Ryan M. Bebej, Ph.D.

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Posing behind a giant tortoise (Santa Cruz, Galápagos Islands, January 2018)


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Online Presentations

Remarkable tales of walking whales: assessing locomotion in early cetaceans, presented in the Natural Science Seminar at Spring Arbor University (Spring Arbor, MI), recorded May 14, 2025.

Remarkable tales of walking whales: the origin and early evolution of cetaceans, presented as the keynote address for the 19th Annual Erickson Conference, Seattle Pacific University (Seattle, WA), recorded May 7, 2021.

It's all in the hips: vestiges of a whale's ancient history, presented for the Whale Articulation Project: Knowing Whales, Part 1, Seattle Pacific University (Seattle, WA), recorded August 24, 2020.

Exploring evolution: the intersection of faith and science, presented at the Christian Educators Association Convention (South Bend, IN), recorded October 23, 2015.

The Tale of the Whale: An Ideal Case Study for Introducing the Evidence for Evolution, presented at the BioLogos Evolution and Christian Faith Conference (Grand Rapids, MI), recorded July 1, 2015 (also available via SoundCloud).

Perspectives of a Reformed paleontologist, Session 3: Final thoughts, presented to an adult education class at Fairway Christian Reformed Church (Jenison, MI), recorded Septmber 2014.

Perspectives of a Reformed paleontologist, Session 2: The intersection of science and faith, presented to an adult education class at Fairway Christian Reformed Church (Jenison, MI), recorded Septmber 2014.

Perspectives of a Reformed paleontologist, Session 1: My journey, presented to an adult education class at Fairway Christian Reformed Church (Jenison, MI), recorded Septmber 2014.


Podcast Appearances

Evolution of whales, interview with GR Davidson for The Seven Series podcast, published February 15, 2025.

Extinction: will there be wild things out there?, interview with JB Stump and C Hoogerwerf for the BioLogos Foundation's Language of God podcast. Also featuring S Brusatte, R Copeland, K Harper, M Miller, S Pimm, S Roels, J Schloss, D Gonzalez-Socoloske, and B Sollereder, published September 5, 2024.

The gift of food: the science of food, interview with JB Stump and C Hoogerwerf for the BioLogos Foundation's Language of God podcast. Also featuring A Al-Attas Bradford, B Bradley Hagerty, M Dus, J Holmes Curran, and N Wirzba, published February 1, 2024.

Uniquely unique: biology, interview with JB Stump and C Hoogerwerf for the BioLogos Foundation's Language of God podcast. Also featuring P Sethupathy, CM Wall-Scheffler, and R Branco, published July 29, 2021.

Fossils: a window to God's creation, interview with C Hoogerwerf for the BioLogos Foundation's Language of God podcast. Also featuring RF Stearley and CM Wall-Scheffler, published September 12, 2019.

Cool creation, interview with N Mulder and JB Stump for the BioLogos Foundation's Language of God podcast. Also featuring R Lindroth, J Schloss, P Sethupathy, and K Vosburg, published June 20, 2019.

Faculty's role in the recruitment process, interview with Helix Education's E Olsen for the Enrollment Growth University podcast, published December 11, 2017.


Online Articles

Are dinosaurs extinct? Modern birds connect us to our ancient past, BioLogos Foundation, published June 22, 2022.

Evolutionary theodicies, humility, and hope, Christian Scholars Review, published January 31, 2022.

A sea of gifts: caring for marine creatures, BioLogos Foundation, published March 8, 2021.

Defending the tale of the whale, BioLogos Foundation, published September 4, 2020.

Biological death: part of God's "good" creation?, BioLogos Foundation, published June 5, 2019.

My favorite fossil: Maiacetus inuus, BioLogos Foundation, published November 13, 2018.

From young-earth creationist to whale evolution expert: my story, BioLogos Foundation, published February 6, 2018.

A whale of an argument, BioLogos Foundation, published December 21, 2017.

Celebrating 10 years of The Language of God, Think Christian, published December 19, 2016.

Scientists find evidence of fossilized dinosaur brains, BioLogos Foundation, published November 15, 2016.

My journey from opposing evolution to studying it, An Evangelical Dialogue on Evolution, published October 2009.

Inia geoffrensis, University of Michigan Museum of Zoology, Animal Diversity Web, published April 2006.


Online Press

The tiny, 8-foot long whale swam off Egypt's coast 41 million years ago, by J Solis-Moereira, Popular Science, published August 14, 2023.

A whale of a tail, by L Reid, Nature Middle East, published December 11, 2019.

Mr. Darwin's Tree comes to Calvin, by C Meehan, Christian Reformed Church Communications, published September 10, 2019.

'Pointless' bones, 'flawed' birth spacing, and 'broken' genes, by L Huska, Christianity Today, published March 28, 2019.

2017 in review: advances in marine mammal paleontology, by RW Boessenecker, The Coastal Paleontologist, published January 13, 2018.

Philip Yancey: meeting God through the marvels of nature, by C Meehan, Christian Reformed Church in North America, published October 11, 2017.

2016 in review: advances in marine mammal paleontology, by RW Boessenecker, The Coastal Paleontologist, published January 12, 2017.

The best known fossil pinniped, part 3: life habits, paleoecology, and biogeography of Allodesmus, by RW Boessenecker, The Coastal Paleontologist, published June 5, 2014.

A whale of a tale (PDF), by P de Haan, The Calvin Spark, published Fall 2013.

Running with Arenahippus, by R Black, Wired, published October 2010.

Valley of the Whales, by T Mueller, National Geographic, published August 2010.


Calvin University

Department of Biology

School of STEM

School of Health

Ecosystem Preserve

Christian Perspectives in Science Seminar Series


University of Michigan

Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Museum of Paleontology

Museum of Zoology

Museum of Natural History

Animal Diversity Web

UMORF: Online Repository of Fossils


Miscellaneous

BioLogos Foundation

BioLogos Voices

American Scientific Affiliation

Scholarship and Christianity in Oxford

Society of Vertebrate Paleontology



Ryan M Bebej, PhD
Professor of Biology
Calvin University
ryan.bebej@calvin.edu

Last updated June 20, 2025