwater investigations of dams. He earned his Bachelors degree in geology with a minor in civil engineering from Oregon State University . He is a Licensed Geologist, Engineering Geologist and Commercial Diver. He recently retired from the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, Pacific Northwest Regional Office where he served as Chief Geologist and Diving Officer for 42 years. Brent lives in Boise with his wife Beverly of 47 years. They have 5 children and 11 grandchildren.

Brent is the Chairman of Foundations In Genesis of Idaho.

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Gary Locklair

Dr. Gary H. Locklair earned a B.A. Chemistry, a B.S. Computer Science at California State University, Sacramento and an M.S. Computer Science at the University of Idaho. He also earned a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Nova Southeastern University and has completed the L.C.M.S. education colloquy. He is a Professor and Chair of Computer Science at Concordia University Wisconsin since 1986 and he is also on the board of the Creation Research Society (CRS).

Gary Locklair

Address: Concordia University Wisconsin

12800 N. Lake Shore Drive

Mequon, WI 53097

Phone: 262-243-4217

Email: [email protected]

Contents

* 1 Publications

* 2 Doctrine of Creation - Bible Study

* 3 References

* 4 See Also

Publications

* Planets_or_Preconceptions? by Gary Locklair. Creation Matters Volume 2, Number 2 March/April 1997.

* publication title description (i.e. book, journal, volume, etc.)

* publication title description (i.e. book, journal, volume, etc.)

http://creationwiki.org/Gary_Locklair

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Ronald Samec

Ronald George Samec Received his initial education from the University of South Florida. He first worked to receive his B.A. in Astronomy and then followed up with more schooling to receive his M.S. in science education. The final step he took in order to finalize his education years was to work diligently on receiving his Ph.D. in physics at Clemson university. He is currently employed at Bob Jones University as he has been since 1996.

Contents

* 1 Creation Missions

* 2 Organizations

* 3 Publications

* 4 References

* 5 See Also

Creation Missions

Over the years, he has spent time studying variations of stars. Photoelectric, and CCD photometry and spectroscopy and analysis of light and radial velocity curves of neglected eclipsing binary systems. Synthetic light curve techniques. Star spot modeling in close binary systems, Studying Contact and Near Contact Solar-type Eclipsing Binaries and Eclipsing Binary Stars as tests of Relativistic Gravity. Mr. Samec has gone on to teach on a variety of subjects which were close to his heart. He spent time working in schools teaching physics, astronomy 1 and 2, as well as mechanics. Before that, he was the public observatory director in a planetarium at Buttler University in Indianapolis. He is a strong proponent for creationism. His numerous observations of the stars in his astronomy courses and studies has led him to trust and believe in God's creation of it all. He is currently a member of staff for the Institution for Creation Research, creating a large number of discoveries as well as arguments for his theories in planetary and astrological fields. he currently spends time with a children's church outreach missionary (for Easley Area children and teens), in Faith Baptist Church, Easley, SC. he is also on the board for the creation research society .

Organizations

Ronald has been actively involved in a many organizations which include the following:

* American Physical Society (APS)

* American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT)

* American Astronomical Society (AAS)

* Astronomical Society of the Pacific (ASP)

* Council on Undergraduate Research (CUR)

* International Astronomical Union (IAU)

* International Amateur-Professional Photoelectric Photometry (IAPPP)

* Society of Physics Students (SPS)

* Sigma Pi Sigma (SPS)

http://creationwiki.org/Ronald_Samec

[Guest Alefshin]

Todd Wood

BiographyTodd C. Wood education consisted of B.S. Biology, Liberty University, Virginia in 1994. He got his Ph.D. in Biochemistry, University of Virginia in 1999. Also attended Genomics, University of Clemson in 2000 and earned a post-doctrine. Todd Wood's professioal expeirence include assistant professor of natural sciences, at Bryan College in Teniasee from 2000 to now. Also as an adjunct professor at the Department of Crop and Soil at the University of Clemson. He also worked as a reasearch assistant at the University of Clemson.[1]He also has many creatioist publications.[2]

Todd Wood aslo worked on the HybriDatabase: A Computer Repository of Organismal Data. He was able to gather a list of fertail animals that had been hybridized. The database is huge,not only listings mammals and birds but, insects, flowers, aquatic and marine life and many more. The data base is on the Bryan College website.[3] In 1996 Ashley Robinson designed the hybrid database, then the database was pushed to the side for four years. In 2000 Todd Wood brought the database back and started to gather information. He added the database to the Bryan college server. The database remains posted the the colleges website.

Todd Wood [4]

Office Phone:423-775-7277

Email:[email protected]

PO Box 7000

Dayton TN 37321

Publications

* Todd C. Wood, Ph.D. Biochemistry/Genomics Biography by Institute for Creation Research

* Two of Every Kind Answers Magazine 2(2):32-34, 2007.

