Oklahomans for Excellence in Science Education is a nonprofit educational organization that promotes the education of the public about the methods and values of science and advocates excellence in the science curriculum. It was organized in 1999 when the Oklahoma State Board of Education required that stickers disclaiming the theory of evolution be inserted in […]

The Creation Truth Foundation in Noble, Okla., promotes the Genesis story of creation. George Thomas Sharp is its founder and president.

Salwa Khoddam, a professor of English at Oklahoma City University, is a past president and founder of the C.S. Lewis & Inklings Society. She has published several articles about The Chronicles of Narnia and wrote a book about Lewis’ use, in his fiction, of verbal images that point to the divine.

The C.S. Lewis & Inklings Society is based at Oklahoma City University. Dr. Salwa Khoddam is president.

Herbert Cooper is senior pastor of People’s Church in Oklahoma City. This Assemblies of God congregation, started in 2002, draws about 1,400 people to worship on a weekend – about half black, about 40 percent white. Contact through the website.

Mark Hitchcock is pastor of Faith Bible Church in Edmond, Okla. He is the author of Could the Rapture Happen Today?

Pamala Kennedy is co-author with her husband, Richard, of Suffering in Slow Motion: Help for A Long Journey Through Dementia and Other Terminal Illnesses (Regal Books, 2003). Richard, pastor of a nondenominational church, was diagnosed with fronto-temporal dementia in 1997.

Christopher Thrutchley is a lawyer in Tulsa, Okla., who has written a paper titled “Eroding Biblical Foundation, Exploding Judicial Activism,” about what he sees as the erosion that teaching evolution has had on the nation’s laws.

Victor H. Hutchison is a professor emeritus of zoology at the University of Oklahoma in Norman. He is an expert on evolution and the creationism-evolution debate.