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Dr Jonathan Sarfati (born 1 October 1964) is a New Zealander/Australian author, editor, chess master. He has a Ph.D. in Chemistry and currently works for the Christian apologetics ministry Answers in Genesis (AiG). He is well-known for his defence of Biblical creation.
Biography
Born in Ararat, Victoria, Sarfati moved to New Zealand as a child, where he became a dual national. He attended Wellington College (New Zealand), and later he graduated from Victoria University of Wellington with a B.Sc. (Hons.) in Chemistry and a Ph.D. in Chemistry, based on his thesis: A Spectroscopic Study of some Chalcogenide Ring and Cage Molecules. He has also had papers published in peer-reviewed scientific journals including co-authoring in the journal Nature on high-temperature superconductors in 1987, when he was 22 .
Ethnically Jewish, Sarfati converted to Christianity in 1984. He describes himself as a Messianic Jew and Hebrew Christian, which he uses interchangeably (there are distinctions as well as overlap between the two movements).
In 1996 he returned to Brisbane, Australia to work for the Creation Science Foundation (now Answers in Genesis) as co-editor of their magazine, Creation, and the peer-reviewed TJ (Technical Journal).
Sarfati is married, with one stepson.
Writings
Sarfati has written numerous publications, including three books, with a fourth soon to be released. Refuting Evolution, his first book, was published in 1999, a rebuttal to the National Academy of Sciences' 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, Refuting Evolution 2, a response to a major PBS/Nova 7-part series and a Scientific American article.
His latest book, Refuting Compromise is a rebuttal of the day-age creationist teachings of Dr Hugh Ross, who attempts to harmonize the Genesis account of creation 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 Answers in Genesis website. He is a popular speaker at churches and conferences on the issue of creation versus evolution.
Chess
Sarfati also maintains a keen interest in chess. A former New Zealand national chess champion (1987/88), he represented New Zealand in three Chess Olympiads: the 27th in Dubai (1986), the 28th in Thessaloniki (1988), and the 30thin Manila (1992). He also tied Rey Casse in the Australian Junior Championship (1981), but was declared ineligible because of his New Zealand residency (yet Casse was born in England).