Barbara Forrest is a noted secular humanist and a professor of philosophy at Southeastern Louisiana University in Hammond, La., and co-author of Creationism’s Trojan Horse: The Wedge of Intelligent Design. (Read the first chapter, posted at TalkReason.org.) She says the debate over intelligent design and evolution is necessarily a religious, and not a scientific one because intelligent design is a religious, not a scientific, belief. She continues that because intelligent design is an essentially religious viewpoint, it therefore draws in constitutional questions relating to the separation of church and state, making it a legal debate as well.
| Website | http://www.selu.edu/acad_research/depts/hist_ps/faculty/bio/forrest.html |
| Email address | bforrest@selu.edu |
| Phone number | 985-549-5097 |
| Categories | Beliefs & practices, Church & state, education, Government & politics, Law & courts, Science & health |
| Locations | Louisiana, United States of America |
| Faiths | Atheism/Agnosticism |
| Languages | English |