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Fazale “Fuz” Rana (born February 6, 1963 ) is a biochemist, Christian Apologist, author, and science lecturer. Since July 2022, he has been moved up from Vice President to the President and CEO of Reasons to Believe, a nonprofit organization that promotes day-age forms of old Earth creationism.^[1][2] He writes and speaks extensively about supposed evidence for creation emerging from biochemistry, genetics, human origins, and synthetic biology.^[3]

Early Life  

He was born in Ames, Iowa and raised in West Virginia.^[4] He was the oldest of two sons. Rana’s father was a Punjabi immigrant, a physics professor, Department Chair, and a devout Muslim.^[4] His mother was a non-practicing Catholic. Although his father encouraged his sons to adopt a Muslim identity, Rana was not religious growing up.^[4]

As a sophomore in high school, Rana learned Islamic prayers and read the Koran, but he later abandoned the effort after finding it too burdensome.^[4] He toyed with universalism in graduate school but gave up that view when he converted to Christianity.^[4]

Education

Rana attended West Virginia State College (Now University) in 1985 where he earned a BS degree in chemistry.^[5][6] He then began his graduate work at Ohio University where he received his PhD in chemistry, with an emphasis in biochemistry, in 1990.^[7] He completed his postdoctoral studies at the University of Virginia and the University of Georgia.^[8]

Career

Rana started out his career by teaching at various academic institutions. Before pursuing apologetics full-time Rana worked as an R&D scientist at companies such as Procter & Gamble.^[6][9]

Rana joined Reasons to Believe in 1999.^[4] He was eventually appointed Vice President of Science Apologetics.^[10] He was later promoted to the Vice President of Research and Apologetics where he began to oversee his fellow staff scholars.^[11][12][13] Aside from writing multiple books, he has spoken at universities, churches, and conferences worldwide.^[5][14][15]

In 2011, he stated to NPR "From my viewpoint, a historical Adam and Eve is absolutely central to the truth claims of the Christian faith" and he has questioned the evolution theory.^[16]

He has written several books on his beliefs and viewpoints from 2008 to present.^[17][18]

Selected journal articles

Rana has published more than 30 articles in peer-reviewed scientific journals, including Biochemistry, Applied Spectroscopy, FEBS Letters, Journal of Microbiological Methods, Journal of Chemical Education and Origins of Life and Evolution of Biospheres.^[19]

• Thomas, J. A., & Rana, F. R. (2007). The influence of environmental conditions, lipid composition, and phase behavior on the origin of cell membranes. Origins of Life and Evolution of Biospheres, 37, 267-285.
• Rana, F. R., Macias, E. A., Sultany, C. M., Modzrakowski, M. C., & Blazyk, J. (1991). Interactions between magainin 2 and Salmonella typhimurium outer membranes: effect of lipopolysaccharide structure. Biochemistry, 30(24), 5858-5866.
• Perkins, M. A., Osborne, R., Rana, F. R., Ghassemi, A., & Robinson, M. K. (1999). Comparison of in vitro and in vivo human skin responses to consumer products and ingredients with a range of irritancy potential. Toxicological sciences: an official journal of the Society of Toxicology, 48(2), 218-229.
• Rana, F. R., & Blazyk, J. (1991). Interactions between the antimicrobial peptide, magainin 2, and Salmonella typhimurium lipopolysaccharides. FEBS letters, 293(1-2), 11-15.
• Rana, F. R., Mautone, A. J., & Dluhy, R. A. (1993). Surface chemistry of binary mixtures of phospholipids in monolayers. Infrared studies of surface composition at varying surface pressures in a pulmonary surfactant model system. Biochemistry, 32(12), 3169-3177.

Bibliography

• The Cell’s Design (Baker Books, 2008, ISBN 978-0801068270)^{[20][21][22][23]}
• What Darwin Didn’t Know (RTB Press, 2009, ISBN ‎978-1886653481)
• Creating Life in the Lab (Baker Books, 2011, ISBN 978-0801072093)^[24] 
• Origins of Life (RTB Press, 2014, ISBN 978-1886653153)^[18][25]
• Who Was Adam? (RTB Press, 2015, ISBN 978-1886653115)^{[26][27][28][29]}  
• Dinosaur Blood and the Age of the Earth (RTB Press, 2016, ISBN 978-1886653184)^[30]
• Building Bridges (RTB Press, 2018, ISBN 978-1886653085)
• Humans 2.0 (RTB Press, 2019, ISBN 978-1886653122)^[31][32][33]
• Thinking about Evolution (RTB Press, 2020, ISBN 978-1886653979 )^{[17][34][35][36]}
• Fit for a Purpose (RTB Press, 2022, ISBN 978-1956112009)

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