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Michael
J. Behe is Professor of Biological Sciences
and the author of Darwin’s Black Box: The
Biochemical Challenge to Evolution (The
Free Press, 1996). Darwin’s Black Box discusses
the implications for Neo-Darwinism of what
Dr. Behe calls "irreducibly complex" biochemical
systems. It went through twelve printings before
being issued in paperback, and has been cited
and reviewed internationally in over one hundred
publications, and was recently named by National
Review and World magazine as one of the one
hundred most important books of the 20th century.
Dr. Behe’s current research involves delineation
of design and natural selection in discrete
subsystems of DNA replication. In addition
to publishing over 35 articles in refereed
biochemical journals Dr. Behe has also written
editorial features in The New York Times, Boston
Review, the American Spectator and National
Review and has presented and debated his work
at various conferences, including at the State
University of New York, Stony Brook, the University
of Notre Dame, Princeton University, University
of Massachusetts at Amherst and Cambridge University.
Besides many radio and television interviews,
in 1997, he was featured on two episodes of
the PBS program Technopolitics.
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John
is a Managing Director of Intelligent Design
network, inc. and a retired member of Lathrop & Gage
L.C., where he practiced law for 32 years
in the areas of corporate finance, mergers
and acquisitions and business litigation.
He received his first degree in Geology and
has practiced geology in a number of legal
engagements involving mining and the oil
and gas industry and has studied structural
geology and paleontology as he has traveled
throughout the world. He has been actively
involved in the debate in Kansas, Ohio, Georgia,
and West Virginia over the definition of
science and the content of Science Education
Standards, , and has provided advice and
counsel to school boards, school administrators
and science teachers regarding the teaching
of origins science. He is the co-author of Teaching
Origins Science in Public Schools (with
William S. Harris, Ph.D.), The Rule (with
Daniel Schwabauer) and an article to
be published in The National Catholic
Bioethics Quarterly, Autumn, 2003: Intelligent
Design: The Scientific Alternative to Evolution. He
is a member of the American Bar Association
and Missouri Bar Association and has been
admitted to practice in Federal and state
courts.
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Jack
Cashill is the Executive Editor of Ingram's
Magazine, the author of First Strike: John
Brown's Body, How one man's death saved
the Clinton presidency and Hillary's
future; TWA Flight 800 and the Attack
on America, 2006:The Chautauqua Rising and
is a Director of Intelligent Design network,
inc. He is the producer of the videos: The
Triumph of Design and the Demise of Darwin,
I Was A Teenage Darwinist, and Silenced:
Flight 800 and the Subversion of Justice.
He is a frequent host of talk radio and
media director and speech writer for
numerous political campaigns.
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William
Dembski is an Associate Research
Professor, Baylor University; Senior
Fellow, Discovery Institute; Executive
Director for the International Society
for Complexity, Information and Design. He
has a PhD in math from the University
of Chicago, a PhD in Philosophy from
the University of Illinois and an
MDiv from Princeton Theological Seminary. Dr.
Dembski has published articles in
mathematics, philosophy and theology
journals and is the author/editor
of seven books including The Design
Inference: Eliminating Chance Through
Small Probabilities, No Free Lunch:
Why Specified Complexity Cannot Be
Purchased without intelligence, and Intelligent
Design: The Bridge Between Science
and Philosophy. His most recent
books are The Design Revolution,
Uncommon Dissent, and Debating Design:
From Darwin to DNA (co-edited with
Michael Ruse)."
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David K. DeWolf, JD
David K. DeWolf is a Professor of Law at Gonzaga School of Law in Spokane, Washington. A graduate of Stanford University and Yale Law School, Professor DeWolf has clerked for the Honorable Stephen Bistline of the Idaho Supreme Court. In addition to his teaching responsibilities, Professor DeWolf is a Fellow at the Discovery Institute in Seattle, which advocates for the teaching of intelligent design in the schools. He has written a briefing book for public school administrators, Teaching the Controversy: Darwinism, Design and the Public School Curriculum
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Dr. Gonzalez is an Assistant Research Professor of Astronomy, Iowa State University, having received his PhD in Astronomy from the University of Washington. He is Co-Author, with Jay W. Richards, of The Privileged Planet: How our place in the cosmos is designed for discovery. Dr. Gonzalez has extensive experience in observing and analyzing data from ground-based observatories, including work at McDonald Observatory, Apache Point Observatory and Cerro Tololo Interamerican Observatory. He has published over 60 articles in refereed astronomy and astrophysical journals, including Astronomy and Astrophysics, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Astrophysical Journal and Solar Physics . His current research interest in astrobiology focuses on the "Galactic Habitable Zone" and captured the October 2001 cover story of Scientific American.
