Philip Stott was born in England in 1943. He gained B.Sc. and M.Sc degrees at Manchester University then lectured at universities in Nigeria and South Africa, carried out research in the analysis of geometrically non-linear structures and shared the Henry Adams award for outstanding research in 1969. While lecturing at the University of the Witwatersrand he studied Biology. After leaving Wits his ongoing interest in all aspects of science led to studies in Mathematics and Astronomy with the University of South Africa, and later to four years of part time research with the Applied Mathematics department of the University of the Orange Free State.After many years as a firm atheist he was converted to Christianity in 1976. Following several years of studying the conflicting claims of secular science and scripture he entered the Creation/Evolution debate  in 1989.  He gave lectures on the science/scripture controversy throughout South Africa and Namibia. In 1992 he was invited to address a conference in Russia and since then he has lectured, addressed conferences and taken part in debates in Eastern and Western Europe, America, Canada and Southern Africa. Venues have included  the European Centre for Nuclear Research (CERN), a UNESCO International Conference on the Teaching of Physics and the Russian Academy of Sciences.In 1976 he teamed up with Reformation International Theological Seminary, Florida and acted as visiting professor dealing with the interaction between scripture and science. He was awarded a Ph. D. for an analysis of Scriptural Inerrancy in light of Scientific Discovery in 2010.Philip Stott is married to Margaret (born LLoyd), has two children, Robert and Angela, and two grand children, Sean and Julie. He lives in Bloemfontein, South Africa.