Biography
Creationist Physical Chemist and Spectroscopist
Dr Jonathan Sarfati was born in Ararat, Australia in 1964. He moved to New Zealand as a child and later studied science at Victoria University of Wellington. Dr Sarfati holds citizenships of Australia, New Zealand, and the USA. He obtained a B.Sc. (Hons.) in Chemistry with two physics papers substituted (nuclear and condensed matter physics). His Ph.D. in Chemistry was awarded for a thesis entitled ‘A Spectroscopic Study of some Chalcogenide Ring and Cage Molecules’. He has co-authored papers in mainstream scientific journals on high temperature superconductors and selenium-containing ring and cage-shaped molecules. He also had a co-authored paper on high-temperature superconductors published in Nature when he was 22.
Dr Sarfati has been a Christian since 1984. He has long been interested in apologetics, the defense of the faith, and was a co-founder of the Wellington Christian Apologetics Society (New Zealand). Creation vs evolution is of course a vital area, because of the ramifications for the doctrines of Creation, the Fall which brought death into the world, and their links to the doctrines of the Incarnation, Atonement and Bodily Resurrection of the God-man Jesus Christ.
Dr Sarfati is married to Sherry and they enjoy spending time with their three grand-daughters.
In August 1996, he returned to the country of his birth to take up a position as a research scientist and editorial consultant for Creation Ministries International in Brisbane. In this capacity, he is co-editor of Creation magazine, and also writes and reviews articles for Journal of Creation, CMI’s in-depth peer-reviewed publication, as well as contributing to CMI’s creation.com website.
In 1999, his first book was published—Refuting Evolution, which countered a teachers guidebook by the National Academy of Sciences, Teaching about Evolution and the Nature of Science, which had been widely circulated and publicized. Refuting Evolution now has 450,000 copies in print. Later that year he was a co-author of the updated and expanded Answers Book [note: now entitled The Creation Answers Book], answering 20 of the most-asked questions about creation/evolution. He later wrote Refuting Evolution 2, countering the PBS Evolution series and an anticreationist article in Scientific American.
In 2004, he wrote Refuting Compromise, defending a straightforward biblical creation timeline and a global flood, and answering biblical and scientific objections, concentrating on the errant teachings of day-age/local flood advocate Hugh Ross. It has been acclaimed as ‘the most powerful biblical and scientific defense of a straightforward view of Genesis creation ever written!’ See the introductory chapter and some reviews.
In 2006, he co-authored 15 Reasons to Take Genesis as History with Don Batten, as a concise reference guide for Christians, including pastors and theologians, why Genesis can be trusted as real history of Creation about 6000 years ago and a global Flood.
In 2008, he finished By Design: Evidence for nature’s Intelligent Designer—the God of the Bible. This demonstrates many examples of design in many areas, shows why chemical evolution can’t explain the origin of first life, and answers many objections to the Intelligent Design movement by invoking the biblical Creation-Fall model.
In 2010, Dr Sarfati wrote The Greatest Hoax on Earth? Refuting Dawkins on evolution, a response to leading atheopath Richard Dawkins’ latest book The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution (see website).
That year, Dr Sarfati emigrated to the USA with his wife to work in the CMI–USA office as author, speaker, apologist, and Head Scientist.
In 2012, he considerably expanded and updated a classic general apologetics book, Christianity for Skeptics, by Dr Steve Kumar of New Zealand. This presents a positive case for the existence of God, the inspiration of the Bible, and the divinity and resurrection of Christ, and answers challenges from suffering, atheism, Eastern philosophy, and Islam. The update now also contains cutting edge material on design in nature, the Christian roots of science, and answering the ‘new atheists’.
In 2015, Dr Sarfati wrote probably his most important and comprehensive book yet: The Genesis Account: A theological, historical, and scientific commentary on Genesis 1–11, almost 800 pages long.
In 2022, Dr Sarfati co-authored (with Joel Tay) Titans of the Earth, Sea, and Air, possibly the most comprehensive dinosaur book ever written from a biblical creationist perspective.

Dr Sarfati is also a keen chess player. He is a former New Zealand Chess Champion, and represented New Zealand in three Chess Olympiads, and drew with Boris Spassky, world champion 1969–1972, in a tournament game (those interested in the game score can see this chess site). In 1988, F.I.D.E., the International Chess Federation, awarded him the title of F.I.D.E. Master (FM). Dr Sarfati regularly accepts challenges from multiple players where he plays ‘blindfold’, i.e. from memory without sight or any physical contact with the board, so moves are communicated via a recognized chess notation (See an example at the Croydon Chess Club). Twelve is the most played simultaneously to date—see photo, left.
Education
- B.Sc. (Hons.) in Chemistry (with condensed matter and nuclear physics papers substituted)
- Ph.D. in Spectroscopy (Physical Chemistry)
Honors/Awards/Associations
- 1988: New Zealand Chess Champion
- 1988: F.I.D.E. Master title, The International Chess Federation
Publications
Books
Dr Sarfati as sole author
- Refuting Evolution; See index of online chapters, and free chapter study guides
- Refuting Evolution 2; See index of online chapters.
- Refuting Compromise: A biblical and scientific refutation of ‘progressive creationism’ (billions of years) as popularized by astronomer Hugh Ross; See introductory chapter and reviews and The History of Interpretation of Genesis 1–11 (Chapter 3 plus part of Chapter 8).
- By Design: Evidence for nature’s Intelligent Designer—the God of the Bible; See extract: The Prostate Gland—is it ‘badly designed’? Countering design critics, and guest reviews of the book by ‘Nate’ and by an engineering student.
