Written by Darrel W. Ray. Ray discusses the power and danger of religion.

Daniel S. Goldberg is a faculty member at the Department of Bioethics & Interdisciplinary Studies at East Carolina University in Greenville, N.C. His research interests include clinical ethics as well as ethical issues in clinical and pharmaceutical research.

Written by Martin D. Jaffe, M.D. Jaffe uses the principle that the quest for security underlies all of evolutionary biology and psychology to ultimately establish proof against the existence of God.

Written by Sam Harris. Harris argues that human morality is determined by scientific principles.

Dr. David Doukas is a faculty member in the Institute for Bioethics, Health Policy and Law, and he holds the William Ray Moore Endowed Chair of Family Medicine and Medical Humanism at the University of Louisville. He is a co-author of Planning for Uncertainty: Living Wills and Other Advance Directives for You and Your Family.

Kenneth W. Goodman is a professor of medicine at the University of Miami and the founder and director of the University of Miami Bioethics Program and its Pan American Bioethics Initiative. He is also the co-director of the university’s Ethics Programs.

Lars Noah is a law professor at the Fred G. Levin College of Law of the University of Florida in Gainesville and author of Law, Medicine and Medical Technology: Cases and Materials, 2nd ed. (Foundation Press, 2006).

Lewis Grossman is a professor at Washington College of Law at American University in Washington, D.C., and co-author of Food and Drug Law: Cases and Materials, 3rd ed. (Foundation Press, 2007). His interests include civil procedure, food and drug law and legal history. He is of counsel at the law firm of Covington & Burling.

Frances Miller is a professor of law emerita at Boston University School of Law. Her interests include health law, food and drug law, biotechnology and genetics, comparative health systems, competition vs. regulation in health care and trusts and estates.