Education
He studied paleontology in Dallas.
He studied paleontology in Dallas.
He says as a child he never saw himself as one, however, because he did not know enough about it or other religions to make a responsible choice about what to believe. Aron Ra has advocated for the inclusion of evolution in the Texas Science Textbook hearing. Together with Dillahunty and Seth Andrews, he held the Unholy Trinity Tour in the United States in 2014, which they took to Australia in 2015.
In April and May 2015, Aron Ra traveled across Europe and spoke at several events including quod erat demonstrandum: Question, Explore, Discover in Manchester, England, at De Vrije Gedachte in Utrecht, the Netherlands, and at Skepsis Norge in Oslo, Norway.
In 2015, they moved to the blogging network Patheos. He supports his activism through Patreon, which he has also used to start up the Phylogeny Explorer Project, the database design of which was done by Adrian Jerome Wright.
Aron Ra has a son. He met Lilandra on the discussion board Christian Forums, where Aron challenged creationists that if he "could prove to their satisfaction that evolution is essentially true, they would become an evolutionist." Lilandra accepted the challenge, and arranged a debate between Aron and a few Christian evolutionists on the one hand and several Christian creationists on the other, after which she accepted evolution.
Lilandra motivated Aron to become politically active as well. In 2009, Aron married Lilandra (who adopted "Ra" as her pseudonymous family name).