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{{Short description|Australian young earth creationist and chess player}}
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Dr '''Jonathan Sarfati''' (born ] ]) is a ]/] ] ] and ]. He has a ] in ]. Sarfati currently works for the ] ] ] ] (AiG).
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'''Jonathan David Sarfati''' (born 1 October 1964) is a ] who writes articles for ] (CMI), a non-profit ] ministry. Sarfati has a PhD in chemistry, and was ] in 1987 and 1988.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessplayer?pid=39623|title=Jonathan D Sarfati|publisher=chessgames.com|access-date=9 June 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://creation.com/content/view/3547/ |title=Dr Jonathan D. Sarfati BSc (Hons.), PhD, F.M. |access-date=7 January 2009 |publisher=Creation Ministries International}}</ref>
= Biography =
Born in ], ], Sarfati moved to ] as a child, where he became a ]. He attended ], and later he graduated from ] with a B.Sc. (Hons.) in ] and a Ph.D. in ], based on his ]: ''A ] Study of some ] ] and ]s.'' He has also had papers published in ]ed ]s including co-authoring in the journal '']'' on ]s in 1987, when he was 22 <sup></sup>.


==Background==
Ethnically ], Sarfati converted to ] in ]. He describes himself as a ] and ], which he uses interchangeably (there are distinctions as well as overlap between the ]).
Born in ], ], Sarfati moved with his family to New Zealand as a child, where he became a ] ]n and ] citizen. He attended ] in New Zealand, later graduating from ] with a BSc (Hons.) in ], and a PhD in the same subject for a thesis entitled "A ] Study of some ]ide Ring and Cage Molecules". He co-authored a paper on ]s that was published in '']'' in 1987 ("Letters to Nature"),<ref>Mawdsley, A., Trodahl, H.J., Tallon, J., Sarfati, J. and Kaiser, A.B. (1987) </ref> and from 1988 to 1995, had five papers on ] of ] samples published in other ] scientific journals.<ref>Five articles can be found by searching for at </ref> In 1996, he returned to ], ] to work for the ], then ], then its current name ]. In 2010, he moved to the American office of that ministry.<ref>{{cite book |title=The Genesis Account |publisher=Creation Book Publishers |page=786|year=2015 |first=Jonathan |last=Sarfati |isbn=978-1-921643-91-0 |author-link=Jonathan Sarfati}}</ref>


==Creationism==
In ] he returned to ], ] to work for the Creation Science Foundation (now ]) as co-editor of their magazine, '']'', and the peer-reviewed ''''
Sarfati was a founder of the Wellington Christian Apologetics Society in New Zealand, and has long retained an interest in Christian apologetics and the ].<ref>Sarfati's biography at CMI-Australia, </ref> His first two books, ''Refuting Evolution'' in 1999, and ''Refuting Evolution 2'' in 2002, are intended as rebuttals to the ]' publication ''Teaching about Evolution and the Nature of Science'' and the ]/] series '']'', respectively. ''Refuting Compromise'', published in 2004, is Sarfati's rebuttal of the ] teachings of ], who attempts to harmonise the ] with mainstream science regarding the ] and the possible size of the ], against which Sarfati defends a ] timeline and a global flood. ] and ] of the ] called Sarfati's ''Refuting Evolution 2'' a "crude piece of propaganda".<ref>Scott E.C. and Branch G. (2003). ''BioScience'': '''53'''(3):282-285</ref>


Sarfati is a critic of ],<ref>Robert Carter and Jonathan Sarfati, , creation.com, 12 February 2015.</ref> the ]<ref>Jonathan Sarfati, , ''Creation'' '''35'''(3):20–23, April 2013.</ref> and ] teaching,<ref>Robert Carter and Jonathan Sarfati, , creation.com, 3 September 2016 .</ref> ] behaviour,<ref>Jonathan Sarfati, , creation.com, 30 June 2012.</ref> and ]<ref>Jonathan Sarfati, , creation.com, 2002.</ref> except to save the life of the mother.<ref>Jonathan Sarfati, , creation.com, 3 January 2014.</ref> While opposing ] research, he supports ] research.<ref>Jonathan Sarfati, , ''Journal of Creation'' '''15'''(3):19–26, 2001;</ref> Sarfati also supports ] and rebuts ].<ref>Jonathan Sarfati, , creation.com, 2018.</ref>
Sarfati is married, with one stepson.


