John F. Ashton (ed.)

Dr. John F. Ashton is an Australian scientist (food-industry research specialty), Adjunct Professor of Biomedical Sciences at Victoria University Melbourne, and a Fellow of the Royal Australian Chemical Institute. He holds a B.Sc. honors in chemistry, an M.Sc. in chemistry (University of Tasmania), and a Ph.D. in epistemology (University of Newcastle). He is best known as editor of In Six Days: Why Fifty Scientists Choose to Believe in Creation (1999), a compilation of 50 essays from doctorate-holding scientists across multiple disciplines articulating their reasons for affirming literal six-day creation. He has subsequently edited and authored additional creation-and-faith titles. His role in the registry is principally as editor / compiler-curator of the YEC scientific-essay genre rather than as a primary theological voice.