J. Budziszewski is a professor of government and philosophy at the University of Texas at Austin and a fellow at the Discovery Institute’s Center for Science and Culture. He is the author of Evangelicals in the Public Square: Four Formative Voices on Political Thought and Action, in which he suggests that evangelicals could enhance their political clout […]

Raymond Arthur Eve is a professor of sociology at the University of Texas at Arlington. He classifies the debate as more political than religious and has data to show that people’s attitudes toward intelligent design and other manifestations of creationism are strongly predicted by other social attitudes they hold, such as attitudes toward gays, prayer […]

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.

Barbara Forrest is a noted secular humanist and a professor of philosophy at Southeastern Louisiana University in Hammond, La., and co-author of Creationism’s Trojan Horse: The Wedge of Intelligent Design. (Read the first chapter, posted at TalkReason.org.) She says the debate over intelligent design and evolution is necessarily a religious, and not a scientific one because intelligent […]

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

Ben Bridges Sr. is a Republican in the Georgia House of Representatives who introduced HB 179 in January 2005; it would require the teaching of critiques of and alternatives to evolution wherever evolution is taught.

Michael Ruse is a professor of philosophy at Florida State University in Tallahassee and author of Can a Darwinian be a Christian? The Relationship Between Science and Religion. He says evolution belongs in the science classroom while intelligent design can be taken up in the context of current affairs or history. In his book The Evolution-Creation […]

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.

Ron Sala is a Unitarian Universalist minister at the Unitarian Universalist Society in Stamford, Conn. On the Sunday before Darwin Day 2005 he preached a sermon titled “The Case For and Against ‘Intelligent Design.’”