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Ergun Michael Caner (born 1966) is a prominent evangelical minister and a Professor and former Dean at the Baptist Theological Seminary and Graduate School at Liberty University. Caner has co-authored several books with his brother Emir, president of Truett-McConnell College, a Baptist school in Cleveland, Georgia.

Biography
Some facts concerning Dr. Caner's biography and background are highly controversial.

In an interview on the "Rick and Bubba" radio show, Caner said he came to America when he was 13 years old, knowing nothing of America except from Turkish broadcasts of American television shows and sports programming during the 1970s. He claimed he was still learning English when we accepted Christ during his senior year in high school. In other occasions Caner said he grew up in Turkey in a climate of "Islamic jihad", was trained as a terrorist and experimented a dramatic conversion to Christianity. His parents' divorce records show the family moved to Ohio in 1970, when Caner was 3 or 4, contradicting his account of teenage years as a Muslim extremist in Turkey.

Caner has been criticised for claiming he is a former devote Muslim or former trained terrorist. Critics pointed out mistakes a person purportedly raised up as a pious Muslim would not commit as long as some contradictory remarks about his place of birth and residence.

Caner has often claimed to speak Arabic and Turkish and some of his critics have stated that the phrases he presents as Arabic sentences do not resemble Arabic or any other identifiable language. James White, the director of Alpha and Omega Ministries, a Christian apologetics organization based in Phoenix, Arizona, analized some of the videos that where alleged as basis for this criticism, and concluded that Caner does not speak Arabic.

On 25th February 2010, Caner released a statement saying:

"For those times where I misspoke, said it wrong, scrambled words or was just outright confusing, I apologize and will strive to do better"

Some of the criticism concerning Caner's background is indirectly dealt with on his official web page.

On May 10, 2010, officials of Liberty University announced it would investigate reports that its seminary president had misled the public in his testimony about converting from militant Islam to Christianity. Chancellor Jerry Falwell, Jr. said: "Liberty does not initiate personnel evaluations based upon accusations from Internet blogs. However, In light of the fact that several newspapers have raised questions, we felt it necessary to initiate a formal inquiry." The ruling followed weeks of questions in the Baptist blogosphere about written descriptions of Caner's academic credentials and apparent embellishments in recorded versions of his testimony, preached in prominent Baptist pulpits over the years

On June 25, 2010, the Liberty University announced that it found that Caner had made "factual statements that are self-contradictory" concerning "dates, names and places of residence", and that he would no longer serve as Dean of Liberty Baptist Theological Seminary after the contractual term expiration on June, 30, 2010. Dr. Caner remains on the faculty of Liberty Baptist Theological Seminary as a professor.