The Center on Race, Religion and Urban Life at Rice University in Houston, Tex. conducts research and supports education on race, religion and society.

The Center for Race and Gender at the University of California, in Berkeley, Calif. is a research facility that studies the intersection of race and gender in society.

The Center for the Study of Race and Race Relations at the University of Florida Levin College of Law in Gainesville, Fla. works to de-stigmatize race by educating and encouraging studies and discussions on the topic. Contact director Katheryn Russell-Brown.

The Center for the Study of Religion and Culture at Vanderbilt Divinity School in Nashville, Tenn. works to develop, promote and increase faculty research on the relationship between religion and culture.

Robert Pollack is a professor of biological sciences at Columbia University in New York City. He is the author of The Faith of Biology & the Biology of Faith and was part of an online panel that discussed the conflict between religion and evolution for the PBS series Evolution.

Thomas Nagel is a professor of law and philosophy at New York University who has written a paper describing the constitutionality of “mentioning” intelligent design in science classes. He has described himself as an atheist.

The Rev. George Coyne is a Jesuit priest and director emeritus of the Vatican Observatory in Tucson, Ariz., which he led for more than 25 years. He presented a lecture titled “The Dance of the Fertile Universe: Evolution or Intelligent Design?” at the Houston Museum of Science in 2009. He is an expert on the religious implications of evolution.

Denis Alexander is the emeritus director of the Faraday Institute for Science and Religion at Cambridge University in Cambridge, England. He is the author of Creation or Evolution: Do We Have to Choose?, a discussion of Christianity and evolution.

Jonathan Witt is the author of Traipsing Into Evolution: Intelligent Design and the Kitzmiller v. Dover Decision and a senior fellow at the Discovery Institute in Seattle. He maintains multiple blogs, including one on the future of intelligent design.