Dr. Robert C. Newman
Robert C. Newman is Professor of New Testament at the Biblical Theological Seminary of Hatfield, Pennsylvania (a suburb of Philadelphia) and Director of the Interdisciplinary Biblical Research Institute there. He is a frequent speaker at churches and colleges on evidences for the truth of Christianity and on the interaction between science and the Bible.
Dr. Newman is especially qualified to speak in these areas. As a theologian he has earned the degrees of Master of Divinity and Master of Sacred Theology. He has done further graduate work in religious thought at the University of Pennsylvania, in biblical geography at the Institute of Holy Land Studies (now Jerusalem University College), and in biblical interpretation at Westminster Theological Seminary. He is a past President of the Evangelical Theological Society, a professional society of nearly 3000 theologians.
In the field of science, Dr. Newman received his undergraduate degree in physics from Duke University and his doctorate in theoretical astrophysics from Cornell University. He has done scientific research for the U.S. Weather Bureau and the Franklin Institute. He is a fellow of the American Scientific Affiliation, a society of some 2500 Christians in the sciences, and Chairman of its Commission on Creation.
Dr. Newman is author or co-author of five books: Science Speaks, a popular work on the divine origin and reliability of the Bible; Genesis One and the Origin of the Earth, a more technical work relating the Bible to recent scientific discoveries on the early history of the earth; The Evidence of Prophecy, presenting the testimony of fulfilled biblical predictions to the existence of the God of the Bible, What’s Darwin Got to Do With It? A Friendly Conversation on Evolution, and The Biblical Firmament: Vault or Vapor? He has also published over a hundred articles in Christian magazines, scientific and theological journals, dictionaries, and multi-author books, including six chapters in John Warwick Montgomery's Evidence for Faith: Deciding the God Question, the section on old-earth creation in Zondervan’s Three Views on Creation and Evolution, the articles on stars in the New International Dictionary of OT Theology and Exegesis, and the articles “Creation” and “Creationism” in the Routledge Encyclopedia of Fundamentalism. He has been on TV on several occasions, including guest appearances on the 700 Club, 100 Huntley Street and A&E’s Mysteries of the Bible.
Dr. Newman is a native of Arlington, Virginia (a suburb of Washington, DC), and a resident of Hatfield, Pennsylvania. He is unmarried and lives with several seminary students at Trinity House.