Werner Gitt (born 22 February 1937) is a German

engineer Engineers, as practitioners of engineering, are professionals who invent, design, analyze, build and test machines, complex systems, structures, gadgets and materials to fulfill functional objectives and requirements while considering the l ...

and

young earth creationist Young Earth creationism (YEC) is a form of creationism which holds as a central tenet that the Earth and its lifeforms were created by supernatural acts of the Abrahamic God between approximately 6,000 and 10,000 years ago. In its most widespr ...

. Before retirement, he was Head of the Department of Information Technology at

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Biography

Gitt was born in

Stallupönen Nesterov (russian: Не́стеров), until 1938 known by its German name ( lt, Stalupėnai; pl, Stołupiany) and in 1938-1946 as Ebenrode, is a town and the administrative center of Nesterovsky District in Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia, located ...

East Prussia East Prussia ; german: Ostpreißen, label=Low Prussian; pl, Prusy Wschodnie; lt, Rytų Prūsija was a province of the Kingdom of Prussia from 1773 to 1829 and again from 1878 (with the Kingdom itself being part of the German Empire from 187 ...

. He became an engineering professor at the

, Germany's national institute for natural and engineering sciences. By the 1990s he was assuming a leadership role in the German creationist movement, through the publication of several influential creationist books. He was one of the leaders of the nondenominational ''Wort und Wissen'' (Word and Knowledge) society, the largest creationist society in Germany. He has written articles for a creationist apologetics web site.

Works

* 1992 ''Questions - that always get asked'' ''(Fragen - die immer wieder gestellt werden)'' () * 1993 ''Did God use Evolution?'' ''(Schuf Gott durch Evolution?)'' () * 1993 ''Signals from Space - Why are there Stars?'' ''(Signale aus dem All - Wozu gibt es Sterne?)'' () * 1994 ''If Animals Could Talk'' ''(Wenn Tiere reden könnten)'' () * 1997 ''In the Beginning was Information'' ''(Am Anfang war die Information)'' () * 1999 ''The Wonder of Man'' () * 2000 ''In the Beginning was the Big Bang?'' ''(Am Anfang war der Urknall?)'' () * 2001 ''Time And Eternity'' ''(Zeit und Ewigkeit)'' ()

References

Bibliography

External links

Werner Gitt's web site

Biography
from

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Information Theory and Creationism: Werner Gitt
at the

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