Dr. Kurt Wise

Kurt Wise is Director of the Brady Center for Creation Research and Professor of Natural History at Truett McConnell University in Cleveland, Georgia. Trained as an invertebrate paleontologist (B.A., University of Chicago; M.A. & Ph.D., Harvard University), Kurt Wise previously taught 17 years at Bryan College and 3 years at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary.

Unlike the vast percentage of his fellow scientists, Kurt is a young-age creationist, trusting God’s word to conclude that the universe was created by God only about 6,000 years ago. Kurt has been engaged in young-age creation research in biology, geology, and paleontology since the mid 1980s. On these subjects, he has authored or co-authored dozens of professional papers and scores of shorter professional articles. Kurt has authored a college textbook of conceptual biology (Devotional Biology) and developed a course based upon it that is a required science course for all undergraduates at Truett McConnell University and available through Compass Classroom as a home school course. He is also currently writing several textbooks for courses he teaches at Truett McConnell University.

Kurt has been featured in a number of publications about creationism, including Ron Numbers’ history, The Creationists. In professional creationism, he was one of the founding board members of both the Creation Biology Society and the Creation Geology Society. He founded baraminology (the classification system used by most creationists) and is one of the co-architects of catastrophic plate tectonics (a creationist theory for the Genesis Flood). In the presentation of creationism to the church, he contributed the scientific content for the Creation Museum in Petersburg, Kentucky and for the Genesis 1-11 portion of the second edition (1999-2014) of Precepts Ministries’ Genesis Bible study.

Kurt is a dynamic speaker. He was a favored lecturer on the subject of a Christian worldview of science at Summit Ministries camps for fifteen years and a popular workshop leader on the subject of leadership at AWANA conferences for more than a quarter century. Kurt has spoken in churches on the subject of creationism since 1976.

Kurt and his wife Marie live in Cleveland, Georgia. They served together for thirty years in AWANA Clubs in Massachusetts, Tennessee, Kentucky, and Georgia, and more recently Kurt authored a nine-year Sunday School curriculum through the Old Testament. The Wises have two married daughters and seven grandchildren.