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== Writings ==
Sarfati has written numerous publications, including three books. '']'', his first book, was published in ], a rebuttal to the ]' teachers' guidebook ''Teaching about Evolution and the Nature of Science''. It has since sold more than 450,000 copies. This was followed by a sequel, '']'', a response to a major ]/Nova 7-part series and a ] article.


==Chess==
His latest book, '']'' is a rebuttal of the ] teachings of Dr ], who attempts to harmonize the ] with the belief that the earth is billions of years old, a position which Sarfati rejects. Sarfati has also authored a number of booklets, besides contributing chapters and articles to numerous books and magazines, as well as many of the articles on the ] website. He is a popular speaker at churches and conferences on the issue of creation versus evolution.
Sarfati is a ] ], and achieved a ] against former ] ] during a tournament in ] in 1988,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1129514 |title=Jonathan D Sarfati vs Boris Spassky 1988 |access-date=7 January 2009 |publisher=ChessGames.com}}</ref> and was ] in 1987–88.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.poisonpawn.co.nz/titles.htm|title=Title and Trophy Holders|access-date=7 January 2009|publisher=Poison Pawn|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080318234430/http://www.poisonpawn.co.nz/titles.htm|archive-date=18 March 2008}}</ref>


Although tied with Rey Casse for first place in the ] of 1981, he was not eligible to share the title as he was a resident of New Zealand at the time.<ref>{{dead link|date=April 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> He represented New Zealand in three ]s: the 27th in ]<ref></ref> in 1986, the 28th in ]<ref></ref> in 1988, and the 30th in ]<ref></ref> in 1992. He also represented New Zealand on top board at the 5th Asian Teams in ].<ref></ref>
== Chess ==


He has given ] exhibitions at chess clubs<ref> {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120322121835/http://www.croydonchess.com/LinkClick.aspx?fileticket=nuUo7sinjIs%3D&tabid=64&mid=476&language=en-AU |date=22 March 2012 }}</ref> and other events,<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.tulsaworld.com/news/article.aspx?subjectid=18&articleid=20110903_18_A15_CUTLIN574018 |title=Creationist to speak on young Earth theory|work=Tulsa World |first=Bill |last=Sherman|date=3 September 2011 |access-date=6 September 2011 | location=USA}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last= Richardson |first= Bryan |date= 27 August 2013 |title= Check Mates |newspaper= The Manhattan Mercury |location= ] |publisher= Seaton Group }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.kstatecollegian.com/2013/08/27/speaker-challenges-evolution/ |title= Speaker challenges evolution, offers alternative view |last1= Lawrence |first1= Jeana |date= 27 August 2013 |website= ] |access-date=22 December 2013}}</ref> and has played twelve such games simultaneously.<ref></ref> His previous best was winning 11/11 at the ] Chess Club in New Zealand.<ref>Roberts, Earl N., , ''New Zealand Chess'' '''29'''(3):23, June 2003.</ref>
Sarfati also maintains a keen interest in ]. A former New Zealand national chess champion (1987/88), he represented New Zealand in three ]s (: ] 1986, : ] 1988, : ] 1992] ). He also in the Australian Junior Championship (1981), but was declared ineligible because of his New Zealand residency (yet Casse was born in ]). In a tournament in ] in ], he drew with former ] ].


== Bibliography ==
He enjoys playing chess ], and has been known to play twelve such games simultaneously (see some ).
* ''The Genesis Account: A theological, historical, and scientific commentary on Genesis 1-11'', 2015, Creation Book Publishers {{ISBN|978-1921643910}}
* ''Christianity for Skeptics'', 2012, with Steve Kumar (first author), Creation Book Publishers {{ISBN|978-1921643491}}
* ''The Greatest Hoax on Earth? Refuting Dawkins on Evolution'', 2010, Creation Book Publishers {{ISBN|1-921643-06-4}}
* ''By Design: Evidence for nature's Intelligent Designer—the God of the Bible'', 2008, Creation Book Publishers ABN: 978-0-949906-72-4
* ''Refuting Compromise: A Biblical and Scientific Refutation of Progressive Creationism'', 2004, Creation Book Publishers {{ISBN|0-89051-411-9}}
* ''The Revised & Expanded Answers Book'', 2003, with ] and David Catchpoole, edited by Don Batten, {{ISBN|0-89051-395-3}}
* ''Refuting Evolution 2'', 2002/2011, Creation Book Publishers {{ISBN|0-89051-387-2}}
* ''Refuting Evolution'', 1999–2010, Creation Book Publishers {{ISBN|0-89051-258-2}}


