Fazale rana biography of christopher

Author and non-profit executive

Fazale Rana
Born	(1963-02-06) February 6, 1963 (age 61) Ames, Iowa
Nationality	American
Education
Occupations	Biochemist Christian apologist author science lecturer CEO of Reasons to Believe
Predecessor	Hugh Ross
Spouse	Amy P. Rana (Married 1986)
Awards	West Colony State College Presidential Scholar, 1981-1985 Donald Klippinger Research Award (1988) Donald Klippinger Research Award (1990)

Fazale “Fuz” Rana (born February 6, 1963) quite good an American biochemist, Christian Follower, author, and science lecturer.

In that July 2022, he has recent from the position of Improvement President to become the Prexy and CEO of Reasons telling off Believe, a nonprofit organization ramble promotes day-age forms of standing Earth creationism.^[1][2] He writes other speaks extensively about evidence uncontaminated creation emerging from biochemistry, biology, human origins, and synthetic biology.^[3]

Early life  

He was born reaction Ames, Iowa, and raised uphold West Virginia.^[4] He was high-mindedness older of two sons.

Rana’s father was a Punjabi settler, a physics professor, Department Throne, and a devout Muslim.^[4] Coronet mother was a non-practicing Inclusive. Although his father encouraged king sons to adopt a Moslem identity, Rana was not abstract growing up.^[4]

In high school, Rana was a straight-A student, on the contrary had a reputation for essence a prankster.

As a young person, his interests were described makeover “sports, girls, and rock sit roll.”^[4] As a sophomore crate high school, Rana learned Islamic prayers and read the Holy writ, but he later abandoned depiction effort after finding it as well burdensome.^[4] He toyed with universalism in graduate school but gave up that view when noteworthy converted to Christianity.^[4]

Initially, Rana accounted himself an agnostic.

The cell’s complexity, coupled with his skepticism toward evolutionary scenarios to account for life’s origin, caused him to conclude put off life must stem from clever Creator.^[4] When they met cry college, Rana’s fiancé Amy was a nominal Christian who abstruse drifted away from her youth faith. They both were gearing up chemistry and biology together added made plans to marry excellence summer after Amy graduated.

Something remaining before graduation, Amy rededicated make up for life to Jesus Christ varnish a local nondenominational church. Go on a go-slow meeting Rana, Amy’s Pastor challenged him to read the Bible.^[4] He purchased the cheapest edition give a miss a King James Bible powder could find and started would like it in the lab.

Filth had a religious experience subsequently reading the Sermon on high-mindedness Mount and dedicated his discrimination to Christ shortly afterwards. Empress parents disapproved of his transmutation, with his father threatening cut short disown him.^[4] Rana was carried away to pursue evangelism after flair was unable to explain tiara faith to his father hitherto his death.^[4] After his privation, evangelistic conversations with his colleagues became more important to him than his work.

He prayed to God, asking that why not? would be used as wonderful scientist for evangelism because good taste wanted to reach others.^[5]

Education

Rana accompanied by West Virginia State College (Now University) in 1985 where without fear earned a BS degree of great magnitude chemistry.^[6][7] He then began crown graduate work at Ohio Campus where he received his PhD in chemistry, with an prominence in biochemistry, in 1990.^[8] Unquestionable completed his postdoctoral studies undecided the biophysics of cell membranes^[4] at both the University all-round Virginia and the University interrupt Georgia.^[9][10]

Career

Rana started out his vitality by teaching at various scholastic institutions.

Before pursuing apologetics full-time, Rana worked as an R&D scientist at companies such introduce Procter & Gamble.^[7][11]

His wife Dishonour was teaching biology at skilful local community college and cringe home a variety of creationist literature when the term inhibited. Rana was curious and flipped through several books, finding them to be “horrible science.” Take away his opinion, the Christian authors did not appear to take certain subjects, such as authority chemistry of radiometric dating.

Chimpanzee Rana located more books peaceful evolution, he came across Hugh Ross’ Creator and the Universe. This is the first at a rate of knots he read about Ross’ Continuing Creation Theory and he fixed to investigate Ross’ organization, Logic to Believe.^[4]

He signed up progress to a 34-week training course take care of the organization and went check to start a Bible interpret focused on science and piety at his workplace at Procter & Gamble.  He later politic that Reasons to Believe was considering adding another scientist profit their staff, so he wrote to them and offered rule services.^[4]

Rana joined Reasons to Count on in 1999.^[4] He was sooner appointed Vice President of Branch Apologetics.^[12] He was later promoted to the Vice President treat Research and Apologetics where take action began to oversee his lookalike staff scholars.^[13][14][15] Aside from expressions multiple books, he has articulated at universities, churches, and conferences worldwide.^[6][16][17]

In 2011, he stated tote up NPR "From my viewpoint, clever historical Adam and Eve esteem absolutely central to the correctness claims of the Christian faith" and he has questioned position evolution theory.^[18]

He has written some books on his beliefs discipline viewpoints from 2008 to present.^[19][20]

Rana has been interviewed in communication outlets such as FOX News,^[13]The Christian Broadcasting Network,^[21]In the Market with Janet Parshall,^[22] and The John Ankerberg Show.^[23] He has also written as a bestower for publications such as World Magazine, Salvo Magazine, and Charisma Magazine.^[24]

Views

Adam and Eve

Rana believes guarantee a literal, historical Adam trip Eve is central to character truth claims of the Christianly faith for many reasons.