- The Greatest Hoax on Earth? Refuting Dawkins on evolution. See website, and extract
- The Genesis Account: A theological, historical, and scientific commentary on Genesis 1–11. See reviews. Now available in E-book and Mobi versions.
- Mammoth: Riddle of the Ice Age (Booklet)
- Why would a loving God allow death and suffering? (Booklet)
- Christianity for Skeptics
- Busting Myths - 30 Ph.D. scientists who believe the Bible and its account of origins (with Gary Bates)
- Titans of the Earth, Sea, and Air (with Joel Tay)
- The Creation Answers Book (edited by Don Batten) with David Catchpoole and Dr Carl Wieland) (available in Albanian, Dutch, German, Hungarian, Russian and Spanish). See index of online chapters and free chapter study guides.
- Answers to the 4 Big Questions (edited by Dr Don Batten; with Ken Ham & Dr Carl Wieland)
- 15 Reasons to Take Genesis as History (with Dr Don Batten)
- The Genesis Files: Meet 22 Modern-Day Scientists Who Believe in a Six-Day Recent Creation (One of the interviews is with Dr Sarfati)
- In Six Days: Why 50 [Ph.D.] Scientists Choose to Believe in Creation (Dr Sarfati contributed one of the chapters)
Books co-authored by Dr Sarfati
DVDs
- Chemicals to Living Cell: Fantasy or Science?
- Jesus in Genesis: The Messianic Prophecies
- Arguments Creationists Should NOT Use
- Leaving Your Brains at the Church Door? The power of logic in defending your faith.
- Evolution and the Holocaust
- God the Master Designer
- Six Days … Really? Refuting compromise from the Scriptures
- Are Miracles Scientific?
- The Christian Roots of Science
- Bioethics [Animal welfare vs animal rights, Eugenics and euthanasia, Abortion, Cloning and stem cells, etc.]
- Refuting the New Atheists
- Retaking The Ground DVD Mini-Series with Dr Tas Walker
- The Greatest Hoax on Earth (Video download)
- The Incarnation (Video download)
Creation science articles
- The Fall of Man: (Extract from The Genesis Account, Ch. 13)
- Creation at the cutting edge
- Non-Christian philosopher clears up myths about Augustine and the term ‘literal’
- Loving God with all your mind: Logic and Creation (Semi-Technical)
- Leaving your brains at the church door?
- What? A Christian mind?
- Origins of the word ‘Palestine’
- What good is Christianity?
- ‘Why do you just bash evolution?’
- Presuppositionalism vs evidentialism, and is the human genome simple?
- Questioning God’s many attributes
- ‘AnswersLIVE’ questions & answers: 20 November 2002 and 27 April 2004
- Moving forward—arguments we think creationists shouldn’t use (available in Spanish)
- The tyranny of ‘tolerance’
- The Hypocrisy of Intolerant ‘tolerance’: Christian schoolgirl failed for refusing ‘gay’ assignment
- Study: Biology professors are biased against Evangelicals
- Near Death Experiences? What should Christians think?
- Reader questions motive of CMI’s response to tsunami disaster
- Answer to philosophy/religion professor on biblical exegesis and the problem of evil
- Da Vinci Code apostate challenges CMI
- Creation challenge: leave the Bible out of it
- Intolerance, persecution and fundamental conceit (including: if religious belief is in our genes, then is there a gene that makes us believe that beliefs are in our genes?)
- Miracles and science
- Do evolution and the big bang follow scientific laws?
- Red Sea Parting, Jonah, and miracles in general
- Why CMI rejects ‘conspiracy’ theory
- Agnostic asks whether biblical Christians commit circular reasoning: role of axioms, internal consistency and real world application
- Terrorists and Death
- Why would a loving God allow death and suffering? (similar article available in Italian)
- Why is there Death and Suffering? booklet: Raises questions but provides framework for answers
- Norway terrorist: more anti-Christian media mendacity
- Atheism is more rational? (reply to critic)
- Answering a reasonable atheist on deep philosophical questions
- Answering 10 big questions in detail
- Earth age, big bang, nature of science
- God is a liar? (reply to critic)
- Darwinist hype and the culture war
- The Biblical roots of modern science
- Why does science work at all?
- Why would God bother with a tiny planet like Earth?
- Medieval misconceptions
- Why Bible history matters (and the timing of the Fall and Ark-building)
- Biblical history and the role of science
- Why is the church losing its young people?
- Conversion, apostasy, and CMI’s approach
- Does God’s foreknowledge entail fatalism?
- At a loss to answer objections?
- Islam, testimony, and the Trinity
- Trinity: analogies and countering critics
- Does the universe need a cause?
- Correcting misconceptions on creation and the gospel
- Universal negatives and excluded middles
- Emotional highs are not enough!
- Real particle physics disappoints big bangers
- Big bang universe “should not actually exist”: Antimatter still missing!
- Electron is perfectly spherical: Real particle physics refutes big bang dogma
- Why the Universe does not revolve around the Earth: Refuting absolute geocentrism
- A flat earth, and other nonsense
- Solar system origin: Nebular hypothesis [why it is wrong]
- Big bang universe “should not actually exist”
- The sun: our special star (available in Spanish)
- Solar wind protects us from cosmic rays
- Our steady sun: a problem for billions of years
- Age of the Sun
- The Moon: The light that rules the night (available in Spanish)
- Total Supermoon eclipse
- Stars
- Apollo mission to the moon: 50th anniversary
- Venus—cauldron of fire
- Does phosphine prove life on Venus?
- Earth is ‘too special’?
- Mars: The red planet
- Comets—portents of doom or indicators of youth (available in Russian)
- Oxygen in comet atmosphere undermines billions of years
- Will comet Elenin destroy us? And: What about the planets lining up in the sky?
