Ben McFarland (PhD University of Washington) is Professor of Biochemistry at Seattle Pacific University. His publications include A World from Dust: How the Periodic Table Shaped Life (Oxford University Press, 2016), a chapter in Faith Seeking Understanding: Essays in Memory of Paul Brand and Ralph Winter (William Carey, 2012), the 2010 Weter Award Lecture at SPU and he has also published peer-reviewed biochemistry research in protein design and structural immunology.