Creation Ministries International

Gary has been speaking on the creation/evolution issue since 1990. For many years this was in a voluntary capacity as leader of the Western Australian Support Group of CMI-Aust. With a background in management and marketing, in 2002, he was invited to join the ministry full-time in Brisbane and eventually became its Head of Ministry. Much in demand for his popular lay talks on creation, in 2009, Gary and his family relocated to America to serve as CEO of CMI-US. He was also elected to the position of CEO of CMI-Worldwide, CMI’s international Federation of ministries.

Once a convinced evolutionist, the Creation message had a dramatic impact on Gary's life. He is now a young-Earth creationist with a heart to communicate this life-changing information to the average ‘person in the street’.

Concerned about the tremendous interest in UFOs and associated extraterrestrial beliefs, Gary undertook specialist research in an attempt to solve this seemingly baffling phenomenon. This led to his Amazon.com top 50 bestseller Alien Intrusion: UFOs and the Evolution Connection (the only Creationist book ever to achieve this feat). This landmark book provides biblical answers to the many puzzling questions regarding UFOs, and whether there is there intelligent, sentient alien life on other planets (our theological position on this is no. Please read the first article below for why). As a leading Christian authority in this area, Gary has travelled extensively around the world, speaking and conducting literally hundreds of interviews on radio, television and various media.

He is married to Frances (an experienced event manager for CMI) and they have four children.

Gary is also on the editorial staff and a regular contributor to Creation magazine and this website. A selection of his articles are listed below:

• Does the UFO phenomenon marginalize the Christian worldview?
• Truth decay: Will revival come in a compromised Church?
• Has the Kepler spacecraft found an ‘alien world’?
• Refuting compromising critic of CMI seminar
• What would life be like without creation ministries?
• Did God create over billions of years?
• Religious spin merchants
• Redressing the imbalance
• We are … biblical creationists?
• Why do children lose their trust in the Bible?
• Not just another book on ‘Why me, Lord?’
• Raising godly children (an interview with Gary Bates)
• Aliens in your bedroom? (an interview with Gary Bates)
• Did God create life on other planets? Otherwise why is the universe so big?
• Patriarchs of the forest (old trees suggest a recent creation)
• Jesus, teaching the big picture from Genesis
• Dealing with difficult issues
• Why doesn’t the church taste good any more?
• Evolution and the science of fiction: A denial of the awesome Creator
• Designed by aliens? Discoverers of DNA’s structure attack Christianity
• UFOs and aliens — is there something going on?
• Global warming might become an ‘alien agenda’
• Hosing down the hype
• Seeing a way through the forest
• What really happened at Roswell?
• ‘Plugging the back door’
• Legalizing abortion — no-one is safe anymore: Compromise on ‘made in the image of God’ is taking us into Hitler’s gas chambers
• Death of a guru
• Australia’s worst-ever bushfire disaster
• Churches celebrating the ‘Year of Darwin’
• Foxes crying foul in the henhouse!
• Is ‘string’ the next big thing?
• Who were the sons of God in Genesis 6? (from Alien Intrusion)
• Multiverse theory—unknown science or illogical raison d’être
• Christians shaped by experiences rather than the ‘Bible first’ approach
• Reaching out at Roswell
• The UFO phenomenon—growing and not going away!
• The Fourth Kind movie review
• Reaction to CMI’s review of The Fourth Kind
• Are young-earth creationists irrational knuckle-brains?
• Haiti’s horrendous earthquake disaster
• Does CMI believe in an old earth?
• Is it ‘unjust’ that the whole creation should suffer because of Adam’s sin? and Is long-age creationist a misnomer?
• Avatar Aspirations: Sci fi helps create an alternate belief system
• Dispensing the cure for a sick society
• Dealing with the heart of the problem
• Catching the vision—an amazing story!
• ‘What goes up … ’
• Alien Apologetics
• Alien & skeptics
• Aliens, evolution and the occult
• Christians ‘ducking and weaving’ on campus
• Creation—now on the table!
• An awesome mind
• Muslims agree that the church should stop watering down the message
• Exploding the big bang!
• Fast food giant firms up alien beliefs
• ET needed evolution
• Is the Bible falsifiable?
• Is the Bible falsifiable? And would a real live ET do it?
• NASA astronaut Ed Mitchell says aliens are with us
• Off the planet!
• One ‘Harmless’ Movie
• Out of this world!
• The return of the Nephilim?
• Saved via aliens?
• SETI-religion or science?
• SETI—coming in from the cold of space
• Still running for God
• That quote!—about the missing transitional fossils
• The Battle of Chang-Sha
• The bottom line—it’s about people!
• The war of the worlds comes down to Earth
• Water, water, where are you?
• Who’s transforming our society?
• ‘A donkey for Jesus’
• Back on solid ground
• Christians shaped by experiences rather than the ‘Bible first’ approach
• Signs the movie—God vs the aliens!
• String theory “philosophy”challenged
• Can bunny rabbits be saved?
• Absolute truth—and winning the ‘culture wars”
• Doctor to the disadvantaged
• How to reach into schools without reaching into schools!
• Pew survey reveals basic ignorance of Christian belief
• Martian Fossils? Dissecting the media hype
• Compromising chaplain castigates creation, round 2
• Are ghosts real? Are people really communicating with the spirits of the dead?
• Prepare ye the way—the aliens are coming!
• Is the whole creation fallen?
• Does Creation make the Gospel a laughing stock?
• What about ghost sightings?
• Racism—a consequence of evolution?
• UFOlogy: the world’s fastest-growing ‘scientific’ religion?
• Confirmations from creationist cosmology and countering ‘close encounters’

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