Biography
Gary has been speaking on the creation/evolution issue since 1990. 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, 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. He held this position from its inception in 2008 until mid-2016 when he decided to step down and concentrate on the task of managing the rapidly growing USA office and expanding the ministry’s reach in other areas. This included co-writing and producing CMI’s award-winning documentary Evolution’s Achilles’ Heels.
Though he was once a convinced evolutionist, the creation message had a dramatic impact on Gary’s life. He is now a biblical 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 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. Gary has also undertaken the task of writing, producing and directing a movie-style documentary based upon his book called Alien Intrusion: Unmasking a Deception. It premiered in cinemas around the world in 2018. In 2019 Gary received an honorary doctorate (Ds.C.) from Whitefield Theological Seminary for his wide-ranging research into extraterrestrial phenomena.
He is married to Frances (an experienced event manager for CMI) and they have four adult children. Together they authored the children’s book One Big Family: the truth about where we all came from. Gary has also coauthored 7 other books on creation (see the bottom of this page)
See sample videos of Gary Bates:
1.50 minute trailer of Alien Intrusion: Unmasking a Deception written and produced by Gary Bates.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.
Creation magazine interviews
- Unearthing exciting evidence for creation
- Evolutions’ Achilles’ Heels: A unique new book and DVD expose evolution’s fatal flaws
- ‘Engineered’ for Duty!
- A watchman for the Lord
- Is God left-handed?
- Rapping for the Creator
- Raising godly children
- Aliens in your bedroom? (interview with Gary Bates)
- Seeing a way through the forest
- Dealing with the heart of the problem
- ‘What goes up … ’
- An awesome mind
- Exploding the big bang!
- Lifting the veil on the UFO phenomenon
- Still running for God
- The Battle of Chang-Sha
- Back on solid ground
- Doctor to the disadvantaged
General science
- Biblical Biology 101
- The valley of the whales: A famous desert—full of marine fossils
- What should Christians think about artificial selection and genetic modification?
- DNA Battles
- Watch out! ‘Bed bugs’ are fighting back … apparently!
- Brainy bees?
- Geologists are not biased?
- Are there out-of-sequence fossils that are problematic for evolution?
- Why should science make it difficult to believe the Bible?
- Patriarchs of the forest (old trees suggest a recent creation)
- Evolution and the science of fiction: A denial of the awesome Creator
- Does CMI believe in an old earth?
- That quote!—about the missing transitional fossils
Dinosaurs
- Titans of the Earth, Sea, and Air
- Dinosaurs and the ‘Power of the paradigm
- Can dinosaurs falsify evolution?
- Dinosaurs are almost certainly extinct
Egyptology
- Patterns Of Evidence, Episode 6: Journey to Mount Sinai Part II
- CMI’s Egypt Tours 2022: A report on what many called ‘The trip of a lifetime’
- Is CMI confusing Egyptian chronology?
- The 7 Churches of Revelation, Times of Fire: movie review
- Evidence for the Bible’s history in Egypt
- Did the Exodus lead to the Hyksos Invasion?
- Who is wrong about the biblical date of the Flood, and the Great Pyramid? with Gavin Cox
- Egyptian chronology confusion
- Can we understand Egyptian chronology before the Exodus? with Gavin Cox
- Evidence for the Bible’s history in Egypt
- Pharaoh Shishak—Evidence of Hebrews in Egypt
- Egyptian chronology and the Bible—framing the issues
- Movie review: Patterns of Evidence: The Moses Controversy
- Patterns of Evidence: Exodus. A review
- See biblical history come alive with CMI’s Egypt tour! (interview with Gary Bates)
Theology
- Does CMI deal with end times?
- Can you love Jesus and reject His Word?
- How can we be sure we have the Word of God?
- From Creation to Salvation
- Faltering on the Flood
- A Matter of Faith—movie review
- The new earth
- Is God inconsistent?
- Can you answer: ‘How did we get our Bible?’
- Did God create over billions of years?
- Did the witch of Endor call up a ghost?
- Can bunny rabbits be saved?
- Are ghosts real? Are people really communicating with the spirits of the dead?
- What about ghost sightings?
Pro-life
- Just let the baby die—it’s Darwinism! with Lita Sanders
- US States’ abortion bills reveal culture clash over unborn human life
- Legalizing abortion—no-one is safe anymore: Compromise on ‘made in the image of God’ is taking us into Hitler’s gas chambers
Creation: relevance to Christianity
- God makes a way
- “It’s not my job to save people!”
- “If you can’t say something nice … ?” with Lita Sanders
- Is evolution really just about science?
- The issue of race and other global issues
- Reaching people where they are at!
- World upside down—and what is CMI doing about it?
- Biblical creation gives us the answer to modern insanity
- Climate change and LGBT issues. What’s the Creation connection?
- Praise God. He is using CMI to change lives!
- A blunt instrument for God?
- Is it ok to be a blunt instrument?
- Soil, trees and their fruit
- Bronx Zoo apologizes for putting a man in a monkey house
- Racism—a consequence of evolution?
- Where is our focus?
- Revisiting the FALLOUT!
- “Once more into the breach”
- Are you a radical Christian?
- Why Creation magazine?