- Have fundamental constants changed, and what would it prove? (Semi-Technical)
- ‘Big-bang’ critic dies (Sir Fred Hoyle, 1915–2001) (Semi-Technical)
- Hawking atheopathy
- Stephen Hawking (8 January 1942–14 March 2018)
- What about the slowing, stopping and reversing of light? (Semi-Technical)
- Should creationists accept quantum mechanics?
- Supernovae and gamma-ray bursts in a biblical cosmology
- Neutrinos faster than light?
- Evolutionary theologian thinks aliens would have more advanced religion—Bible college crisis: leading staff violate their own statements of faith
- Alien visitors to Earth? Not with the huge energy shortage and megaton dust bombs
- Nobel Prize for alleged big bang proof
- Evolution on ‘other’ worlds
- Have astrobiologists really found a super-Earth?
- Planet found outside our galaxy?
- More space travel problems: g-forces
- Have NASA computers really proven Joshua’s long day?
- Galaxies, Black Holes, and Creation (interview with astrophysicist Dr Markus Blietz)
- ‘He made the stars also’: (interview with astronomy full professor, Dr Danny Faulkner)
- Exploring the heavens (interview with former New South Wales Government Astronomer, David King)
- Exploring the heavens: Interview with NASA scientist Michael Tigges
- Could an asteroid have tilted Earth’s axis?
- Galileo Quadricentennial
- Black holes and Lilith: reality and myth (respectively)
- Eclipses and Easter, big bang questions
- Anisotropy Synchrony Convention
- ‘Missing mass’ of the big bang found?
- Origin of the elements—Bible vs the big bang
- Atheism, plants, and gas giants
- Is God a particle-wave duality?
- Why don’t we live as long as Methuselah?
- Some bugs do grow bigger with higher oxygen
- Of silver bullets, natural selection and fossil formation
- Variation and natural selection versus evolution
- Tortoises of the Galápagos
- The birds of the Galápagos
- Startling Sturddlefish
- Male nipples prove evolution? (Semi-Technical)
- Is antibiotic resistance really due to increase in information? (Technical, reply to critic)
- Anthrax and antibiotics: Is evolution relevant? (Semi-technical; available in Spanish)
- Ebola disease: the result of the Fall
- Microbiome (and virome)
- Do Rabbits Chew Their Cud?
- The superbaby mutation: Evolution of a new master race?
- Rats! A toothless argument for evolution
- The human umbilical vesicle (‘yolk sac’) and pronephros—Are they vestigial?
- Dawkins playing bait and switch with guppy selection
- Fox and dog speciation
- Echolocation ‘evolved in the same way’
- Shrews eating peppers
- “Microstructural architecture” of feathers makes them tough
- How geckos become unstuck
- Sight and the centre of the universe
- Amazing Abalone Armour
- Super shells
- Great gecko glue? (Semi-Technical)
- Gecko foot design—could it lead to a real ‘spiderman’?
- Drops explode off gecko skin
- Why nail biters don’t cry
- Blood Types and Their Origin (Semi-Technical), Answering the Critics)
- What were Adam’s and Eve’s blood types?
- Lobster eyes—brilliant geometric design (Semi-Technical)
- Scallop’s amazing mirror eyes
- Shrimp eye design
- Praying mantis: unique stereoscopic vision
- The Non-evolution of the horse: Special creation or evolved rock badger?
- Useless horse body parts? No way!
- Design in living organisms (motors)
- Germ with seven motors in one!
- The wonders of water
- Archer fish use advanced hydrodynamics
- God’s webspinners give chemists free lessons (Semi-Technical)
- Copying God’s design: Biomedical engineers combine information from spiders and algae
- Spiderweb stickiness secret
- Spider silk: both strong and smart
- Micro-robot eyes inspired by jumping spider
- Ear now … An incredible design in a tiny fly is inspiring engineers (Semi-Technical)
- Katydid’s amazing ear design
- Excellent Eye: Better than any camera—the eye’s response to light
- Dolphin sonar (still) far better than man’s
- Green power: God’s solar power plants amaze chemists (Semi-Technical)
- Startling stickiness: Designed that way
- Pterosaurs flew like modern aeroplanes
- Can it bee?
- Astonishing acrobatics—dragonflies
- A coat of many colours: Captivating chameleons
- DNA: marvelous messages or mostly mess?
- DNA: the best information storage system
- Shrimpy superboxer (powerful punch (and exquisite eyes) of mantis shrimp)
- Mantis shrimp ‘fist’ could inspire new body armour
- Diabolical ironclad beetles inspire extra-strong joints
- Limpet teeth break strength record
- Sea urchin spines
- Olfactory Design: Smell and Spectroscopy (Technical)
- Beautiful black and blue butterflies (Semi-Technical)
- Butterfly brilliance: Dual diffraction gratings produce two colour signals (Semi-Technical)
- Black butterfly wings inspire solar cell design
- Black butterfly wings inspire solar cell design (Semi-Technical)
- Moth eyes inspire anti-reflective surface—but difficult to copy
- Firefly lanterns inspire LED lenses
- Decoding and editing design: double sieve enzymes (Technical)
- Flighty flippers [humpback whale flipper nodules improve streamlining]
- Baleen whales have unique sensory organ
- Manta ray might inspire new filter design
- Learning from bumpy scorpion armour
- Scientists finally copy Creator’s super-rubber
- Venus flytrap: Ingenious mechanism still baffles Darwinists
- Pitcher plants and animal sanitation
- ‘Primitive’ cell inspires advanced robot mini-sub
- Crayfish tail inspires Mars robot design
- Ants find their way by advanced mathematics (Semi-technical)
- Turtles can read magnetic maps
- Plankton’s powerful pogo
- Bone building: perfect protein (osteocalcin design, technical)
- Knowing toil, knowing soil (interview with agricultural scientist Craig Russell)
- Brilliant brittlestars: Entire skeleton forms one big compound eye
- Fibre optics in eye demolish atheistic ‘bad design’
- Backwardly wired retina “an optimal structure”: New eye discovery further demolishes Dawkins
- Müller cells refuting Dawkins: feedback
- Fine tuning of ‘backward’ eye is vital for colour vision
- What a relief …
- Even a tiny virus has a powerful mini-motor
- The Prostate Gland–is it ‘badly designed’?
