Amy Welborn was a teacher of theology in Catholic high schools and is author of many books including De-coding Da Vinci: The Facts Behind the Fiction of The Da Vinci Code (Our Sunday Visitor, 2004), a Catholic response to the novel, and De-Coding Mary Magdalene: Truth, Legend and Lies (Our Sunday Visitor, 2006).

Esdras Betancourt is director of the Hispanic Ministries department of the Church of God, in Cleveland, Tenn.

The American Association for Laboratory Animal Science is based in Memphis, Tenn., and advances responsible laboratory animal care and use to benefit people.

Read “How the Mind Hurts and Heals the Body,” by Oakley Ray of Vanderbilt University.

The Rev. Billy Wilson runs World Impact, an evangelism television ministry based in Cleveland, Tenn.

The Journal of Pentecostal Theology is edited by faculty from the Pentecostal Theological Seminary in Cleveland, Tenn.

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.

The University of Tennessee in Knoxville held its annual Darwin Day celebration on Feb. 9 and 10, 2005.

John Angus Campbell is a retired professor of rhetoric at the University of Memphis and a fellow at the Discovery Institute and of the International Society for Complexity, Information and Design, a society dedicated to the promotion of intelligent design. He is co-editor of Darwinism, Design and Public Education.