* Ancient DNA A bimonthly newsletter of the Creation Research Society. 1(6),1996.

* Was There Really Life on Mars A bimonthly newsletter of the Creation Research Society. 1(5),1996.

* Wood TC. 2001. Genome decay in the mycoplasmas. Impact 340.

* The Terror of Anthrax in a Degrading Creation

* The Human Genome: A Creationist Overview

http://creationwiki.org/Todd_Wood

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Karl Priest

Karl Priest is a retired public school mathematics teacher from Andrew Jackson Middle School near Charleston, WV. He has a B.S. in education and an M.A. in school administration and has been an educator (K-9—including 4 years as a principal) for over 30 years.

For the last five years of his full-time career, with the full knowledge of State, County, and ACLU officials, he demonstrated to his students that mathematics proves beyond the shadow of doubt that evolutionism is nonsense. The students saw that the evidence clearly shows that every item associated with humans, animals and plants are Intelligent Designs and Intelligent Design is science because it is observable by billions of people trillions of times, always has been, and always will be. He always let them figure it out for themselves and he allowed them to believe what they chose, but at least they were exposed to the scientific facts that extremists want to censor from the minds of government school students. After one lesson a student from an atheist family said, "Evolution is silly."

Currently, as a substitute teacher, Karl has contact with more public school students than ever and takes advantage of every opportunity to provide them with the facts described above.

Karl says that evolutionists are bluffing when they say their beliefs are scientific. To back this claim Karl cites the list of evolutionists who refuse the debate challenge from Dr. Joseph Mastropaolo. See the list at http://www.lifescienceprize.org/. Click on the Life Science Prize at the bottom.

http://creationwiki.org/Karl_Priest

[Guest Alefshin]

Spike Psarris

Spike Psarris has a Bachelor's of Science in Electrical Engineering from the University of Massachusetts, and has done graduate work in Physics. For a number of years, he was an engineer in the U.S. military space program. He went into the U.S. military space program as an atheist and committed evolutionist, and came out of it as a young-earth creationist and Christian.

Spike Psarris

Email: [email protected]

Contents

* 1 Publications

o 1.1 Articles

o 1.2 Videos

* 2 References

* 3 See Also

Publications

Articles

* Uranus Creation 24(3):38–40 June 2002

* Mercury—the tiny planet that causes big problems for evolution Creation 26(4):36–39 September 2004

* Neptune: monument to creation Creation 5(1):22–24 December 2002

Videos

* Our Created Solar System Recorded at the Seattle Creation Conference. August 2006.

* Our Created Universe Recorded at the Seattle Creation Conference. August 2007.

References

* Seattle Creation Conference Website

http://creationwiki.org/Spike_Psarris

[Guest Alefshin]

Paul Nation

As a living-pterosaur investigator, Paul Nation, of Granbury, Texas, conducted brief expeditions in Papua New Guinea in 1994 (with Carl Baugh), 2002, 2006, and early 2007 (Nation became involved in living-pterosaur expeditions because of his professional experience handling large ratites--flightless birds like ostriches--and their eggs). The earlier two expeditions were searching for the ropen of Umboi Island; the latter two, for the indava of the mainland interior. Investigators, also including Jonathan Whitcomb and Garth Guessman, believe that these two creatures are similar or related living pterosaurs, both with intrinsic bioluminescent capability. Nation also facilitated preparations for the two expeditions of 2004.

His expedition of late 2006, with Jacob Kepas, resulted in many nighttime sightings and he videotaped two indava lights on a ridge above one of his camps. This video footage was analyzed by a missile defense physicist [1] in early 2007, verifying that the two light sources were not created by hoax, camera artifacts, meteors, airplanes, auto headlights, or lanterns.

Nation's March-2007 expedition resulted in a method for differentiating between distant automobile headlights and indava lights. The brilliant white light of a distant headlight seems to move slowing with an erratic heading (roads are not straight in the mountains). The indava light is often yellow, dimmer, and usually moves above the tree canopy and in a straight heading.

"Living fossil" investigations are a branch of cryptozoology usually related to creationism.

Paul G. Nation

2805 Neptune Ct.

Granbury, Texas 76409

817 573-4216

Email: [email protected]

Publications

* Searching for Ropen (video, produced by Whitcomb Video Productions, 2004)

References

* Glowing Creatures Videotaped press release (2006 expedition by Paul Nation)

* Indava and ropen of Papua New Guinea

* Early ropen expeditions

* difficulties photographing ropens

* Whitcomb, Jonathan. Searching for Ropens. California: Bookshelf Press, 2006.

