Niall Shanks

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.

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Barbara Forrest

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 […]

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Ben Bridges Sr.

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.

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Michael Ruse

Michael Ruse is a professor of philosophy at Florida State University in Tallahassee and author of Can a Darwinian be a Christian? The Relationship Between Science and Religion. He says evolution belongs in the science classroom while intelligent design can be taken up in the context of current affairs or history. In his book The Evolution-Creation […]

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John Angus Campbell

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.

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Ron Sala

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.’”

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John Jefferson Davis

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.”

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