Andrew Sibley

Biography

Andrew Sibley worked as a meteorologist with the UK Met Office for 38 years before taking early retirement in 2021 to allow more time to engage in creation ministry with CMI, and sharing the gospel as a church elder. During his career, scientific specialisms were gained in weather observing and forecasting, and presenting the weather on BBC Radio Wales. Opportunities for travel led to time spent in Wales, Scotland, and England, and ten months in the Falkland Islands working alongside penguins and sea lions. He is married to Hydee, a Filipino, which has led to further travel to the Philippines and trying to learn the Bontoc dialect.

In later years his forecasting activity was focused upon monitoring and responding to environmental impacts at a national and international level; more specifically plume modelling of chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear incidents, and Icelandic volcanoes. Andrew was also engaged in the development of a space weather forecasting programme as the lead forecaster, and subject matter expert. This involved pulling research through into the operational environment, and travel to America, Asia and Europe working with governmental partners and occasionally giving presentations.

Andrew has published a number of papers in the field of meteorology, gained Chartered Meteorologist accreditation, and recently served on the board of the Weather journal, including as an associate editor. He has a B.Sc. (Hons.) in the natural sciences from the Open University (UK), and completed an M.Sc. in Environmental Decision Making in 2003 with the same institution. He also gained an M.Phil in theology from Exeter University (UK); his dissertation was Intelligent Design: Scientific and Theological Perspectives. He is the author of a number of books; including Restoring the Ethics of Creation and Cracking the Darwin Code: Exploring the non-scientific foundations of deep-time and evolution.

Already a frequent contributor to CMI’s publications, he joined CMI-UK/Europe as an associate speaker and writer in February 2021, then came on staff in August 2021.

Education:

• B.Sc. (Hons) in natural sciences, Open University (UK)
• M.Sc. Environmental Decision Making, Open University (UK)
• M.Phil. Theology, University of Exeter

A selection of his creation-related articles can be seen below.

Creation magazine

• The French connection, Creation 42(2):53–55, April 2020.
• The Jurassic Coast—Icon for the Genesis Flood

Journal of Creation

• The Pinatubo eruption—catastrophic pyroclastic flows and lahars
• Orang-outang or Homo sylvestris: ape-men before Darwin
• Deep time in 18^th-century France—part 1: a developing belief
• Deep time in 18^th century France—part 2: influence upon geology and evolution in 18^th and 19^th century Britain
• Origen, origins, and allegory
• Superflares and the origin of life on Earth
• The Jurassic Coast—Icon for the Genesis Flood
• Adam as the protoplast—views from the early church in response to the archetypal view
• Exploring Intelligent Design language in Genesis 2 and Acts 17—yatsar and poieō
• Variable radioactive decay rates and the changes in solar activity
• In depth: Augustine’s on the literal meaning of Genesis
• Helium-3 capture in lunar regolith and the age of the moon
• Creationism and millennialism among the Church Fathers
• Bathybius haeckelii and a ‘reign of terror’
• Chinese fossil layers and the uniformitarian re-dating of the Jehol Group
• A fresh look at Nebraska man
• Variable speed of light research gets a boost: a review of Faster Than the Speed of Light: The Story of a Scientific Speculation, by João Magueijo
• Post-glacial flooding of coastal margins within the biblical timeframe of Peleg
• Likely causes of the Ice Age

Other articles on creation.com

• William Pengelly’s Brixham cave excavations, and belief in the antiquity of man
• Hope in the Resurrection of Christ
• Mars dust may be the source of the Zodiacal lights
• Creation science and the discipline of study
• Elohim, Adam, and the divine relationship with humanity
• The Fagradalsfjall–Geldingadalir eruption of 2021, and other Icelandic volcanoes
• The incarnation of Jesus and miracles
• The inhuman nature of secular humanism
• Darwin’s statue, racism, and the Natural History Museum, London
• Remembering Bill Cooper (1947–2021)
• The conflict between conservation and Darwinian natural selection
• Richard Dawkins, anti-Christian language and the rise of science
• Further restrictive legislation to keep Creation out of UK state-funded schools
• Secular Humanists seek to ban origins debate in the UK education system

Feedback

• What type of body did Jesus have before the Incarnation?
• Why would a designer leave debris floating in space?

Non-CMI publications

• Oard, M.J., Matthews J.D., Sibley, A., The Jurassic Coast: Evidence for the Flood, CRSQ 51(2):113–127, 2014.
• Sibley, A., The Nature and Character of God, in: Nevin, N.C., (Ed.) Should Christians Embrace Evolution: Biblical & Scientific Responses, IVP Press, Nottingham, UK, pp. 93–107, 2009.
• Sibley, A., FitzRoy, Captain of the Beagle, Fierce Critic of Darwinism, Impact, Institute for Creation Research, November 2005.
• Sibley, A., A Photon Reference Frame and Distant Starlight: Analyzing Ideas from Gerald L. Schroeder’s The Science of God, Answers Research Journal, 14 May 2014.

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