Walt Brown is director of the Center for Scientific Creation, based in Phoenix, Ariz., and was part of a 1998 panel that advised the local board of education on science standards and evolution. He has said he does not endorse the teaching of religion in public schools but is critical of the state’s science standards because, […]

Michael Zimmerman is vice-president for academic affairs and provost at Evergreen State College in Olympia, Wash. and founder and director of the Clergy Letter Project. In 2004, he organized a letter-writing effort among Wisconsin clergy to ask Grantsburg, Wis., school officials to keep evolution at the center of the district’s science education. The district had earlier […]

Taner Edis is a professor of physics at Truman State University in Kirksville, Mo., who studies issues of science and religion, particularly Islam. He is the author of An Illusion of Harmony: Science and Religion in Islam and co-editor of Why Intelligent Design Fails: A Scientific Critique of the New Creationism.

Gayle Woloschak is a molecular biologist and a professor of radiology at Northwestern University in Evanston, Ill. She is director of “The Epic of Creation,” a lecture series that approaches the origins of the Earth through both scientific and religious perspectives, at the Zygon Center for Religion and Science at the Lutheran School of Theology in Chicago.

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.