Phillip Johnson is a retired professor of law at the University of California, Berkeley. After converting to Christianity, Johnson wrote two books on evolution and naturalistic philosophy for the general reader, one of which is Darwin on Trial, which is largely credited as founding the idea of intelligent design.

Alvin Plantinga is John A. O’Brien Professor of Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame. He is the author of “The Dawkins Confusion: Naturalism ad absurdum,” a review of Richard Dawkins’ The God Delusion, in the March/April 2007 issue of Books & Culture. Plantinga has written several articles about faith and science

The Faraday Institute at St. Edmund’s College, Cambridge, provides courses, seminars and lectures on the convergence of science and religion. Contact Eleanor Puttock, external communications officer.