A December 2010 Gallup Poll showed that four in 10 Americans believe in creationism — that God created humans in their present form — while more than half believe in evolution in some form.

Read a Dec. 7, 2010, article from ABC news about the Ark Encounter, a $150 million biblical theme park recreating the story of Noah’s Ark as reconstructed from a literal reading of the book of Genesis.

Leslie Wickman is the executive director of the American Scientific Affiliation, a group of Christian scientists working to improve the dialogue between science and religion. She is also a professor of engineering at California Baptist University.

Dr. Robert Eckel is a professor of medicine at the University of Colorado’s Health Sciences Center in Denver.

Kevin Anderson is director of the Van Andel Creation Research Center, an extension of the Creation Research Society, in Chino Valley, Ariz.

David Buchanan is an associate dean for academic programs, and animal sciences professor and geneticist, at North Dakota State University in Fargo, S.D.

Walter Bradley is a former engineering professor at Baylor University in Waco, Texas, and an advocate of creationism and intelligent design.

Raymond Bohlin is a biologist and vice president of vision outreach with Probe Ministries of Richardson, Texas. He is the co-author of The Natural Limits to Biological Change. He is listed as a creation scientist by the Institute for Creation Research.

S. Brian Stratton is the chairman of the religious studies program and a professor of religious studies and philosophy at Alma College in Alma, Mich. He has been affiliated with the Metanexus Institute.