Perhaps this is a question we all need to ask and have answered! I was born in 1944 into a family where active Christianity went back at least four generations before mine. So I was brought up with an orthodox understanding of the faith, and although most, if not all, scientists I came across told me evolution was proven fact, which clearly conflicted with the teaching in the Bible, I took the view that even though I couldn't argue with them, since God knew a lot more about it than they did and the Bible was His word, then they must be wrong!

It was only in the early 1990's that I first met a scientist, Ken Ham, who told me scientific observation did not disprove the Bible and that evolution was based not on observation but speculation driven by the belief that God did not exist. He led an organisation called Creation Science Foundation, which has since 'evolved' into Answers in Genesis, and was also linked with the American Institute for Creation Research. I started to take their monthly magazine and was soon overwhelmed by the scientific information, based, not on speculation but observation, that confirmed for me the truth of everything I read in the Bible, and disproved the notion that the universe evolved from a Big Bang and that life evolved from inanimate matter and developed into every life form we see on earth today.

At the end of the 1990's, I started attending local, monthly lectures organised by the molecular biologist, Geoff Barnard, who gave some mind-boggling studies on the way living things are constructed and function, along with other scientists whom he invited to speak on their specialities, which over a few years covered pretty well everything - geology, astronomy, mechanical design, etc.

I am not a scientist - I am a retired piano technician; but since meeting Ken Ham I have collected and/or read dozens of books and magazines, along with very many web pages, written by evolutionists and creationists. I often found the books by evolutionists confirmed creation for me, rather than caused me to doubt it! Fired up with all this information, I was telling one of my clients about creation in the mid-2000's and she loaned me a book she said I needed to read. It was Massimo Pigliucci's book, Denying Evolution, published in 2002 and was written by this molecular evolutionist in order to counter the claims of creation.