- Recurrent laryngeal nerve.
- Germ’s miniature motor has a clutch
- Toothed gears in jumping insects
- Tooth enamel: sophisticated materials science
- Cuttlefish colour changes inspire new energy-efficient TV screen design
- Colourblind squid camouflage inspires Navy research
- Supercapacitor electrode design inspired by leaves on branches
- Sight and the centre of the universe
- Rainbow spot design challenges engineers
- Flying Creatures: Created or Evolved? (The Old Schoolhouse)
- Migratory birds use magnetic GPS
- Fancy flying from advanced aeronautics: the design of swifts and jet fighters
- How did dinosaurs grow so big?
- How big were the dinosaurs, really?
- Dinosaurs are almost certainly extinct
- Did dinosaurs evolve into birds?
- Researchers remain divided over ‘feathered dinosaurs’
- Did a Chicxulub impact wipe out dinosaurs?
- Archaeoraptor—Phony ‘feathered’ fossil
- Archaeopteryx (unlike Archaeoraptor) is NOT a hoax—it is a true bird, not a ‘missing link’
- Which came first—the dino or the bird?
- Dino-Bird Evolution Falls Flat!
- Kentucky Fried Dinosaur?
- Yet another birdosaur claim?!
- Ostrich eggs break dino-to-bird theory
- ‘BPM 1 3-13’—have they finally found a true feathered dinosaur?
- Yet another flap about dino-to-bird evolution
- New four-winged feathered dinosaur?
- Skeptics/Australian Museum ‘Feathered Dinosaur’ display: Knockdown argument against creation?
- ‘Sue’ the T. rex: another ‘missionary lizard’
- ‘Sue’ the T. rex: Does it show that dinosaurs evolved into birds?
- New dinosaur Lingwulong shenqi
- Did a meteor wipe out the dinosaurs? What about the iridium layer? (Semi-technical)
- ‘Schweitzer’s Dangerous Discovery’
- Dinosaur growth rates: Problem or solution for creationists?
- Liaoceratops: a ‘missing link’ of the horned dinos? (available in Spanish)
- Birds: fliers from the beginning
- Bird breathing anatomy breaks dino-to-bird dogma
- Anchiornis huxleyi: new four-winged feathered dino?
- ‘Carnivorous’ dinosaurs had plant diet (And: More challenges to dino-to-bird dogma)
- When did animals become carnivorous?
- ‘Feathered’ dinos: no feathers after all!
- World War 1 centenary
- ‘Christian’ vs evolutionary atrocities
- What about bad things done by the Church?
- A tale of two theologians
- Roe v Wade in the ash heap of history!
- Abortion—The answer’s in Genesis (available in Spanish)
- Antidote to abortion arguments (Review of Politically Correct Death by Francis Beckwith)
- Offended by the term ‘Baby Killers’
- Offended by previous feedback response on abortion
- When it comes to my body, ‘leave the choosing to me’
- What about abortion to save the mother’s life?
- Unborn babies may “be planning their future”
- Abortion ‘after birth’? Medical ‘ethicists’ promote infanticide
- Planned Parenthood selling baby parts
- Refuting contrived pro-abortion arguments
- CMI, vaccines, and vaccination
- Vaccines and abortion?
- The Holocaust and evolution
- Nazis planned to exterminate Christianity (available in Spanish)
- America’s evolutionists: Hitler’s inspiration? (available in Russian; review of War against the Weak by Edwin Black)
- The Darwinian roots of the Nazi tree (review of From Darwin to Hitler by Richard Weikart)
- Anti-creationist slanders are back-to-front: the evolutionary basis for racism, eugenics and Nazism
- Reinforcing the Darwin–Hitler connection and correcting misinformation about slavery and racism
- Racism: biblical creation is the only solution
- Stem cells and Genesis (Semi-technical)
- Icing the ALS ‘ice bucket’ challenge
- Anti-slavery activist William Wilberforce: Christian hero
- The Bible v slavery and apartheid (reply to critic)
- Does the Bible clearly teach monogamy?
- Christian converts and polygamy; and CMI’s view of the ‘Hobbit’
- Earth Day: Is Christianity to blame for environment problems?
- Response to a critic of Cain’s Wife booklet
- Cain’s wife and brother-sister intermarriage
- Is brother-sister intermarriage intrinsically immoral?
- The bible vs female inferiority
- Bomb-building vs the biblical foundation (the Moral Argument for God explained properly vs misconceptions)
- Gay ‘marriage’ and the consistent outcome of Genesis compromise
- Reply to a homosexual’s Objections to homosexuality article (see also positive feedback on this article)
- The disingenuous and anti-Christian nature of ‘gay rights’ rhetoric
- Legalized Cloning in Australia: What are the issues?
- New monkey clone?
- First human embryo clone? What really happened, and what are the ethics involved? (Semi-technical)
- Monkeying around with cloning
- What is ‘good’?
- Can pantheism explain morality? And, the fight-or-flight response and the Fall
- What good is Christianity?
