Barry Robert Bickmore is a professor in the department of geological sciences at Brigham Young University

Brigham Young University

Brigham Young University is a private university located in Provo, Utah. It is owned and operated by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints , and is the United States' largest religious university and third-largest private university.Approximately 98% of the university's 34,000 students...

 (BYU). He is also a Mormon

Mormon

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 apologist

Mormon apologetics

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, having written Restoring the Ancient Church: Joseph Smith and Early Christianity (Ben Lomond: FAIR, 1999) as well as several articles that have been published in the FARMS Review.

Bickmore was born in Redwood City, California

Redwood City, California

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 and raised in California and Utah. He served as a missionary

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 for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) in Iowa. He obtained a degree in geology with minors in philosophy and chemistry from BYU. He then received a Ph.D. in geochemistry from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

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, where his advisor was Michael F. Hochella. He then was a postdoctoral research assistant at the University of Colorado

University of Colorado at Boulder

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 for about a year and a half prior to joining the BYU faculty in August of 2001.

Bickmore is married to the former Keiko Ann Guay and they are the parents of three children.

Among other callings in the LDS Church, Bickmore has served as a seminary teacher.

In geochemistry and related fields, Bickmore has focused on the study of low-temperature geochemical reactions and the development of geoscience curricula as part of the curriculum of elementary education majors.

Sources

• "About the Author" entry with Restoring the Ancient Church.
• FARMS bio
• BYU faculty bio
• Bickmore's blog, Anti-Climate Change Extremism in Utah
• Scientific commons entry
• Mineralogical study with Bickmore as the lead author
• another brief bio