Ariel A. Roth

Ariel A. Roth (born 1927) is a zoologist and creationist who was born in Geneva, Switzerland,^[1] He now lives in the United States. He is a leading figure in the field of flood geology,^[2] having been involved and published extensively on the creation-evolution controversy.^[3]

Roth is a former professor and chairman of Biology at Emmanuel Missionary College, now Andrews University.^[4] and at Loma Linda University.^[5] He is also the former director of the Seventh-day Adventist run Geoscience Research Institute at Loma Linda University.^[6] He served as editor of the journal Origins for 23 years.^[7][8]

After receiving his PhD in Biology at the University of Michigan, Roth pursued research in invertebrate zoology and on fossil and living coral reefs funded by NOAA, the National Institutes of Health, and other government agencies. He obtained additional training to facilitate his research in Radiation Biology, Geology and Mathematics at various campuses of the University of California. He has been long time member of the Geological Society of America and the Society for Sedimentary Geology. Roth has published many articles in both scientific and popular journals and lectured world wide.^[9]

Contents 1 Early life 2 Education 3 Career 4 Advocacy of creationism 5 Selected publications 6 Notes 7 See also 8 References 9 External links 9.1 Audio lectures 9.2 Videos lectures 9.3 Pictures of Roth

Early life

Ariel Roth's parents were Andre and Hazel Roth, Seventh-day Adventist missionaries who served in Haiti, France and Switzerland. His oldest brother, Lionel Andre Roth, also attended PUC and graduated with a medical degree from Loma Linda in 1946. He had a sister, Elvire Hilgert.^[10]

Education

Roth received his B.A. in Biology from Pacific Union College in 1948, and his M.S. in Biology (1949)^[11] and Ph.D. in Parasitology (1955) from the University of Michigan.^[12]

Career

In the fall of 1950, Roth joined the biology department at Pacific Union College (PUC).^[13] He worked at PUC until 1957. In 1958, Roth took the place of Frank L. Marsh as chairman of the biology department at Emmanuel Missionary College (EMC), now known as Andrews University.^[14]

In 1961, while Roth was head of the biology department at EMC, the United States Public Health Service awarded the department $17,082 to be used in a three-year study of the disease schistosomiasis.^[15] During the 1950s and 1960s Roth published several studies related to this disease and its related snail vector.^[16]

In May 1974, Roth and two other scientists from Loma Linda Univsersity lived for a week 50 feet under the ocean's surface near Freeport, Grand Bahama Island. His team studied coral formations. The three lived in an anchored 18-foot metal hydro-lab when not conducting their experiments. The underwater laboratory and sleeping quarters was operated by the United States National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and was used by several groups.^[17]

Advocacy of creationism

In late 1972 or early 1973 he presented to the California Board of Education hearings on Creation and the classroom.^[18]

In 1980, Roth argued that "Creation and various other views can be supported by the scientific data that reveal that the spontaneous origin of the complex integrated biochemical systems of even the simplest organisms is, at best, a most improbable event", which is regarded as a precursor to Michael Behe's irreducible complexity argument, which has been the subject of considerable empirical refutation from the scientific community.^[19] Roth later used a version of this argument in his testimony in McLean v. Arkansas (which struck down the Arkansas Balanced Treatment for Creation-Science and Evolution-Science Act),^[20] where he testified in support of the scientific merits of creationism,^[21] but admitted that "[i]f you want to define 'science' as testable, predictable" then creation science is not really science.^[22] In the same year, he testified before the Oregon House Education Committee in support of a similar "balanced treatment" law.^[23]

Selected publications

1950s

• Roth, A.A. 1955. Gametogenesis in the final generation of Schistosomatium dotthitti (Cort, 1914) Price, 1931 (Trematoda: Schistosomatidae). Dissertation Abstracts 15(4):647-648.
• Roth, A.A. and E.D. Wagner. 1957. The anatomy of the male and female reproductive systems of Onco-melania nosophora. Transactions of the American Microscopical Society 74:52-69.

1960s

• Roth, A.A. 1960. Aspects of the function of the bursa copulatrix and seminal receptacle in the prosobranch snail Oncomelania formosana Pilsbry and Hirase. Transactions of the American Microscopical Society 79: 412-419.
• Roth, A.A. and E.D. Wagner. 1960a. The development of sexual maturity in Oncomelania nosophora (Robson) snail vector of oriental schistosomiasis. Transactions of the American Microscopical Society 79:429-438.
• Roth, A.A. and E.D. Wagner. 1960b. Notes on the production of eggs in Oncomelania nosophora and O. formosana. Nautilus 73:147-151.
• Roth, A.A. and L.N. Hare. 1966. Effect of Schistosoma mansoni on amino acid levels in a chemically defined medium. (Abstract) American Society of Parasitologists, 41st Annual Meeting, San Juan, Puerto Rico, p. 60.
• Roth, A.A. and H.E. Heidtke. 1966. Removal of schisto-somes from hosts with minimal physiological disturbance to the parasite. Transactions of the American Microscopical Society 85:422-426.
• Tkachuck, R.D. and A.A. Roth. 1967. Free amino acids in plasm of mice infected with Schistosoma mansoni. (Abstract) American Society of Parasitologists, 42nd Annual Meeting, Tucson, Arizona, p. 29.
• Carter, C.E. and A.A. Roth. 1967. Carbon dioxide fixation in Schistosoma mansoni. (Abstract) American Society of Parasitologists, 42nd Annual Meeting, Tucson, Arizona, p. 30.