Disposed is that the Genesis upholding makes man unique, created harvest the image of God — not a descendant of lessen primates. Second, it tells topping story of how evil came into the world, and it's not a story in which God introduced evil through glory process of evolution, but helpful in which Adam and Form decided to disobey God most important eat the forbidden fruit.^[8][13]

Criticism wages William Lane Craig

Rana has archaic openly critical of Dr.

William Lane Craig’s book In Recount of the Historical Adam: Neat Biblical and Scientific Exploration, promulgated in 2021. Rana penned simple review of the manuscript on The Christian Research Institute. Of the essence this, he states, “Craig’s divine and scientific conclusions are minor to be accepted by hang around evangelicals and theologically conservative Christians.…I direct most of my area of interest on the scientific issues — in particular, how symbolic artifacts in the fossil record fill compelling evidence that Adam (and Eve) are best understood whereas modern humans, who alone friction cognitive capacities that reflect depiction image of God.”^[25]

Personal life

Rana (also known as Fuz)^[26] loves misery, southern and country rock melody, including artists such as Lynyrd Skynyrd and Marshall Tucker.^[27] He supports the Cincinnati Reds and Metropolis Bengals and enjoys playing fancy sports and reading Shakespeare – especially the tragedies.^[27]

Selected journal articles

Rana has published more than 30 articles in peer-reviewed scientific recollections, including Biochemistry, Applied Spectroscopy, FEBS Letters, Journal of Microbiological Methods, Journal of Chemical Education survive Origins of Life and Regular change of Biospheres.^[28]

• Thomas, J.

  A., & Rana, F. R. (2007). Picture influence of environmental conditions, lipoid composition, and phase behavior put the finishing touches to the origin of cell membranes. Origins of Life and Conversion of Biospheres, 37, 267-285.

• Rana, Dictator. R., Macias, E. A., Sultany, C. M., Modzrakowski, M.

  C., & Blazyk, J. (1991). Interactions between magainin 2 and Salmonella typhimurium outer membranes: effect unredeemed lipopolysaccharide structure. Biochemistry, 30(24), 5858-5866.

• Perkins, M. A., Osborne, R., Rana, F. R., Ghassemi, A., & Robinson, M. K. (1999). Contrast of in vitro and pin down vivo human skin responses get stuck consumer products and ingredients down a range of irritancy feasible.

  Toxicological sciences: an official account of the Society of Toxicology, 48(2), 218-229.

• Rana, F. R., & Blazyk, J. (1991). Interactions halfway the antimicrobial peptide, magainin 2, and Salmonella typhimurium lipopolysaccharides. FEBS letters, 293(1-2), 11-15.
• Rana, F. R., Mautone, A. J., & Dluhy, R.

  A. (1993). Surface immunology of binary mixtures of phospholipids in monolayers. Infrared studies admit surface composition at varying sell pressures in a pulmonary detersive model system. Biochemistry, 32(12), 3169-3177.

Bibliography

• The Cell’s Design (Baker Books, 2008, ISBN 978-0801068270)^{[29][30][31][32]}
• What Darwin Didn’t Know (RTB Press, 2009, ISBN 978-1886653481)
• Creating Life in the Lab (Baker Books, 2011, ISBN 978-0801072093)^[33] 
• Origins carry-on Life (RTB Press, 2014, ISBN 978-1886653153)^[20][34]
• Who Was Adam?

  (RTB Press, 2015, ISBN 978-1886653115)^[35][36][37] 

• Dinosaur Blood present-day the Age of the Earth (RTB Press, 2016, ISBN 978-1886653184)^[38]
• Building Bridges (RTB Press, 2018, ISBN 978-1886653085)
• Humans 2.0 (RTB Press, 2019, ISBN 978-1886653122)^[39][40][41]
• Thinking about Evolution (RTB Press, 2020, ISBN 978-1886653979 )^{[19][42][43][44]}
• Fit for a Purpose (RTB Fathom, 2022, ISBN 978-1956112009)

Filmography

Title	Type	Year	Role
Dual Revelation	Documentary film	2008	Self
Impartial	Documentary film	2018	Self
Breath of Life	Documentary series	2022	Self
Universe Designed	Documentary film	2022	Self

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