* Searching for Ropens

See Also

* Cryptozoology

* Ropen

* Indava

* Living fossil

http://creationwiki.org/Paul_Nation

[Guest Alefshin]

Vance Nelson

Vance Nelson is the director of Creation Truth Ministries, and the owner of the largest traveling Creation museum in Canada. He holds two earned degrees. He earned a theology degree from North American Baptist College in 1997 (Bachelor of Religion with a specialization in Christian ministry). Vance also earned a science degree in 2002 (Bachelor of Science in biology). Vance has also studied concepts relating to creation and evolution at the college level (10 credit-hours directly relating to origin science).

He has appeared on National (Canadian) and International television.

Vance Nelson

Creation Truth Ministries

Box 25147

Deer Park P.O.

Red Deer, Alberta T4R 2M2 Canada

Phone: 403-348-5644

Website: http://creationtruthministries.org

Email: [email protected]

http://creationwiki.org/Vance_Nelson

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Alister McGrath

Alister E. McGrath (born January 23, 1953) is a Christian theologian, with a background in molecular biophysics, noted for his work on historical, systematic and scientific theology.

In his writing and public speaking, he promotes "scientific theology" and opposes atheism. McGrath was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, and is currently Professor of Historical Theology at the University of Oxford. He was until 2005 Principal of Wycliffe Hall.

Contents

* 1 Biography

* 2 Writings

* 3 References

* 4 Bibliography

* 5 External links

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McGrath was born in Belfast and grew up in Downpatrick, Co. Down, where he attended Down High School. In September 1966 he became a pupil at the Methodist College Belfast, where his studies focused on mathematics, physics and chemistry. He went up to Wadham College, Oxford in 1971 and gained first class honours in chemistry in 1975. He began research in molecular biophysics in the Oxford University Department of Biochemistry under the supervision of Professor Sir George Radda, FRS and was elected to an E.P.A. Cephalosporin Research Studentship at Linacre College, Oxford, for the academic year 1975-6, and to a Domus Senior Scholarship at Merton College, Oxford, for the period 1976-8. During these three years, he carried out scientific research alongside studying for the Oxford University Final Honour School of Theology[1]. He was awarded an Oxford D.Phil. for his research in molecular biophysics (December 1977), and gained first class honors in Theology in June 1978.

McGrath then left Oxford to work at Cambridge University, where he also studied for ordination into the Church of England. In September 1980, he was ordained deacon, and began work as a curate at St Leonard's Parish Church, Wollaton, Nottingham, in the English East Midlands. In 1983, he was appointed lecturer in Christian doctrine and ethics at Wycliffe Hall, Oxford, and a member of the Oxford University Faculty of Theology. McGrath spent the fall semester of 1990 as the Ezra Squire Tipple Visiting Professor of Historical Theology at the Divinity School of Drew University, Madison, New Jersey.

McGrath was elected University Research Lecturer in Theology at Oxford University in 1993, and also served as research professor of theology at Regent College, Vancouver, from 1993-1999. In 1995, he was elected Principal of Wycliffe Hall, and in 1999, was awarded a personal chair in theology by Oxford University, with the title "Professor of Historical Theology". He was awarded an Oxford Doctorate of Divinity in 2001 for his research on historical and systematic theology.

McGrath is a prolific writer. His work often refers both to the early Church Fathers and to contemporary evangelical stalwarts such as Thomas Torrance and J. I. Packer. McGrath seems to be a part of the paleo-orthodox movement, which encourages reflection upon the patristics and the influential members of the early church. His areas of expertise include doctrine, Church history, the interaction of science and faith, and evangelical spirituality.

In 2004 McGrath suggested in The Twilight of Atheism that atheism was in decline.

He has been highly critical of Richard Dawkins, calling him "embarrassingly ignorant of Christian theology". His book: The Dawkins Delusion? – a response to Dawkins's The God Delusion – was published by SPCK in February 2007, and the two had public debate recently on the topic, "Does religious belief damage the health of a society, or is it necessary to provide the moral and ethical foundations of a healthy society?"[2] McGrath has also debated with Daniel Dennett, at the Greer-Heard Point-Counterpoint Forum (February 2007) in New Orleans.

He was interviewed by Richard Dawkins about his book Dawkins' God and faith in general for the television documentary The Root of All Evil? McGrath's interview was not included in the final cut, but the unedited footage is available online.

In 2005 he resigned as Principal of Wycliffe Hall, whilst remaining President of the Oxford Centre for Christian Apologetics which was based there. In June 2007 a private letter expressing his concerns about his successor was leaked[3].

