Dr Jonathan Sarfati
B.Sc. (Hons.), Ph.D., F.M.
In North America, at least, scientific creationists who have technical training are quite frequently engineers. The non-engineers who have been taught some of the things that scientists have found out, or who have themselves, on occasion, played the game of science, are usually knowledgeable only in one of the non-biological and "non-historical" sciences. Very few have had their primary technical training in biology, and I know of none who have actually conducted "hands-on" scientific studies of specimens in the fields of plant and animal classification, biogeography, or paleontology. Without exception, every single paleontologist, taxonomist, ecologist, biogeographer, comparative anatomist, botanist, mammalogist, ornithologist, herpetologist, ichthyologist, entomologist, and other invertebrate zoologist that I have ever met (and I have met and talked to hundreds, if not thousands) has been utterly convinced that the scientific evidence supports unequivocally and overwhelmingly, an old earth, an old universe, and evolution.
--Ronald Pine, zoologist, Chicago Field Museum of Natural History (1984, CREATION/EVOLUTION XIV, p. 14.)
Dr Jonathan Sarfati, like all his creationist colleagues, is a propagandist. (The word "propaganda" was the term adopted by the early Church to describe its method of spreading the faith). The only difference is that the creationist version of "the faith" relies on lies and subterfuge. It's often said, with good reason, that creationism is bad science and even worse religion.
Dr Jonathan Sarfati's biography, as published by Answers in Genesis, tells us that he is "a research scientist and editorial consultant for the Creation Science Foundation [now Answers in Genesis] in Brisbane.[Australia]"Dr Sarfati has degrees in chemistry but like most creationist writers he writes on almost every scientific discipline; you name it and he's more than likely written something in a vain effort to refute evolution.
His full biography can be found here.
Below are links to some of Dr Sarfati's inept contributions to the science/creation debate.
Are the Folks at
Answers in
Genesis
Feeling the Heat?
John Stear
Sarfati
Stumped! Does his silence indicate agreement
or is he finally lost for words?
Yet another unpublished letter to Answers in Genesis
Created Kinds? An Exchange with Jonathan Sarfati of Answers in Genesis (off site)
Fraud,
Deception or an Honest Mistake?
A puzzled reader writes to the folks at AiG - will they
reply?
Dr Jonathan Sarfati
Caught Out Again!
Larry Kurka
Sarfati's
Global Flood
F. C. Kuechman
Does
Dr Jonathan Sarfati Have Any Integrity?
John Stear
Jonathan Sarfati's "Refuting Evolution":
Refuted by Reality
If All Elephants and Other
Proboscideans are "One Kind",
Why Can't All Primates be "One Kind"?
Dr. Kevin R. Henke
The
Parable of Pil-Mer the Prankster
Sir Jim R Wallaby
Sarfati tries to refute the PSB-TV series Evolution with another falsehood (off site)
Sarfati "Responds" to Criticism
John Stear
Boiled
Creationist with a Side of Hexaglycine:
Sarfati on Imai et al. (1999)
Gary S. Hurd, Ph.D.
A Point by Point
Refutation of Jonathan Sarfati
(off site)
Sarfati, AiG and Radio Isotope Dating
Roland Watts
Jonathan Sarfati Teaches Logic and Falls on his Prat
F. C. Kuechman
Sarfati's Inconsistent
Views on Photon Transmissions between Stars
and in the Sun's Interior
Dr
Kevin R. Henke
More Nonsense on "TRUE.ORIGINS":
Jonathan Sarfati's Support Of Flood Geology (off
site)
Dr. Kevin R. Henke
Kevin Henke
discusses some of the problems in Sarfati's response
and provides additional reasons why "Flood geology" is bogus
Reply to Jonathan Sarfati's Criticism of "Supernovae,
Supernova Remnants
and Young Earth Creationism FAQ"
(off site)
Dave Moore
Digit Numbering and Limb Development
(off site)
PZ Myers debunks Jonathan
Sarfati's avian digit claims
