Joseph Hubbard
Joseph Hubbard is the Director of Creation Research UK, and is a speaker, writer and researcher for Creation Research Worldwide. He has been working with Creation Research since 2014, but has been involved in creation-based ministry since the second half of the 2000’s. In 2012, he founded the Genesis Museum of Creation Research, which was to become Creation Research’s first UK museum. He remains as the curator and director of the museum today, where his new finds and research are continually added to the displays. In 2017, he, alongside John Mackay (International Director, Creation Research) founded the Creation Research UK Museum Project, with the goal to create a series of museums throughout the UK.
Joseph has been collecting fossils since the age of six, a passion which has continued throughout his life. His research finds are often reported on in CR’s ‘Evidence News’, and often on Creation Research’s Facebook and Instagram. He has completed various levels of degrees in geology (majoring in paleobiology) and Zoology, and has completed specialist courses and diplomas in genetics, dinosaurian palaeontology, Biblical archaeology, British archaeology, and mycology. His studies in zoology led him to work in the animal care industry as a zookeeper for 6 years, before joining Creation Research full time as UK director in 2019.
Joseph has been a speaker for Creation Research since 2014 and has spoken in numerous conferences and churches around the UK, having accompanied CR international director John Mackay many times as well. He co-presented a research paper on stalagmite formation at the 2017 Mega conference, run by Answers in Genesis, has spoken in colleges, schools and universities, as well as churches and groups throughout the world. Joseph leads field trips around the UK and USA, taking all ages, from children to university professors. He has also contributed to the ‘Ask John Mackay’ website, and to several research books published by Creation Research. In 2019, he founded the Rocks Cry Out project, a creation field guide series, alongside Maiden Films.
Joseph is unashamedly Christian, and has a passion, not just to provide evidence of God’s role as Creator and Judge, but also as mankind’s Saviour. He not only teaches on science and creation but also presents sermons to churches around the world.
Craig Hawkins
Craig was raised in a Christian family and is the son of a Church of Christ pastor. He has worked with Creation Research on various occasions since 2006 and became fulltime in 2022.
Craig graduated in science at the Australian National University, achieving the Schlich Medal and Timber Industry Awards. He later gained and a Master’s Degree in Plant Science from the University of Tasmania. He has worked in both public and private forestry in NSW and Tasmania. His wife Rachelle was head biologist at Seahorse World, a unique seahorse farm and well-known Tasmanian tourism attraction. He left forestry and they purchased Seahorse World in 2002.
Craig lives in Beauty Point, Tasmania, where he serves as an Elder in the local Baptist Church. Craig and Rachelle joined with Brendan and De Arn Foley to open the Creation Discovery Centre Tasmania (CDCT) in 2021, adjacent Seahorse World.
Craig acts as chair of the CDCT Board. The CDCT is part of the broader Creation Research museum network which also has displays in Queensland, England and the USA. The Creation Discovery Centre has had many opportunities to witness to people since opening and has seen people give their lives to Jesus Christ as a result of visiting.
In 2006 Craig teamed up with John Mackay, international director of Creation Research, to debate the Atheist Foundation of Australia in Launceston Tasmania, where a resounding victory was achieved. The following year they debated the Rationalist Society at Melbourne University. Since joining Creation Research full-time Craig’s focus has been on museum development, research around Tasmania and speaking engagements to men’s groups, youth groups, churches and schools. In 2025 John Mackay decided to “pass the baton” and now Craig oversees management of Creation Research in Australia while John Mackay focuses on research and writing.
Craig’s main passion is to see people saved in a relationship with the Lord Jesus Christ. He views evolution as a major deception in this world, especially to Australian and western culture. Spare time is spent watching his children’s sport, managing his Tasmanian Blue Gum plantation and fossil hunting.
John Mackay
John Mackay has been one of the leading Creation speakers in the world for more than 40 years. He has publicly debated many leading evolutionists and academics from prestigious institutions such as Oxford and Cambridge as well as Australian, Canadian, and USA institutions and others across the globe.
John Mackay graduated in Geology as well as Genetics from Queensland University and was a science teacher in both state and private secondary education in Queensland. He also lectured in Geology at Tertiary level for Technical Education and was instrumental in establishing Creation Research in Australia. John has lectured and done research in USA, UK, Europe, Canada, The Caribbean, New Zealand, Australia and Asia on the evidence for Creation and Noah’s Flood. Such experience has given him a practical breadth of knowledge of the overwhelming evidence against evolution.
His vast knowledge on various creation topics has been heard in his international talks, his range of DVDs and his published works for both children and adults.
John is the founding director of Creation Research and continues to present and record his extensive knowledge in presentations, books and DVDs. John has lead fossil field trips and dinosaur digs around the planet, collecting world-class fossils for display in various Creation Museums around the world. He established the Jurassic Ark museum at Bells Bridge, Queensland where visitors and students can excavate fossils, view dinosaurs and displays.
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