Alan Hayward (1923–2008) was a British engineer and physicist who was also active as an old-earth Creationist writer, and Christadelphian.

Hayward's primary field of research was fluid density and flowmeters, writing a textbook on the subject, ^[1] and presenting to the Institute of Physics in 1981. ^[2]

As a Christadelphian lay preacher Hayward had commenced writing on general religious topics for the Christadelphian Auxiliary Lecturing Society during the early 1970s. In particular his booklet on the characteristic ( Socinian) belief of Christadelphians against the personal pre-existence of Christ remains that church's most widely circulated publication on that topic. ^[3] Other publications included The Real Devil against belief in supernatural evil. ^[4]

As a Christian, and a scientist, though not a biologist, he was soon involved in the subject of creation. ^[5] In New Scientist (11 March 1992 issue) Hayward is cited speaking of "the quiet majority of Bible-believing creationists" who accept the "evidence of physics and geology that the Universe and our planet are billions of years old". ^[6]

Despite being a nontrinitarian, Hayward's moderate^{[ citation needed]} old-earth creationist stand led to him being invited to write for mainstream publishers Thomas Nelson. He published three books: God is (1980) God's truth (1983) – a work dealing with textual defence of the Bible, and Creation and Evolution for SPCK (1985), which was widely cited ^[7] and was re-published in America by Bethany House, Minneapolis (1995). Hayward's old-earth views were not welcomed by young earth or flood geology creationists, and his nontrinitarian views were often pointed out in criticism. ^{[8] [9]} His three main books have since been reprinted in India. ^[10] God is was translated into German and Bengali, and God's Truth into Chinese.

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