Jerry Bergman is a multi-award-winning teacher and author. He has taught biology, biochemistry, anatomy and genetics, psychology, and other courses for over forty years at the University of Toledo Medical College, Bowling Green State University, and other colleges. His nine degrees include a doctorate from Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan. The 1,026 college credit hours he has earned is the equivalent to almost twenty master's degrees. His over 1,800 publications in both scholarly and popular science journals have been translated into thirteen languages including French, German, Italian, Spanish, Danish, Polish, Czech, Chinese, Arabic and Swedish. His books, and books that include chapters that he authored, are in over 2,400 college libraries in sixty-five countries. So far over 80,000 copies of the sixty books and monographs that he has authored or coauthored are in print. Bergman has spoken over 2,000 times to college, university, and church groups in America, Canada, Europe, the south Sea Islands, and Africa.