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Paul Chien

Paul Chien is a professor emeritus of biology at the University of San Francisco, a Jesuit university, and a senior fellow at the Discovery Institute’s Center for Science and Culture.

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Walt Brown

Walt Brown is director of the Center for Scientific Creation, based in Phoenix, Ariz., and was part of a 1998 panel that advised the local board of education on science standards and evolution. He has said he does not endorse the teaching of religion in public schools but is critical of the state’s science standards because, […]

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Michael Zimmerman

Michael Zimmerman is vice-president for academic affairs and provost at Evergreen State College in Olympia, Wash. and founder and director of the Clergy Letter Project. In 2004, he organized a letter-writing effort among Wisconsin clergy to ask Grantsburg, Wis., school officials to keep evolution at the center of the district’s science education. The district had earlier […]

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Taner Edis

Taner Edis is a professor of physics at Truman State University in Kirksville, Mo., who studies issues of science and religion, particularly Islam. He is the author of An Illusion of Harmony: Science and Religion in Islam and co-editor of Why Intelligent Design Fails: A Scientific Critique of the New Creationism.

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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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