- Genocide, evolution and the Bible
- Transplants, xenotransplants, xenotransfusion and xenoexperimentation
- One man one woman
- Noah did not take fish on the Ark!
- Flood models and biblical realism
- Could the Flood have been tranquil?
- Were ‘the waters’ above a vapour canopy?
- The Yellowstone Petrified Forests (Semi-Technical)
- How did fish, invertebrates and plants survive the Genesis Flood?
- How did all the animals fit on Noah’s Ark? (Polish translation (off site))
See also Refutation of major evolutionary Flood/Ark critique (Semi-Technical, on the creationist True.Origins Archive) - Refuting Noah’s ark critics
- Not Finding Noah—A review of the film Finding Noah: An Adventure of Faith
- Birds on the Ark
- Micro-primates … a transitional form or just heel-bone hype?
- Tiktaalik—a fishy ‘missing link’
- Peregocetus pacificus, 43-milion-year–old walking whale?
- How innocent are ‘bathtub arks’? (response to critic)
- Mammoth: Riddle of the Ice Age (Semi-Technical; Spanish translation available, as well as an English booklet)
- Yes, Noah did build an Ark! (Refutation of anti-Ark BBC program)
- Noah’s Flood and the Gilgamesh Epic
- Another leggy snake?
- Dicynodonts and ‘out-of-place’ fossils
- CMI presents geological ‘misinformation’?
- Rainbows, the Flood, and the Covenant
- ‘The oldest pregnant mum’—not! (Materpiscis attenboroughi or ‘Mother fish of Attenborough’)
- Ichthyosaurs: evidence for a recent global flood
- Darwinopterus v Dawkins
- Flood legends, and creation in the science class
- Computers on the Ark?
- Running out of puff: Low oxygen may have medical benefits—implications for the ‘Vapor Canopy’ model
- Many questions, many answers: Cavemen diets, Ark stability, plant evolution, DNA replication
- Evolution exams and fossil fallacies
- Giant compound eyes, half a billion years ago?
- Time’s alleged ‘ape-man’ trips up (again)! Response to ‘One Giant Step for Mankind’, Time magazine cover story, 23 July 2001 (Ardipithecus ramidus kadabba)
- Was Adam from Australia? The mystery of ‘Mungo Man’
- Ethiopian ‘earliest humans’ find: A severe blow to the beliefs of Hugh Ross and similar ‘progressive creationist’ compromise views
- More evidence Neandertals were fully human
- Neandertals were fully human in thinking: Symbolic items show human cognition and symbolic thinking
- Eve, the rib, and modern genetics
- Quantum Biology and the Origin of Life
- The force of probability arguments
- The Miller–Urey experiment revisited, oxidizing atmosphere
- Physicist’s ‘breakthrough’ on the origin of life: can thermodynamics of heat dissipation explain chemical evolution?
- Thermodynamics and evolution
- Loopholes in the evolutionary theory of the origin of life (Semi-Technical)
- Other possible mechanisms for abiogenesis and evolution?
- Did Craig Venter really create life in a test tube? And does it disprove biblical creation?
- Self-replicating Enzymes (Technical; a Critique of some recent evolutionary origin of life models)
- Origin of Life: The Chirality Problem (Technical)
- Origin of life and the chirality problem:
Is magnetochiral dichroism the solution? (Technical) - Origin of Life: The Polymerization Problem (Technical)
- Hydrothermal origin of life? (Technical)
- Amino acids produced in hydrothermal vent?
- Origin of life: Instability of building blocks (Technical)
- World record enzymes (Semi-Technical)
- New DNA repair enzyme discovered
- God’s DNA-detangling motors
- Life on Mars? Separating fact from fiction (Semi-Technical)
- Conclusive evidence for life from Mars? Remember last time! (Semi-technical)
- Moon microbes? Remember the ‘life from Mars’!
- Panspermia theory burned to a crisp: bacteria couldn’t survive on meteorite
- Life from space? Unlikely … Let’s wait and see (Semi-technical)
- Sugars from Space? Do they prove evolution? (Semi-technical)
- Did life’s building blocks come from outer space?
Amino acids from interstellar simulation experiments? (Semi-technical) - Will scientists create new life forms—and what would it prove?
- Answering a skeptic about polymerization problems
- Huff and Bluff: Can ‘quantum magic’ save chemical evolution?
- Does ribozyme research prove Darwinian evolution? (response to critic)
- Can nucleobases and self-replication arise from non-living chemicals?
- Nucleic acid bases in Murchison meteorite?
- When is “Intelligent intervention” acceptable?
- Monkeying with probability (feedback)
- Does recent science really prove that God spoke the world into existence? (feedback)
- Medieval castles and modern fallacies
- The illogic of anti-creationism
- Refuting evolutionary agitprop
- Billions of years? Appraising the dangers
- The glasses of ‘deep time’
- ‘One long ad hominem’
- Flood models and flat-earthers
- The flat earth myth
- What’s Wrong With Bishop Spong? Laymen Rethink the Scholarship of John Shelby Spong
- Refutation of PBS-TV Evolution series (Seven articles—one per episode) Episode 2 rebuttal available in Spanish
- Refutation of Cosmos series by Neil deGrasse Tyson: Episode 1, Episode 2.