== References ==
His ] ] is 2310.
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== External links ==
Sarfati was one of the top 1000 reviewers at ]. His reviews cover religious, scientific, and chess-related books.
* at creation.com
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* {{Chessgames player|name=Jonathan D. Sarfati}}


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== Criticism ==
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Critics assert that Sarfati can no longer be considered a scientist, basing this criticism on his writings and arguments for ], which is considered a ] in the majority view of scientists. They also state that scientific methodology is not prominent in Sarfati's recent work, because his most notable conclusions, related to young Earth creationism, are not hypotheses that have been postulated under the principles of the scientific method or that have been tested by experiment and data gathered in the field.
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Supporters counter that personal beliefs, writings, and arguing in favour of controversial topics have no bearing on education, experience, and job description, and that the appellation of ] is in fact accurate, being one who uses in ]. They say that the criticism is merely because his conclusions pertaining to the origin of life and the age of the Earth are in favour of creation as described in ], rather than an '''a priori'' adherence to ]' (Professor Richard Lewontin, quoted in "").
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*, ''TJ'' '''12'''(1):29&#8211;34, 1998
*, ''TJ'' '''15'''(3):19&#8211;26, 2001 (opposes ] research; supports ] research)
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Australian young earth creationist and chess player Not to be confused with Jack Sarfatti.

Jonathan Sarfati

Jonathan David Sarfati (born 1 October 1964) is a young Earth creationist who writes articles for Creation Ministries International (CMI), a non-profit Christian apologetics ministry. Sarfati has a PhD in chemistry, and was New Zealand national chess champion in 1987 and 1988.

Background

Born in Ararat, Victoria, Sarfati moved with his family to New Zealand as a child, where he became a dual Australian and New Zealand citizen. He attended Wellington College in New Zealand, later graduating from Victoria University of Wellington with a BSc (Hons.) in chemistry, and a PhD in the same subject for a thesis entitled "A Spectroscopic Study of some Chalcogenide Ring and Cage Molecules". He co-authored a paper on high-temperature superconductors that was published in Nature in 1987 ("Letters to Nature"), and from 1988 to 1995, had five papers on spectroscopy of condensed matter samples published in other peer-reviewed scientific journals. In 1996, he returned to Brisbane, Australia to work for the Creation Science Foundation, then Answers in Genesis, then its current name Creation Ministries International. In 2010, he moved to the American office of that ministry.

Creationism

Sarfati was a founder of the Wellington Christian Apologetics Society in New Zealand, and has long retained an interest in Christian apologetics and the creation–evolution controversy. His first two books, Refuting Evolution in 1999, and Refuting Evolution 2 in 2002, are intended as rebuttals to the National Academy of Sciences' publication Teaching about Evolution and the Nature of Science and the PBS/Nova series Evolution, respectively. Refuting Compromise, published in 2004, is Sarfati's rebuttal of the day-age creationist teachings of Hugh Ross, who attempts to harmonise the Genesis account of creation with mainstream science regarding the age of the Earth and the possible size of the Biblical Flood, against which Sarfati defends a literal biblical timeline and a global flood. Eugenie Scott and Glenn Branch of the National Center for Science Education called Sarfati's Refuting Evolution 2 a "crude piece of propaganda".

Sarfati is a critic of geocentrism, the Myth of the flat Earth and flat Earth teaching, homosexual behaviour, and abortion except to save the life of the mother. While opposing embryonic stem cell research, he supports adult stem cell research. Sarfati also supports vaccination and rebuts anti-vaccination arguments.

Sarfati playing chess against multiple players at a creation conference, 2011.

Chess

Sarfati is a chess FIDE Master, and achieved a draw against former world champion Boris Spassky during a tournament in Wellington in 1988, and was New Zealand's national chess champion in 1987–88.

Although tied with Rey Casse for first place in the Australian Junior Championship of 1981, he was not eligible to share the title as he was a resident of New Zealand at the time. He represented New Zealand in three Chess Olympiads: the 27th in Dubai in 1986, the 28th in Thessaloniki in 1988, and the 30th in Manila in 1992. He also represented New Zealand on top board at the 5th Asian Teams in New Delhi.

