Reasons To Believe

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Reasons to Believe
Formation 1986
Type Religious ministry
Legal status Non-profit
Purpose/focus Old Earth creationist Christian apologetics
Headquarters Glendora, California, USA
President and Founder Hugh Ross
Budget $3,131,508[1]
Staff 5 Research Scholars
Volunteers 207 Volunteer Apologists
Website www.reasonstobelieve.org
Remarks Twitter: @RTB_official [2] RTB youtube[3]

Reasons To Believe is a progressive creationist ministry that promotes day-age forms of old Earth creationism. It was founded in 1986 by Hugh Ross, a Canadian-born astrophysicist and creationist Christian apologist.[4] Based in Los Angeles, the mission of Reasons To Believe is to demonstrate that "sound reason and scientific research—including the very latest discoveries—consistently support, rather than erode, confidence in the truth of the Bible and faith in the personal, transcendent God revealed in both Scripture and nature."

Reasons To Believe has 26 books published and over 1564 articles written. Reasons To Believe has held events all over the world.[5] Reasons To Believe has also produced many DVDs, TV shows, audio CDs, MP3s, podcasts, streaming events and teleconferences. "Science News Flash" reviews news headline of scientific discoveries. Reasons To Believe educational programs includes both credit classes and non credit classes.[6][7]

Reasons To Believe has 46 Chapters around the world with volunteer scholars and volunteer apologists.[8][9]

Staff Research Scholars

  • Dr. Hugh Ross: President & Founder and astrophysicist.
  • Fazale Rana: Executive Vice President of Research & Apologetics; and biologist-researcher in biochemistry. Known as "Fuz" Rana[10]
  • Kenneth R. Samples: Scholar, theologian and former Bible Answer Man[11]
  • Dr. Jeff Zweerink: Research Scholar, space researcher and former university teacher. Jeff has worked on STACEE, VERITAS gamma-ray telescopes, and GAPS- General Antiparticle Spectrometer a balloon experiment seeking to detect dark matter.[12][13][14]
  • Reasons To Believe has a visiting scholar program, where research scholars will take a break from their academic or commercial careers to work with Reasons To Believe, continuing their research, but with Reasons To Believe.[15]

References

  1. ↑ Religion: Religious Media and Advertising- Reasons To Believe by Charity Navigator
  2. ↑ twitter.com RTB
  3. ↑ RTB youtube
  4. ↑ reasons.org, About Hugh Ross
  5. ↑ reasons.org, RTB Events
  6. ↑ reasons.org, Educational programs
  7. ↑ Hope International University, on Reasons To Believe's Reasons Institute (RI)
  8. ↑ reasons.org, RTB Chapters
  9. ↑ reasons.org, RTB volunteer
  10. ↑ reasons.org About Fazale "Fuz" Rana
  11. ↑ reasons.org, About Ken Samples
  12. ↑ UCLA, GAPS (General Antiparticle Spectrometer)
  13. ↑ reasons.org, About Jeff Zweerink
  14. ↑ Cornell University, The General Antiparticle Spectrometer (GAPS) - Hunt for dark matter using low-energy antideuterons, by Ph. von Doetinchem, T. Aramaki, St.Boggs, W. Craig, H. Fuke, F. Gahbauer, Ch. Hailey, J. Koglin, N. Madden, I. Mognet, K. Mori, R. Ong, T. Yoshida, T. Zhang, J. Zweerink, submitted on 1 Dec 2010.
  15. ↑ linkedin.com, Reasons To Believe

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