Richard D. Gardner is originally from Logan, Utah, but grew up in several states, mainly Hawaii. He has taught biology at Southern Virginia University since 2004. He earned a BA in biology from Utah State University (1991), a PhD in molecular and cellular biology (yeast genetics and cell cycle control) from the University of Arizona (1998), and did post-doctoral work in a similar field at the University of Virginia for six years prior to his current appointment. He served a mission in Curitiba, Brazil in the late 1980s. In addition to scientific publications, he is the author of five gospel related books, an Interpreter article on the law of consecration (2017) and was quoted extensively in a July 2016 New Era article on science and religion. Richard and his wife Naomi have six children (5 living).
