Jonathan Sarfati, who has a doctorate in physical chemistry, had a lot to say about science and the Bible on Monday night in the Jim Thorpe Multicultural Center.
Sarfati began his lecture saying his job consists of refuting the theories of Charles Darwin, the creator of evolutionary theory. Sarfati is a noted evolution-denier and young-Earth creationist
He admits that his teachings are very different from what students are taught in school.
“I’m hoping that students will open their minds to ideas that may not be taught in their classes but were actually taught in the first universities of the world,” Sarfati said.
His main premise is that there must be an organizer or creator for every organized system, and this creator is what makes all science possible.
There is a distinction between operational science and historical science, Sarfati said. He cited boiling water and gravity as examples of operational science, whereas historical science consists of things that happened in the past, and which humans cannot see.
Though he embraces operational science, he does not believe in historical science and, therefore, does not believe in evolution, Sarfati said.
Sarfati drew parallels between scientific and biblical truths through slides that displayed corresponding statements.
One scientific statement is “The universe is real,” Sarfati said. Its biblical counterpart would be “God created the universe,” he said.
Following the lecture, he answered questions from the OU community members in a question and answer session.
Sarfati has written several books about creation science, his first in 1999 titled "Refuting Evolution."
Born in Australia, he attended Wellington College in New Zealand and now lives in Atlanta, Georgia, where he works full-time for Creation Ministries, a group that seeks to proclaim the truth and authority of the bible.
Sarfati said he hopes his lecture brings a new perspective to OU students.
“I hope that students can learn to appreciate the Christian foundations of science and abandon this idea that Christianity and science have been at warfare,” he said. “This is not historically true or logically true.”
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