He has given blindfold chess exhibitions at chess clubs and other events, and has played twelve such games simultaneously. His previous best was winning 11/11 at the Kāpiti Chess Club in New Zealand.

Bibliography

  • The Genesis Account: A theological, historical, and scientific commentary on Genesis 1-11, 2015, Creation Book Publishers ISBN 978-1921643910
  • Christianity for Skeptics, 2012, with Steve Kumar (first author), Creation Book Publishers ISBN 978-1921643491
  • The Greatest Hoax on Earth? Refuting Dawkins on Evolution, 2010, Creation Book Publishers ISBN 1-921643-06-4
  • By Design: Evidence for nature's Intelligent Designer—the God of the Bible, 2008, Creation Book Publishers ABN: 978-0-949906-72-4
  • Refuting Compromise: A Biblical and Scientific Refutation of Progressive Creationism, 2004, Creation Book Publishers ISBN 0-89051-411-9
  • The Revised & Expanded Answers Book, 2003, with Carl Wieland and David Catchpoole, edited by Don Batten, ISBN 0-89051-395-3
  • Refuting Evolution 2, 2002/2011, Creation Book Publishers ISBN 0-89051-387-2
  • Refuting Evolution, 1999–2010, Creation Book Publishers ISBN 0-89051-258-2

References

  1. "Jonathan D Sarfati". chessgames.com. Retrieved 9 June 2012.
  2. "Dr Jonathan D. Sarfati BSc (Hons.), PhD, F.M." Creation Ministries International. Retrieved 7 January 2009.
  3. Mawdsley, A., Trodahl, H.J., Tallon, J., Sarfati, J. and Kaiser, A.B. (1987) Thermoelectric power and electron-phonon enhancement in YBa2Cu3O7-6 Nature 328: 233–234.
  4. Five articles can be found by searching for Jonathan D Sarfati at Science Direct
  5. Sarfati, Jonathan (2015). The Genesis Account. Creation Book Publishers. p. 786. ISBN 978-1-921643-91-0.
  6. Sarfati's biography at CMI-Australia, Creationist Physical Chemist and Spectroscopist
  7. Scott E.C. and Branch G. (2003). Antievolutionism: Changes and Continuities BioScience: 53(3):282-285
  8. Robert Carter and Jonathan Sarfati, Why the Universe does not revolve around the Earth: Refuting absolute geocentrism, creation.com, 12 February 2015.
  9. Jonathan Sarfati, The flat earth myth, Creation 35(3):20–23, April 2013.
  10. Robert Carter and Jonathan Sarfati, A flat earth, and other nonsense: Dealing with ideas that would not exist were it not for the Internet, creation.com, 3 September 2016 .
  11. Jonathan Sarfati, Gay ‘marriage’ and the consistent outcome of Genesis compromise, creation.com, 30 June 2012.
  12. Jonathan Sarfati, Antidote to abortion arguments, creation.com, 2002.
  13. Jonathan Sarfati, What about abortion to save the mother’s life?, creation.com, 3 January 2014.
  14. Jonathan Sarfati, Stem cells and Genesis, Journal of Creation 15(3):19–26, 2001;
  15. Jonathan Sarfati, CMI, vaccines, and vaccination, creation.com, 2018.
  16. "Jonathan D Sarfati vs Boris Spassky 1988". ChessGames.com. Retrieved 7 January 2009.
  17. "Title and Trophy Holders". Poison Pawn. Archived from the original on 18 March 2008. Retrieved 7 January 2009.
  18. Search for Rey Casse and Chess
  19. Chess Olympiad 1986
  20. Chess Olympiad 1988
  21. Chess Olympiad 1992
  22. Asian Teams 1983
  23. Croydon chess club Archived 22 March 2012 at the Wayback Machine
  24. Sherman, Bill (3 September 2011). "Creationist to speak on young Earth theory". Tulsa World. USA. Retrieved 6 September 2011.
  25. Richardson, Bryan (27 August 2013). "Check Mates". The Manhattan Mercury. Manhattan, Kansas: Seaton Group.
  26. Lawrence, Jeana (27 August 2013). "Speaker challenges evolution, offers alternative view". The Kansas State Collegian. Retrieved 22 December 2013.
  27. Chess games at Logan Chess Club site (archive)
  28. Roberts, Earl N., Chess from behind a blindfold?, New Zealand Chess 29(3):23, June 2003.

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