Gary Bates

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 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 alien life on other planets. 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. A selection of his articles are listed below:

• 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?

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