- Refutation of Kenneth Miller’s anti-creationist book Finding Darwin’s God (Semi-Technical)
- Refutation of Richard Dawkins’ anti-creationist book Climbing Mount Improbable (Semi-Technical)
- Dawkins’ Delusion (continued)
- Misotheist’s misology: Dawkins attacks Behe but digs himself into logical potholes
- Refutation of Boyce Rensberger’s Washington Post article: ‘How Science Responds When Creationists Criticize Evolution’
- The Second Law of Thermodynamics (Semi-Technical, Answering the Critics; available in Spanish)
- Some thermodynamics criticisms (by anti-creationist science writer Jonathan Sherwood)—and answers:
- Who’s really pushing ‘bad science’? A Response to: Good Science, Bad Science by Lawrence S. Lerner (Semi-Technical, available in Russian)
- 15 ways to refute materialistic bigotry—A point by point response to Scientific American (Semi-Technical, available in Russian)
- Critique of the atheist John Stear’s ‘No Answers in Genesis’ website and the skeptics featured there (on the creationist True.Origins Archive)
- More nonsense from Professor Plimer
- Judas II (Nathan Z.)
- Barbara Thiering: A short critique
- The ‘Indoctrinator’
- Playwright just plain wrong
- The Skeptics and their ‘Churchian’ Allies (and point-by-point reponse to their reply)
- Bonebox bashers blasted: Update on James ossuary claims
- Early mosaic calls Jesus ‘God’
- Atheists blast Christianity. Yet another misleading anti-Christian assault from Australia’s taxpayer-funded TV station, ABC (covers the origin of science, big bang, evolutionary compromises, death and suffering)
- The fallacy of arguing from authority
- Time and Newsweek blatantly attack Christian doctrine: Christians use Internet to refute mainstream media misochristism—and be heard!
- CMI scientist refutes atheistic evolutionist in Wellington’s (New Zealand) major newspaper
- Intelligent Design—‘A War on Science’ says the BBC
- War on creation, continued (refutation of criticism of above)
- Feedback: Correcting a severe misconception about the creation model; Dr Sarfati—‘a good communicator and a good witness’
- Clearing up creation confusion
- New England Journal of Medicine promotes anti-theism
- The lies of Free Inquiry—a response
- Reader questions motive of CMI’s response to tsunami disaster
- Catalytic reporting: An Australian science show [on ABC] flags its bias
- Creationists can’t agree any more than cosmologists? (feedback)
- Atheism is more rational? (feedback)
- Mangling misotheism (feedback)
- Newton was a creationist only because there was no alternative? (feedback)
- ‘God doesn’t care a bit’ about origins? (response to critic)
- When will Europe wake up?
- Answering close family on creation questions
- Science, Creation and Evolutionism: Response to the latest anticreationist agitprop from the US National Academy of Sciences (NAS), Science, Evolution and Creationism
- Top 10 Consequences of evolution?
- Atheopathy vs Science: Refutation of New Scientist’s Evolution: 24 myths and misconceptions:
- The Darwin–Hitler connection; refuting ‘Hitler was a Christian’ mendacity
- Mangling misotheists’ ignorant attacks on the Bible (refuting alleged contradictions)
- Evolution v natural selection (includes mutations, information, ‘bad design’, missing links)
- Darwin isn’t the final word (includes Haldane’s Dilemma and the bacterial flagellum)
- What about creationist disagreements? Are transitional series plausible?
- Feedback: Biblical creation impedes evangelism? Plus yet another uninformed atheist.
- Deny vote to creationists
- God created with functional maturity, not ‘appearance of age’
- Introduction to Refuting Compromise: A biblical and scientific refutation of ‘progressive creationism’ (billions of years) as popularized by astronomer Hugh Ross (plus links to outside reviews)
- Exposé of NavPress’s new Hugh Ross ‘progressive creationist’ Book, The Genesis Question (Semi-Technical)
- Hugh Ross lays down the gauntlet! (Semi-Technical)
- Answering some Hugh Ross supporters
- Analysis of the Hovind–Ross Debate, John Ankerberg Show, October 2000 (Semi-Technical)
- Analysis of the Lisle–Ross Debate, ‘Dr Bob Grant’ radio program, December 2004 (Semi-Technical)
- Ten major differences and similarities between Calendar-Day and Day-Age Creationists—According to Dr Hugh Ross
- Critique of the introductory chapter of Hugh Ross’s new book A Matter of Days: Resolving a Creation Controversy
- Trilobites on the Ark? Hugh Ross’s latest bungles on the created kinds
- Hugh Ross bluffs at church meeting
- Hugh Ross Church Fathers
- More false claims by Hugh Ross
- The Fall: a cosmic catastrophe—Hugh Ross’s blunders on plant death in the Bible
- Questions arising from an old earth talk: Responding to old-earther Eric Gustafson
- William Lane Craig’s intellectually dishonest attack on biblical creationists
- William Lane Craig contra The Genesis Account
- William Lane Craig and his historical Adam conference
- William Lane Craig flubs on the Flood
- Evolution/long ages contradicts Genesis order of Creation
- Was God’s finished creation perfect?
- Causeless capitulation on creation
- ‘Just preach the Gospel!’ Or: how not to impress atheists
- 6,000 years of biblical history: Questions and answers
- Wrong radiometric dates, and why they matter
- Why 6,000 years and not Septuagint chronology?
- Hold on, Mr Holzmann: Leading homeschool supplier misleads about biblical creationist exegesis
- Evangelical compromise misses the essentials (Semi-technical, review of The Essence of Darwinism by Kirsten Birkett)
- ID theorist blunders on Bible: Reply to Dr William Dembski
- Chamberlain and the Church
- Church of England apologises to Darwin: Anglican Church’s neo-Chamberlainite appeasement of secularism
- Response to the evolution appeasers (Treasury, New Zealand)
- Can evangelicals agree on ten theses about creation and evolution?
- Evolution makes atheists out of people!
- Evolution makes atheists out of people—Mark 2!
- Compromising chaplain castigates creation
- Compromising chaplain castigates creation, round 2
- Refuting old-earth church publication
- Genesis, history and Haeckel’s diagrams
- ‘Useful idiot’—who, me?
