Veerabhadran Ramanathan is a distinguished professor of atmospheric and climate sciences at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California, San Diego, and an “ordinary academician” at the Pontifical Academy of Sciences in Rome. His work is expected to have contributed to Pope Francis’ encyclical.

Katharine Hayhoe is a professor of political science and co-director of the Climate Science Center at Texas Tech University. She is also the co-author of A Climate for Change: Global Warming Facts for Faith-Based Decisions. Hayhoe is an expert on Christian responses to global warming, and she works to reconcile science and faith in Christian communities.

Michael Austin is a communications consultant and Christian commentator. He is the spokesman for the Christian History Institute. Austin can discuss evolution-creationism debates, Christian persecution and the history of church-state relations. He lives in New York City.

Read a Feb. 19, 2009, article from Psychology Today about the appeal of polygamy from an evolutionary psychology perspective.

The Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life provides a resource page on issues relating to religion and public schools, such as the evolution debate.

Stephen Law is a philosopher and senior lecturer at Heythrop College at the University of London. He is the editor of the Royal Institute of Philosophy’s journal Think. His interests include relevance of philosophy; philosophy and religion; philosophy and children; moral education and creationism versus evolution. He is a member of the Humanist Philosophers Group, […]

John Dupré is a professor of philosophy of science at the University of Exeter. He has worked on a wide variety of biological issues of interest to philosophy including the nature of species, organisms, and genes and the implications of evolutionary theory. He is the author of Darwin’s Legacy: What Evolution Means Today (Oxford, 2003) and […]

Read the Secular Coalition for America’s scorecard on the 2012 presidential candidates; most fared poorly in the group’s judgment on matters of church-state separation, evolution and the like.

Elliot Aronson is emeritus professor of psychology at University of California, Santa Cruz, and author of Nobody Left to Hate: Teaching Compassion After Columbine.