March 2023 Newsletter Story: Dr. Thomas Kindell

Dr. Thomas Kindell has been teaching biblical apologetics for over 35 years and has become a fine articulate lecturer on biomimicry as well. He has found great joy in his calling gifted to him by God and adores sharing his experience and knowledge with all manner of listeners and willing debaters.

Kindell was raised in a Catholic home but still largely believed in evolution, and considered the creation story of Genesis an elegant story but not entirely factual. Kindell especially enjoyed science and from a young age had the boyhood dream of digging up dinosaur bones. By the time he was deep in his high school career, he had considered the Bible to be full of scientifical and historical errors and considered himself a disgruntled agnostic.
A significant change occurred when Kindell’s sister personally found the Christian faith for herself, and Kindell observed the sudden and exemplary transformation right before his eyes. His sister gradually introduced more and more aspects of the Christian faith into his life, and finally, Kindell decided to go to a church service with his sister. Kindell recounts the experience as being perplexed by how happy everyone in the church seemed to be, and towards the end of the service, asking God for a sign that He was really there. Kindell didn’t hear audible words, but he felt that seeing the church so alive, and his sister being so happy, were signs in themselves. Kindell gave his life to God that night.

Right before Kindell enrolled in college he felt called to the ministry and so he attended a more Christianized education pursuit. One of the first unexpected things that he experienced was how his science professor said that real, true science agrees with the Bible more than Darwinism. During his college career, Kindell began to look more and more objectively at the theory of evolution and could only find a house of cards that fell apart all too easily. He also took a weekly trip held every year to a creation-course camp, learning a great deal about the arguments for creation and how it triumphs over most of evolution’s claims.

After taking care of his education, Kindell pursued his call to ministry and lectured for a number of years at the Oregon Design Science Association, during which, he met a current AzOSA speaker, Michael Cacanoo. Cacanoo had listened to one of Kindell’s lectures and approached him afterward to talk about it, the two men remembered each other going forward. Later on, Cacanoo moved to Arizona and got involved with AzOSA, Cacanoo had brought up Kindell’s name at several intervals and was able to offer Kindell another stage to teach on.

Kindell’s favorite part of teaching is how other people get excited about seeing what the Bible is really about, to share the truth of God’s word and see that people respond to it. Remarkably, Kindell states that he’s never run into a question in science that the Bible can’t answer, and vice-versa. He recalls one particular event where a Russian man came up to greet Kindell after one of his lectures, they conversed for a while and Kindell thought it appropriate to gift the man with a book titled Evolution on Trial (2016). The Russian man had read through the whole book in a single night and returned to Kindell the next morning with just one question: “What must I do to be saved?”

Though Kindell largely teaches on biomimetics, he finds the complexities of the subject to be rather simple to teach and show others. The basis of Kindell’s teaching on the subject is that the Creator God is the only thing that is uninvented, and everything else was invented by God, ergo, everything construction we find in science leads back to a mimicry of some sense from the Creator God.

Kindell seeks to inspire all who come and listen to know they don’t have to be intimidated by all the big data and charts of science that favor evolution. Because we are “standing on the shoulders of a giant” Kindell said. The Bible already communicates everything that is true and good, we are arguing the pre-determined winning side when we spread the truth about creation. Anything that discredits what the Bible says is a lie, and there is no reason to be scared of lies when you know the truth. And perhaps the greatest example of this truth, Kindell would say, is your very being. The human body, made in the perfect God’s image, whose tiniest cell dwarfs the most powerful supercomputer exceedingly. A belief in truth (creation) gives meaning and purpose to our lives, while a belief in a lie (evolution) gives a hollow feeling and a bleak outlook of death and being remembered.