- A high view of Scripture? Second response re: objections from ‘Atheist spat’ article
- Refuting compromising critic of CMI seminar
- Theistic Evolution and the Kenotic Heresy
- Taking the Bible seriously?
- Thomas Aquinas taught a young earth
- Responses to an apostate friend
- Yes, Genesis really is historical narrative
- Reconciled with God
- Christ the Creationist
- God’s days vs man’s days?
- Could Jesus sin?
- The gospel of the Triune God: our prime concern
- Body, soul, and spirit
- Dealing with claims of Bible ‘contradiction’
- Differences between Genesis 1 and 2? Is it OK to eat rare steak? (Feedback)
- Should we trust the Bible?
- Strong evidence that the New Testament is true
- Response to critic of Creation Answers Book, Chapter 1
- How precise is the Bible about the date of creation?
- Understanding the Hebrew Bible: ‘season’ and ‘pi’
- Gap theory revisited
- The Qu’ran, Messianic prophecy and Christianity
- ‘Religious’ racism, and a chronology of Cain
- Easter and Good Friday: questions and answers
- The Incarnation: Why did God become Man?
- Christmas and Genesis
- Celebrating Christmas?
- Creation and the Advent
- Jesus Christ our Creator: A Biblical Defence of the Trinity
- Defending vital doctrines and the deity of Christ
- Jesus is God the Son
- The Virginal Conception of Christ (available in Spanish)
- If God can do anything, then can He make a being more powerful than Himself, or a rock too heavy for Him to lift? What does God’s omnipotence really mean?
- The Authority of Scripture (available in Spanish) (Semi-Technical)
- Who wrote Isaiah?
- ‘In Peleg’s days, the earth was divided’: What does this mean? (Does it refer to catastrophic splitting of the continents?)
- Timing of events in Noah’s life
- The numbering pattern of Genesis (Technical)
- ‘In my father’s day … ’
- Biblical chronogenealogies (Technical)
- Genesis: Bible authors believed it to be history: ‘The important thing is that God created, isn’t it?’ (available in Finnish and Russian)
- Genesis is History)
- If God created the universe, then who created God? (Available in French)
- In the beginning God created—or was it a quantum fluctuation?
- Was something created from nothing?
- The old ‘Who created God?’ canard revisited; who designed the Designer?
- Y-chromosomes confirm Genesis teaching about Abraham; history of the Jews
- Calvin says: Genesis means what it says
- Cainan: How do you explain the difference between Luke 3:36 and Gen. 11:12? (Semi-Technical, available in Spanish)
- How could the days of Genesis 1 be literal before the sun was created? (available in Spanish)
- Literal days before the sun
- Q&A: 2 Peter 3:8—‘one day is like a thousand years’
- Templeton Prize goes to panentheistic Darwinist
- Evolutionary theologian thinks aliens would have more advanced religion:Bible college crisis: leading staff violate their own statements of faith
- Archbishop’s achievement: James Ussher’s great work Annals of the World is now available in English (Interview with Larry and Marion Pierce)
- Pain in childbirth: result of the Fall or fear?
- Unfair to Islam?
- Isaiah 9:6–7: The coming Child who would be called ‘Mighty God’ (<https://messiah.com.es/alphabet/isaiah9.html> first publishedon the <https://messiah.com.es/wall/index.html> Messiah.com.es site, where Dr Sarfati was one of <https://messiah.com.es/scholar_profiles.html> 12 Jewish scholars invited to contribute on how Yeshua fulfills the Messianic prophecies in the Hebrew Bible)
- Lilith: Adam’s mythological first wife
- Are we allowed to eat all animals today?
- The young earth and the Flood: why they matter
- Cosmic magnets vs long-age dogma
- Craters, radiohalos, and ‘geologic time’
- Magnetic fields and the science of biblical creation
- Salty seas: Evidence for a young earth (Semi-Technical)
- The earth’s magnetic field:
Evidence that the earth is young (Semi-Technical) - Exploding stars point to a young universe. Where are all the supernova remnants? (Semi-Technical)
- Is the absence of short-lived radionuclides a problem for the Biblical timescale (Semi-Technical, reply to critic)
- Diamonds: a creationist’s best friend: Radiocarbon in diamonds: enemy of billions of years (contains a technical box replying to objections)
- Dino proteins and blood vessels: are they a big deal?
- DNA and bone cells found in dinosaur bone
- CMI scientific blunder?
- Have scientists proved that the earth is old?
- An awesome mind: A talk with one of Christianity’s foremost defenders, Jonathan Sarfati, from Creation magazine.
- Now a Creationist (Dr Sarfati’s guest article on the Boundless.org website explaining why he became a biblical creationist; see original article on this site)
- Radio interview on Bob Enyart Live, 27 April 2010
- Dr Sarfati explains the scientific and biblical evidence for creation and against evolution, Curs-Ed Net Breakthrough Radio (CNBR), 25 April 2011
- Dr Sarfati discusses the amazing designs in nature, from his book By Design, Curs-Ed Net Breakthrough Radio (CNBR), 20 June 2011
- Interview on Crossroads TV, Canada, 4 November 2010. “Jim Cantelon speaks with Dr Jonathan Sarfati about his book The Greatest Hoax On Earth? which meets Dawkins The Greatest Show on Earth head-on. He answers Dawkins’ challenge. He shows that to believe the Bible’s account of Creation/Fall/Redemption does not commit intellectual suicide, but it is the intellectually superior position.”
