Professor Ian Plimer

In fact, the Broken Hill ore body was found by a German.

That's a very different story.

And then I came back to Australia to be the Professor and Head of Earth Sciences at the University of Melbourne.

And in my department I had geology, geophysics and meteorology.

These same meteorologists, who I saved from extinction when the university wanted to close them down, are now climate scientists and they're some of my biggest critics, which is quite amusing.

And then after the University of Melbourne, I was given the opportunity to build a new department of mining engineering.

at the University of Adelaide.

I went from a tenured chair to an untenured chair.

It was just a challenge.

And I had the minerals industry supporting me, the South Australian government supporting me, the university.

And so I went there.

It was a challenge.

It was really quite an easy job because all I had to do was to raise a lot of money every year.

And with all my contacts in the minerals industry, that was easy.

And then when I finished up at the University of Adelaide, I went back into the minerals industry.

I now work as a director of Australia's biggest private company, that's Hancock Prospecting.

They have operations all the way around the world, very big iron ore producer, producer of gas.

And during my university time,

I got interested in creationism.

And these were people who claimed that the planet formed 6,000 years ago, that there was a global flood 4,000 years ago, and that all sedimentary rocks formed in this flood.