1970s

• Roth, A.A. 1971a. Effect of various light treatments of calcification rates in Acropora sp. (Abstract) R/V Alpha Helix Research Program, 1971, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, San Diego, p. 21.
• Roth, A.A. 1971b. Effect of the addition of nutrients on the variability of calcification rates in a single colony of Pocillopora damicornis. (Abstract) R/V Alpha Helix Research Program, 1971, Scripps Institution of Oceano-graphy, San Diego, pp. 21–22.
• Roth, A.A. 1971c. Estimate of carbonate production of some species on Japtan Reef. (Abstract) R/V Alpha Helix Research Program, 1971, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, San Diego, p. 22.
• Johannes, R.E. and 22 other authors including A.A. Roth. 1972. Project Symbios: an examination of the metabolism of some coral reef communities. BioScience 22:541-543.
• Roth, A.A. 1974c. Factors affecting light as an agent for carbonate production by coral. (Abstract) Geological Society of America Abstracts 6:932.
• Roth, A.A. 1975. The pervasiveness of the paradigm. Origins 2:55-57.
• Roth, A.A. 1975. Turbidites. Origins 2:106-107.
• Roth, A.A. 1975e. Some effects of light on calcification in coral. Abstracts of Symposia and Contributed Papers for the Fifty-Sixth Annual Meeting (San Francisco State University, December 26–30, 1975) of the Western Society of Naturalists, p. 29.
• Clausen, C.D. and A.A. Roth. 1975a. Estimation of coral growth rates from laboratory 45Ca-incorporation rates. Marine Biology 33:85-91.
• Clausen, C.D. and A.A. Roth. 1975b. Effect of temperature and temperature adaptation on calcification rate in the hermatypic coral Pocillopora damicornis. Marine Biology 33:93-100.
• Smith, A.D. and A.A. Roth. 1977. Carbon dioxide and calcification in the red coralline alga, Bossiella orbigniana. (Abstract) Pacific Division, American Associa-tion for the Advancement of Science, 58th Annual Meeting, San Francisco State University.
• Roth, A.A. 1978c. Creation concepts should be taught in public schools. Liberty 73(5):3, 24-27; Rebuttal, 28-29.
• Smith, A.D. and A.A. Roth. 1979. Effect of carbon dioxide concentration on calcification in the red coralline alga Bossiella orbigniana. Marine Biology 52:217-225.

1980s

• Roth, A.A. 1980a. Implications of various interpretations of the fossil record. Origins 7:71-86.
• Crabtree, D.M., C.D. Clausen, and A.A. Roth. 1980. Consistency in growth line counts in bivalve specimens. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 29:323-340.
• Roth, A.A., C.D. Clausen, P.Y. Yahiku, V.E. Clausen, and W.W. Cox. 1982. Some effects of light on coral growth. Pacific Science 36:65-81.
• Roth, A.A. 1983b. Why some scientists believe in creation. These Times 92(3):6-11.
• Roth, A.A. 1984a. The current controversy over origins. Part I: teaching creation in public schools. The Journal of Adventist Education 46(3):30-31,35-37.
• Roth, A.A. 1984b. The current controversy over origins. Part II: Seventh-day Adventists and the creation movement in the United States. The Journal of Adventist Education 46(4):31-32,39-40.
• Hodges, L.T. and Roth, A.A. 1986. Orientation of corals and stromatoporoids in some Pleistocene, Devonian, and Silurian reef facies. Journal of Paleontology 60:1147-1158.

1990s

• Roth, A.A. 1995. Fossil reefs and time. Origins 22:86-104.
• Roth, A.A. 1998. The disadvantage of collective ignorance. The Record (Australia), August 29, 1998, p. 3.
• Roth, A.A. 1998. Origins: Linking Science and Scripture. Review and Herald Publishing Association.

