John Hartnett

Who is John Hartnett?

John G. Hartnett, is an Australian physicist and cosmologist, and a Christian with a biblical creationist worldview. He has been active with Creation Ministries International and is known for his opposition to the Big Bang theory and criticism of the Dark Matter and Dark Energy hypotheses. He received both his BSc and PhD with distinction from the School of Physics at the University of Western Australia. He currently works as a Research Fellow at the University of Adelaide, South Australia. He has published more than 200 papers in scientific journals, book chapters and conference proceedings, holds one patent, works on the development of ultra-stable cryocooled sapphire oscillators and participated on a Sapphire Clock Ensemble project run by the European Space Agency. He also has written articles for several creationist journals and, according to Creation Ministries International, Hartnett "believes that God is the real creator of the universe as the Bible says."