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| '''Dr. Jonathan Sarfati''' is a chemist, research scientist, and a young-earth creationist who works for the Christian apologetics ministry ] (AiG). He is very well known by those who are interested in the creation/evolution controversy. Sarfati is also a world ranked chess champion. | '''Dr. Jonathan Sarfati''' is a chemist, research scientist, and a young-earth creationist who works for the Christian apologetics ministry ] (AiG). He is very well known by those who are interested in the creation/evolution controversy. Sarfati is also a world ranked chess champion. | ||
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He has written three books, ''Refuting Evolution'', ''Refuting Evolution 2'', and ''Refuting Compromise''. They are among the best seeling books on the AiG website. His book Refuting Compromise deals primarily with the claims made by the ] Dr. ]. Sarfati also is the author of numerous articles on the AiG website, as well as a frequent speaker at churches and other venues on the creation/evolution issue. | ||
| He often boasts about defeating evolutionists at their own game, and uses dirty language to accomplish that goal. Some might say that he is worse than ], because of the rhetoric that he espouses. | |||
| It is often asserted that "Dr." Sarfati's credentials are spurious because, like most every other creationist propagandist, he is so ignorant even in the fields which he claims to be an expert in (chemistry). | |||
| ==Sarfati's Creation Safari== | |||
| Jonathan Sarfati pontificates on many subject that are out of his field of expertise. Therefore, much of his material seems to be very faulty, as even laypeople interested in evolutionary biology have pointed out. For example, Sarfati thinks that evolution isn't science because it isn't directly observable in the here and now, however, evolutionary biology ''can'' observe the effects of evolutionary history. They can scientifically identify ], similar anatomical and genetic structures, among other evidences like fossils. All of these evidences can be scientifically tested, and then the only coclusion we are left with is that evolution occurred. Sarfati's trivial knowledge of such elementary things like this make him one of the most dense "scientists" to ever walk the face of the earth. | |||
| "Dr." Sarfati also believes that humans and dinosaurs roamed the earth ''at the same time''. Real Ph.D scientists would never believe such a ridiculous thing, yet he asserts is aggressivly and dogmatically as if he has evidence that it's true! Many often wonder where his evidence is for believing such things like this, but he usually just directs his finger at the ] and says something "Bible says so, so I know so!" Can such a "Dr." really act and believe things like this? Well, it all depends, but many believe that his Ph.D might be similar to that of Dr. Dino (]), i.e., fake and easily gotten. | |||
| Another thing that makes Sarfati such a spurious and unreasonable "scientist", is that he often calls the theory of evolution "goo-to-you-by-way-of-the-zoo." What kind of tripe is that? It seems like a kid making fun of something that he can't deal with properly, so he calls it names! Many have asked Sarfati to either grow up or get out of the game of acting like a scientist. Many have called him silly and incompetent. | |||
| ==Duck, Duck and Away!== | |||
| Sarfati is known for ducking questions, and wiggling out of specific details. He mainly speaks in broad generalizations (another indication that he's not a real scientist), and lacks details. For example, a web site's author had an email exchange with the "Dr." and asked him for a definition of what he calls a "Kind." Sarfati repeatedly ducked the questions and just said that species isn't precisely defined either. The author pointed out that there were at least published trees of what a species is, whereas Sarfati's "Kind" argument had nothing except vague articles published by dense Creationist organisations. This is merely one example of the duck they call Sarfati. | |||
| ==External Links== | ==External Links== | ||
Revision as of 10:52, 18 February 2005
Dr. Jonathan Sarfati is a chemist, research scientist, and a young-earth creationist who works for the Christian apologetics ministry Answers in Genesis (AiG). He is very well known by those who are interested in the creation/evolution controversy. Sarfati is also a world ranked chess champion.
He has written three books, Refuting Evolution, Refuting Evolution 2, and Refuting Compromise. They are among the best seeling books on the AiG website. His book Refuting Compromise deals primarily with the claims made by the progressive creationist Dr. Hugh Ross. Sarfati also is the author of numerous articles on the AiG website, as well as a frequent speaker at churches and other venues on the creation/evolution issue.