Gary Bates

Gary Bates is a former a committed evolutionist, who is now an active creation evangelist who has been involved with the creation/evolution debate since 1990. He became the head of ministry for Creation Ministries International in Australia, then in late 2009 moved to the United States and became the CEO of CMI in the United States. In November 2008 Bates became the first CEO of CMI Worldwide, the federation of CMI Ministries around the world.

He is also a regular contributor to Creation Magazine, and is on the magazine's editorial staff.

Bates has a keen interest in the UFO phenomenon and wrote the Amazon.com top 50 bestseller Alien Intrusion: UFOs and the Evolution Connection. In July 2009 he was the keynote speaker at the first Christian symposium on the UFO phenomenon held in Roswell, New Mexico.

In May 2010, at the Creation Supercamp in Asheville, North Carolina, Bates encouraged the use of the term 'biblical creationists' over 'young-earth creationists'. This was later repeated in a newsletter article in September of the same year, and later published on the CMI web site

Publications
Articles
 * Raising godly children
 * Refuting compromising critic of CMI seminar
 * What would life be like without creation ministries?
 * Did God create over billions of years?
 * Religious spin merchants
 * Redressing the imbalance
 * We are ‘biblical creationists?
 * Why do children lose their trust in the Bible?
 * Not just another book on ‘Why me, Lord?’
 * Did God create life on other planets? Otherwise why is the universe so big?
 * Patriarchs of the forest (old trees suggest a recent creation)
 * Jesus, teaching the big picture from Genesis
 * Dealing with difficult issues
 * Why doesn’t the church taste good any more?
 * Evolution and the science of fiction: A denial of the awesome Creator
 * Designed by aliens? Discoverers of DNA’s structure attack Christianity
 * UFOs and aliens-is there something going on?
 * Global warming might become an ‘alien agenda’
 * Hosing down the hype
 * Seeing a way through the forest
 * What really happened at Roswell?
 * ‘Plugging the back door’
 * Legalizing abortion-no-one is safe anymore: Compromise on ‘made in the image of God’ is taking us into Hitler’s gas chambers
 * Death of a guru
 * Muslims agree that the church should stop watering down the message
 * Australia’s worst-ever bushfire disaster
 * Churches celebrating the ‘Year of Darwin’
 * Foxes crying foul in the henhouse!
 * Is ‘string’ the next big thing?
 * Who were the sons of God in Genesis 6? (from Alien Intrusion)
 * Multiverse theory-unknown science or illogical ‘raison d’etre’?
 * Christians shaped by experiences rather than the ‘Bible first’ approach
 * Reaching out at Roswell
 * The UFO phenomenon-growing and not going away!
 * The Fourth Kind movie review
 * Reaction to CMI’s review of The Fourth Kind
 * Are young-earth creationists irrational knuckle-brains?
 * Haiti’s horrendous earthquake disaster
 * Does CMI believe in an old earth?
 * Is it ‘unjust’ that the whole creation should suffer because of Adam’s sin? and Is long-age creationist a misnomer?
 * Avatar Aspirations: Sci fi helps create an alternate belief system
 * Dispensing the cure for a sick society
 * Dealing with the heart of the problem
 * Catching the vision-an amazing story!
 * ‘What goes up…’
 * Alien Apologetics
 * Alien & skeptics
 * Aliens, evolution and the occult
 * Christians ‘ducking and weaving’ on campus
 * Creation-now on the table!
 * An awesome mind
 * Muslims agree that the church should stop watering down the message
 * Exploding the big bang!
 * Fast food giant firms up alien beliefs
 * ET needed evolution
 * Is the Bible falsifiable?
 * Is the Bible falsifiable? And would a real live ET do it?
 * NASA astronaut Ed Mitchell says aliens are with us
 * Off the planet!
 * One ‘Harmless’ Movie
 * Out of this world!
 * The return of the Nephilim?
 * Saved via aliens?
 * SETI-religion or science?
 * SETI-coming in from the cold of space
 * Still running for God
 * That quote!-about the missing transitional fossils
 * The Battle of Chang-Sha
 * The bottom line-it’s about people!
 * The war of the worlds comes down to Earth
 * Water, water, where are you?
 * Who’s transforming our society?
 * ‘A donkey for Jesus’
 * Back on solid ground
 * Christians shaped by experiences rather than the ‘Bible first’ approach
 * Signs the movie-God vs the aliens!
 * String theory-‘philosophy’ challenged
 * Can bunny rabbits be saved?
 * Absolute truth and winning the ‘culture wars’
 * Doctor to the disadvantaged
 * How to reach into schools without reaching into schools!
 * Pew survey reveals basic ignorance of Christian belief
 * Martian Fossils? Dissecting the media hype
 * Compromising chaplain castigates creation, round 2
 * Are ghosts real? Are people really communicating with the spirits of the dead?
 * Prepare ye the way-the aliens are coming!
 * Is the whole creation fallen?
 * Does Creation make the Gospel a laughing stock?
 * What about ghost sightings?
 * Racism-a consequence of evolution?
 * UFOlogy: the world’s fastest-growing ‘scientific’ religion?
 * Confirmations from creationist cosmology and countering 'close encounters'

Books
 * Alien Intrusion: UFOs and the Evolution Connection-updated and expanded 416 page paperback.

DVDs
 * Aliens, UFO’s and the Bible
 * Alien Abductions and UFOs-Exposed!
 * Close Encounters of the 'Fourth Kind'
 * Creation Not Confusion

Interviews
 * Aliens in your bedroom?