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Dr Pierre Jerlström earned a B.Sc. (Hons.) in microbiology (University of Queensland, Australia) and a Ph.D. in molecular biology (Griffith University, Queensland). He has held postdoctoral research positions in Switzerland (Department of Medical Biochemistry, University of Geneva), Germany (Technical University of Braunschweig), Sweden (Department of Medical Microbiology, University of Göteborg), and Australia (Department of Biochemistry, University of Queensland). In 1998, he became a staff scientist with Creation Ministries International, Australia, and is the editor of the in-depth scientific Journal of Creation. Dr Jerlström is convinced that the Bible is the Word of God and 100% reliable. Pierre was born near Stockholm, Sweden, to a Spanish mother and Swedish father, growing up as bilingual. He now speaks four languages: Spanish, Swedish, German and English. His was a caring, conservative family but with no clear Christian upbringing in the way of reading the Bible or attending church. Pierre recalls, “My mother was nominal Catholic and my father a Lutheran, both non-practising. They had agreed not to ‘force’ religion upon me and my two sisters but leave it to us to make a choice when we were mature enough to decide—typical of the very secular Scandinavian mindset at that time.” When he was six …
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