Writings

Among McGrath's more notable works are:

* Christianity's Dangerous : The Protestant Revolution — A History from the Sixteenth Century to the Twenty-First (2007) ISBN 0060822139

* The Dawkins Delusion? (2007) ISBN 0-281-05927-6 A critical response to Dawkins' book The God Delusion

* Dawkins' God: Genes, Memes, and the Meaning of Life (2005) ISBN 1-4051-2538-1 A critique of scientist Richard Dawkins' hostile attitude towards religion

* The Twilight of Atheism: The Rise and Fall of Disbelief in the Modern World (2004) ISBN 0-385-50061-0

* A Scientific Theology v. 3 (2003) ISBN 0-567-08349-7

* Knowing Christ (2002) ISBN 0-385-50316-4

* Christian Theology: An Introduction (2001) ISBN 0-631-22528-5 (often used as a seminary textbook)

* The Christian Theology Reader (2001) ISBN 0-631-20637-X (containing primary sources referred to in his Christian Theology)

* In the Beginning : The Story of the King James Bible and How It Changed a Nation, a Language,and a Culture (2001) ISBN 0-385-72216-8

* Glimpsing the Face of God: The Search for Meaning in the Universe (2001) ISBN 0-8028-3980-0

* T. F. Torrance: An Intellectual Biography (1999) ISBN 0-567-08683-6

* Historical Theology: An Introduction to the History of Christian Thought (1998) ISBN 0-631-20844-5

* Science and Religion: An Introduction (1998) ISBN 0-631-20842-9

* "I Believe": Exploring the Apostles' Creed (1998) ISBN 0-8308-1946-0

* A Passion for Truth: The Intellectual Coherence of Evangelicalism (1996) ISBN 0-8308-1866-9

* Intellectuals Don't Need God and Other Modern Myths (1993) ISBN 0-310-59091-4

* A Life of John Calvin (1993) ISBN 0-631-18947-5

* Understanding Doctrine (1992) ISBN 0-310-47951-7

* Bridge-Building: Effective Christian Apologetics (1992) ISBN 0-85110-969-1

* Understanding the Trinity (1988) ISBN 0-310-29680-3

* Iustitia Dei: A History of the Christian Doctrine of Justification (1986) ISBN 0-521-62426-6

References

1. ^ Biography on official website

2. ^ Audio Visual Resources. Ravi Zacharias International Ministries. Retrieved on 2007-04-07.

3. ^ Text here

Bibliography

* Chung, S. W. (ed.). Alister E. McGrath and Evangelical Theology: A Dynamic Engagement. Carlisle: Paternoster, 2003.

* Keating, James F. "The Natural Sciences as an Ancilla Theologiae Nova: Alister E. McGrath's A Scientific Theology." The Thomist 69 (2005): 127-52.

* Myers, Benjamin. "Alister McGrath's Scientific Theology." Reformed Theological Review 64 (2005): 15-34.

* Shipway, Brad. "The Theological Application of Bhaskar's Stratified Reality: The Scientific Theology of A. E. McGrath." Journal of Critical Realism 3 (2004): 191-203.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alister_McGrath

Former Atheist Alister McGrath - Discussing The God Delusion

[Guest Alefshin]

Eugene Chaffin

Eugene F. Chaffin has a Ph.D. in theoretical physics from Oklahoma State University. He formerly taught at Bluefield College in Virginia, at the Naval Nuclear Power School, and held a postdoctoral research position in Karlsruhe, Germany. Since 1999 he has taught physics at Bob Jones University, Greenville, South Carolina.

For the past eight years he has been a member of the RATE group (Radioisotopes and the Age of the Earth), doing physics research on mechanisms for accelerated nuclear decay. He has served on the board of the Creation Research Society since 1988, and also the physics editor for the Creation Research Society Quarterly.

Publications

* A Mechanism for Accelerated Radioactive Decay by Eugene F. Chaffin CRSQ Vol 7 No1 (pp3 - 9) June 2000

* The Difficulty in Obtaining Realistic Conclusions About Variable Constants by Eugene F. Chaffin. CRSQ Vol 27 No 1 June, 1990

* A Young Earth? - A Survey of Dating Methods by Eugene F. Chaffin. CRSQ Vol 24 No 3 December 1987

* Accelerated Decay: Theoretical Models by Eugene Chaffin

* Radioisotopes and the Age of the Earth by Larry Vardiman, Andrew Snelling, and Eugene Chaffin is a young-earth creationist research initiative of the Institute for Creation Research and Creation Research Society. 675 pages. Hardcover. ISBN: 0-932766-19-6

http://creationwiki.org/Eugene_Chaffin

[Guest Alefshin]

Gary Bates

Gary Bates is a former a committed evolutionist, who is now an active creation evangelist who has been involved with the creation/evolution debate since 1990. He is currently the head of ministry for Creation Ministries International in Australia.

He is also a regular contributor to Creation Magazine, and is on the magazine's editorial staff.

Bates has a keen interest in the UFO phenomenon and wrote the Amazon.com top 50 bestseller Alien Intrusion: UFOs and the Evolution Connection.

http://creationwiki.org/Gary_Bates

Aliens, UFOs and the Bible: Part 1