Notes

See also

• Geoscience Research Institute
• Flood geology
• Young earth creationism
• Leonard R. Brand
• McLean v. Arkansas
• Creation and evolution in public education

References

• Bull, Malcolm; Lockhart, Keith (2007). Seeking a sanctuary: Seventh-day Adventism and the American dream (2nd ed.). Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press. pp. 329–331. ISBN 13: 978-0-253-34764-0. http://books.google.ca/books?id=ACUBSUGQCMYC&pg=PA330&lpg=PA330&dq=roth+ritland+Geoscience&source=bl&ots=1j99QJ1Coc&sig=AAX6txMl8PG9QREqtqjzZI4IQ7Y&hl=en&ei=mazeTu-4H-bt0gG-85ibAg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=4&ved=0CCsQ6AEwAw#v=onepage&q=roth%20ritland%20Geoscience&f=false. 
• Hayword, James L. (March 1996). "The many faces of Adventist creationism: '80-'95". Spectrum (Association of Adventist Forums) 25 (3): 16–34. http://spectrummagazine.org/files/archive/archive21-25/25-3hayward.pdf. Retrieved 2011-12-06. 
• Land, Gary (2005). Geoscience Research Institute (GRI) in Historical dictionary of the Seventh-day Adventists. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press. pp. 112–113. ISBN 0-8108-5345-0. http://books.google.ca/books?id=fFYFLksIywcC&pg=PA112&dq=%22geoscience+research+institute+(GRI)%22&hl=en&ei=d7TeTpW6J8Xc0QG6pYzWCA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=4&ved=0CEYQ6AEwAw#v=onepage&q=%22geoscience%20research%20institute%20(GRI)%22&f=false. 
• Lugenbeal, Edward (n.d.). "The conservative restoration at Geoscience". Spectrum 15 (2): 23–31. http://www.spectrummagazine.org/files/archive/archive11-15/15-2lugenbeal.pdf. Retrieved 2011-12-06. 
• Numbers, Ronald (2006). The Creationists. Harvard University press. 
• Roth, Ariel A. Curriculum Vitae. [1]
• Roth, Ariel (1998). Origins: Linking Science and Scripture. Hagerstown, MD: Review and Herald Publishing Association. ISBN 0828013284. 

External links

• "Who are we? Ariel Roth". SWAU Earth History Research Center. Southwestern Adventist University. 2010. http://origins.swau.edu/who/roth/default.html. Retrieved 2011-11-26. 
• "Deposition of Ariel Roth". McLean v. Arkansas Documentation Project. November 16, 1981. http://www.antievolution.org/cs/mclean_roth_depo_1. Retrieved 2011-11-24. 
• "Depositions,". McLean v. Arkansas Documentation Project. http://www.antievolution.org/cs/node/704. Retrieved 2011-11-24. 
• The Bible Science Association
• "Past Events: Visiting Scientists Lecture Series & Video Presentations". Creation Science Fellowship of Calvary Chapel, Costa Mesa, CA. http://www.darwinisdead.com/Creation%20Science%20Fellowship%20of%20Calvary%20Chapel.htm. Retrieved 2011-11-24. 
• Young Earth and Old Earth Perspectives Compared by Chart (scroll down to chart)
• Calvary Chapel Academy of Boston. Pastor Mitchell's page, 10th Grade Bible Class Outline. Includes Ariel Roth's essay, chapter 7, of In Six Days book as part of the curriculum resource material.

Audio lectures

• Roth, Ariel (2010). "Some scientific data that favors a recent creation". AudioVerse. Geoscience Research Institute. https://www.audioverse.org/english/sermons/recordings/2417/some-scientific-data-that-favors-a-recent-creation.html. Retrieved 2011-11-26.  Includes audio recording of Roth's presentation. General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists, 59th Session, Atlanta, Georgia, US. Recorded 6/27/10, 5:45 PM

Videos lectures

• Case for Short Age, 1-9-2010
• Paraconformities in the Geologic Column, 1-23-10
• Roth The Sequence in the Fossil Record, 4-24-10
• Report on General Conference, 7-3-2010
• Fossil Reefs and Time, 8-14-2010
• Coral Reefs and Time, 8-21-2010
• The Fossil Termite Nest Controversy, 10-23-2010
• The Bible and Science, 7-9-2011
• The Bible and Science (part 2), 7-16-2011
• Flat Gaps in the Rocks Challenge the Long Geologic, Ages 7-30-2011
• Understanding Creation (part 4) - Can I Believe in a Worldwide Flood?, 10-29-2011
• 6. Word Pictures - Genesis 6 - The Biblical Flood

Pictures of Roth

• "Symbios Participants, July 1971". University of South Florida - St. Petersburg. http://www.usfsp.edu/cdelia/symbios%20website/BetzerJUL71N121cropped.jpg. Retrieved 2011-11-26. 
• "The R/V Alpha Helix Symbios Expedition, A Milestone in Coral Reef Research, Symbios Participants, July 1971". University of South Florida - St. Petersburg. http://www.usfsp.edu/cdelia/symbios%20website/symbios%20participants.htm. Retrieved 2011-11-26.  (includes pictures of all participants)

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