Mark Perakh is a professor emeritus of physics at California State University, Fullerton. He is author of Unintelligent Design (Prometheus Books, 2004).

John Schneeberger is with the Bitterroot Human Alliance in Hamilton, Mont., and advocated against the inclusion of intelligent design in Darby public schools.

Matt Young is co-author of Why Intelligent Design Fails: A Scientific Critique of the New Creationism. He teaches physics at the Colorado School of Mines in Golden, Colo.

Niall Shanks was the author of “God, the Devil and Darwin: A Critique of Intelligent Design Theory” (Oxford University Press, 2004) and a professor of philosophy at East Tennessee State University.

The University of Tennessee in Knoxville held its annual Darwin Day celebration on Feb. 9 and 10, 2005.

Ben Bridges Sr. is a Republican in the Georgia House of Representatives who introduced HB 179 in January 2005; it would require the teaching of critiques of and alternatives to evolution wherever evolution is taught.

John Angus Campbell is a retired professor of rhetoric at the University of Memphis and a fellow at the Discovery Institute and of the International Society for Complexity, Information and Design, a society dedicated to the promotion of intelligent design. He is co-editor of Darwinism, Design and Public Education.

Ron Sala is a Unitarian Universalist minister at the Unitarian Universalist Society in Stamford, Conn. On the Sunday before Darwin Day 2005 he preached a sermon titled “The Case For and Against ‘Intelligent Design.’”

John Jefferson Davis is a professor of systematic theology and Christian ethics at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary in South Hamilton, Mass. He has expertise in world religions, theology, homosexuality, abortion, medical ethics, just war, bioethics, environmental ethics, intelligent design, business ethics and biblical ethics. He teaches a course titled “Christian Ethics: Issues Facing the Church Today.”