Read a column at CNN.com by Larry Alex Taunton, a Christian apologist and head of the Fixed Point Foundation who frequently debated Christopher Hitchens on religion. Taunton reflects on Hitchens’ death.

George L. Murphy is an ordained minister in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America and has a doctorate in physics. He can discuss theology and science. He lives in Tallmadge, Ohio.

Rudy Busto is an associate professor of religious studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. His specialties include race and religion in the United States, and Asian-American/Pacific Islander religions, Latino religion and evangelical Christianity.

Fumitaka Matsuoka is Robert Gordon Sproul Professor of Theology of Pacific School of Religion, Berkeley, Calif., where he is executive director of the Institute for Leadership Development and Study of Pacific and Asian North American Religion. He is an ordained minister in the Church of the Brethren. He co-edited Realizing the America of Our Hearts: Theological Voices of […]

Ed Gilbreath, who lives in the Chicago area, is editor of Today’s Christian magazine and editor at large for Christianity Today. He wrote Reconciliation Blues: A Black Evangelical’s Inside View of White Christianity and Gospel Trailblazer: An African-American Preacher’s Historic Journey Across Racial Lines.

The Rev. Michael Dowd is a minister in the evangelical/Pentecostal tradition who calls himself an “evolutionary creationist” preaching a “gospel of evolution.” Dowd says evolution can be reconciled with orthodox Christianity. He is an author and lecturer, and his 2009 book, Thank God for Evolution: How the Marriage of Science and Religion Will Transform Your Life and Our World, […]

Read an Aug. 9, 2011, NPR story about the efforts of Evangelicals to reconcile religious doctrine with science.

Read a March 30, 2012 story in Christianity Today about a symposium of evangelicals who endorse the evolutionary process as God’s means of creation.

A September 2011 survey by the Public Religion Research Institute, in partnership with Religion News Service, showed that a majority of Americans (57 percent) believe in evolution. But white evangelicals and Tea Party members — a core constituency for the GOP — are significantly less likely to believe in evolution.