- (Samaritans) Member Spotlight: Dr. Jonathan Sarfati of Creation Ministries International, posted by Mike Miller on 16 May 2012
- Militant anti-Theism, hijacking science and Dawkins and Krauss on Redemption Radio, with Dr Sarfati as guest
- The greatest hoax: Evolutionary theory is riddled with contradictions, interview with Peter Hastie, Australian Presbyterian, August 2012
- Callers take on Creationist: Dr. Jonathan Sarfati appears on Dr. Michael Brown’s show The line of Fire, originally broadcast 2 October 2013
- Flame Christian Radio: Detailed radio interview with Nick Cowan in Liverpool, UK, covering scientific, exegetical, and apologetics matters, originally broadcast 2 December 2016
- The Truth about the COVID-19 Vaccine, Just the Truth with Jenna Ellis, 16 March 2011
See also report on this episode, Michael Foust, Leading Creationist Endorses Vaccine: COVIDis “1,000 Times More Dangerous” than the vaccine, Christian Headlines, 21 July 2021.
Interviews by Dr Sarfati from Creation magazine
Astronomy and astrophysics
- Former cancer researcher vs creation compromise (Philip Bell B.Sc. (Hons.), PGCE, MRSB
- Galaxies, Black Holes, and Creation (astrophysicist Dr Markus Blietz)
- ‘He made the stars also …’ (astronomer Dr Danny Faulkner)
- Exploring the heavens (former New South Wales Government Astronomer, David King)
- Exploring the heavens (NASA scientist Michael Tigges)
Biochemistry
- How long can proteins last?
- Enzyme expert exposes evolution’s error (Finnish biochemist Dr Matti Leisola)
- Couple for creation (biochemistry researchers Dr John and Sally McEwan)
Biology
Chemistry
- The Creation Couple: Whether challenging secularists on creation or abortion, this dynamic duo packs a powerful punch (chemist and psychiatrist)
Genetics
- Corals, genes and creation (marine biologist and geneticist Dr Rob Carter)
- Manipulating life? Genetic engineering researcher backs Genesis (Dr Dudley Eirich)
Geology or Geography
Law
Medicine, human biology, surgery
- Brain scientist helps develop young Christian minds (neuroscientist and cell biologist Dr David DeWitt)—(see also feedback on this article)
- Exposing Evolution’s Icon: World leader on sickle-cell anemia: ‘Nothing to do with evolution!’ (Dr Felix Konotey-Ahulu)
- Performing surgery upon evolutionary thinking (pediatric surgeon Dr Ross Pettigrew)
- Standing upright for creation (human spine expert Dr Richard Porter)
- Dr Wally Tow: creationist, internationally-renowned gynaecologist and pastor
Physics
- Nuclear physicist embraces biblical creation (Dr Jim Mason)
- Nuclear scientist shares his creationist faith (Dr Brandon van der Ventel)
- Nuclear physicist for creation! (Dr Heinz Lycklama)
- Physicist for biblical creation (Dr Christpher Ting)
- Physicist staunchly defends biblical creation (Dr Russell Humphreys)
- Physicist for biblical creation (Dr Christopher Ting)
Theology, biblical studies
- Minister and Bible scholar: Genesis is history! (Rev. Dr Peter Barnes, lecturer on church history)
- Theologian: Genesis means what it says! (Dr Robert McCabe, Old Testament scholar)
- Hebrew scholar affirms that Genesis means what it says! (Dr Ting Wang, lecturer in biblical Hebrew)
- Hebrew professor: Genesis teaches six solar days! (Interview with Dr Andrew Steinmann of Concordia University)
- Hebrew professor affirms Genesis as real history
- OT scholar: Genesis teaches a short timescale
- The early church believed Genesis as written (Interview with Greek and Patristics scholar Dr Benno Zuiddam)
- Pole vaulting and creation
Technical papers in secular science journals
- J.D. Sarfati, G.R. Burns, and K.R. Morgan: ‘Tetraphosphorus tetraselenide: crystalline and amorphous phases analysed by X-ray diffraction, Raman and magic angle spinning ³¹P NMR spectroscopy and differential scanning calorimetry’, J. Non-Crystalline Solids 188(1–2):93–97, 2 July 1995 | doi:10.1016/0022-3093(95)00093-3.
- J.D. Sarfati and G.R. Burns: ‘The pressure, temperature and excitation frequency dependent Raman spectra; and infrared spectra of CuBrSe₃ and CuISe₃’, Spectrochimica Acta Part A: Molecular Spectroscopy 50(12):2125–2136, November 1994 | doi:10.1016/0584-8539(94)00176-6.
- G.R. Burns, J.R. Rollo, J.D. Sarfati and K.R. Morgan: ‘Phases of tetraphosphorus triselenide analysed by magic angle spinning ³¹P NMR and Raman spectroscopy, and the Raman spectrum of tetraphosphorus tetraselenide’, Spectrochimica Acta Part A: Molecular Spectroscopy 47(6):811–8, 1991 | doi:10.1016/0584-8539(91)80153-A.
- G.R. Burns, J.R. Rollo, and J.D. Sarfati: ‘Raman spectra of the tetraphosphorus trichalcogenide cage molecules P₄S₂Se and P₄SSe₂’, Inorganica Chimica Acta 161(1):35–38, 3 July 1989 | doi:10.1016/S0020-1693(00)90111-7.
- G.R. Burns and J.D. Sarfati: ‘Raman spectra of tetraphosphorus triselenide doped in tetraphosphorus trisulphide’, Solid State Communications 66(4):347–49, April 1988 | doi:10.1016/0038-1098(88)90854-X.
- A. Mawdsley, H.J. Trodahl, J. Tallon, J. Sarfati and A.B. Kaiser: ‘Thermoelectric power and electron-phonon enhancement in YBa₂Cu₃O7-δ’. Nature328(6127):233–234, 16 July 1987 | doi:10.1038/328233a0.
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