- “I’m a New Testament Christian”
- It’s time to stop the FALLOUT!
- When the emotions are gone, what’s left?
- Creation—the ‘dealbreaker’ for today’s generation
- Winning a dumbed-down debate—no cause for celebration
- ‘Teaching creation is child abuse’?
- The false gospel of Darwinism
- Is creation irrelevant?
- Harmonizing science and Scripture?
- Expanding the Kingdom?
- Can you survive without blood?
- Defending the Bible?
- A ‘no brainer’ test for measuring the faith of our young ones
- Evolutionary ‘programming’ and the stumbling block of thousands of years
- Truth, half truths and outright falsehoods!
- Christianity 101
- How to conduct brain surgery in 45 minutes
- Skeptical tactic for shutting down debates
- How do we love our neighbor?
- Gay Marriage—A big stick to beat the church with
- Anchoring their faith
- It’s the season for giving—but do the atheists think so too?
- Don’t hold the line—advance it!
- An ‘old-earth’ answer provides only problems
- Thinking ‘upside-down’!
- Salad bar Christianity!
- What is your authority?
- Does evolution turn people into Christians?
- It’s not Christianity!
- The ‘knockout punch’ syndrome
- The lies of Free Inquiry— a response
- Truth decay: Will revival come in a compromised Church?
- Refuting compromising critic of CMI seminar
- What would life be like without creation ministries?
- Religious spin merchants
- Redressing the imbalance
- We are … biblical creationists ?
- Why do children lose their trust in the Bible?
- Why doesn’t the church taste good anymore?
- ‘Plugging the back door’
- Churches celebrating the ‘Year of Darwin’
- Foxes crying foul in the henhouse!
- Are young-earth creationists irrational knuckle-brains?
- Dispensing the cure for a sick society
- Catching the vision—an amazing story!
- Christians ‘ducking and weaving’ on campus
- Creation—now on the table!
- Muslims agree that the church should stop watering down the message
- The bottom line—it’s about people!
- Who’s transforming our society?
- ‘A donkey for Jesus’
- Absolute truth—and winning the ‘culture wars”
- How to reach into schools without reaching into schools!
- Pew survey reveals basic ignorance of Christian belief
- Compromising chaplain castigates creation, round 2
- Does Creation make the Gospel a laughing stock?
- Evolution’s pesky flea
- One ‘Harmless’ Movie
Death and suffering
- Is God a cruel Creator?
- ‘How great Thou art’ and the disconnect of ‘reality’
- Is the whole creation fallen?
- Understanding death
- Not just another book on ‘Why me, Lord?’
- Dealing with difficult issues
- Australia’s worst-ever bushfire disaster
- Haiti’s horrendous earthquake disaster
- Is it ‘unjust’ that the whole creation should suffer because of Adam’s sin? and Is long-age creationist a misnomer?
- Did something precede creation week, and why did God introduce suffering?
The UFO phenomenon
- UFOs, dark matter and Hugh Ross
- UFOs as spiritual phenomena
- Are alleged alien implants really extraterrestrial in nature?
- Is otherworldly science fiction biblical?
- Who were the ‘sons of God’ in Genesis 6
- Beliefs in the study of UFOs are changing for the better
- Gary Bates receives honorary doctorate
- UFOs on The History Channel
- The alien intrusion: A creation-based movie like no other!
- The Fermi Paradox
- Reaching out to ‘Alien’ experiencers—How to help them
- Can spirits manifest physically?
- US government spends millions researching UFOs
- CMI on the silver screen!
- An ‘alien intrusion’—a journey to remember
- The church of Jedi … believe it!
- UFOs are not extraterrestrial! Modern secular researchers are getting closer to the truth
- Did God create life on other planets? Otherwise why is the universe so big?
- Who were the sons of God in Genesis 6? (from Alien Intrusion)
- How to deal with experiencers
- Sirius the documentary
- Will Nibiru collide with Earth?
- Alien Intrusion helps experiencer to make sense of childhood ‘visitations’
- Will humans explore the stars?
- Does the UFO phenomenon marginalize the Christian worldview?
- 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’
- What really happened at Roswell?
- Death of a guru
- 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
- Avatar Aspirations: Sci fi helps create an alternate belief system
- Alien Apologetics
- Alien & skeptics
- Aliens, evolution and the occult
- 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!
- Out of this world!
- The return of the Nephilim?
- Saved via aliens?
- SETI—coming in from the cold of space
- The war of the worlds comes down to Earth
- Water, water, where are you?
- Signs the movie—God vs the aliens!
- Martian Fossils? Dissecting the media hype
- Prepare ye the way—the aliens are coming!
- Prepare ye the way—the aliens are coming! Part two
- UFOlogy: the world’s fastest-growing ‘scientific’ religion?
- Confirmations from creationist cosmology and countering ‘close encounters’
General
- Aussie Pop’s Oddities and Oddballs from Down Under
- The age of the earth—and why it matters
- Homeschool conference: great encouragement and some concerns
- Defending Genesis is popular!
- Inclusivity?
- Is human life special?
- Can you be a gay Christian?
- The debate over gender identity and bathrooms
- The Bible: the only basis for objective morality
- Dr Carl Wieland retires after four decades
- CMI’s CEOs meet in Thailand