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Dr.
Harris holds
an endowed Chair
in Metabolism and
Vascular Biology
and is a Professor
of Medicine, University
of Missouri - Kansas
City. He is also
Director of the Lipoprotein
Research Laboratory
at Saint Luke’s Hospital
and is a Managing
Director of Intelligent
Design network, inc.
He has a PhD in Nutritional
Biochemistry from
the University of
Minnesota and has
been conducting scientific
research for the
last 20 years and
has published over
70 scientific papers.
He is the co-author
of Teaching Origins
Science in Public
Schools (with
John Calvert, J.D.)
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Michael
Newton
Keas
earned
a Ph.D.
in history
of science
in 1992
from
the University
of Oklahoma
after
undergraduate
work
in the
physical
and life
sciences
(B.S.,
biology).
He experienced
some
of the
last
historic
moments
behind
the Berlin
wall
as a
Fulbright
scholar
in East
Germany.
He is
Associate
Professor
of Natural
Science
at Oklahoma
Baptist
University
where
he is
co-authoring
a planetarium
show
series
entitled Cosmology
and Cultures (funded
by the
American
Council
of Learned
Societies).
He has
contributed
articles
to several
scholarly
anthologies
and journals,
including
the American
Chemical
Society's
Nobel
Laureates
in Chemistry (1901-1992).
As a
Senior
Fellow
of Discovery
Institute
he co-authors
supplementary
high
school
and college
curriculum
that
examines
cosmological
and biological
origins.
His first
curricular
publication
is forthcoming
in 2005: The
Cambrian
Explosion:
Biology's
Big Bang,
CD-ROM
(PowerPoint
and lesson
plans)
co-authored
with
Stephen
C. Meyer
and Jonathan
Moneymaker.
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Paul
A.
Nelson
received
his
Ph.D.
from
the
University
of
Chicago
in
Philosophy
(1998),
and
is
currently
a
Senior
Fellow
of
the
Center
for
Science
and
Culture
of
the
Discovery
Institute
(Seattle,
WA).
He
has
published
articles
in
such
journals
as
Biology & Philosophy,
Zygon,
Rhetoric
and
Public
Affairs,
and
Touchstone,
and
chapters
in
the
anthologies
Mere
Creation
(Intervarsity
Press),
Signs
of
Intelligence
(Brazos
Press),
Intelligent
Design
Creationism
and
Its
Critics
(MIT
Press),
and
Darwin,
Design,
and
Public
Education
(Michigan
State
University
Press).
His
forthcoming
monograph,
On
Common
Descent,
critically
evaluates
the
theory
of
common
descent.
Dr.
Nelson’s
research
interests
include
the
relationship
between
development
biology
and
our
knowledge
of
the
history
of
life,
the
theory
of
intelligent
design,
and
the
interaction
of
theology
and
science.
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Dr.
Rana has a PhD in Chemistry
from Ohio University and is
Vice President of Science Apologetics,
Reasons to Believe. He
is the two time winner of the
Don Clippinger Research Award
at Ohio University. Dr.
Rana has published more than
15 journal articles, is the
co-author (with Hugh Ross)
of Origins
of Life (Nav
Press) and has co-authored
a chapter in Biological
and Synthetic Membra. His
research interests are in biochemistry
and the origins of life. Dr.
Rana has spoken at numerous
scientific events, universities,
business forums, courtrooms
and on radio and television.
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Jay
Wesley
Richards,
PhD
Dr. Richards has a PhD in Philosophy and Theology from Princeton Theological
Seminary and a ThM from Calvin Theological Seminary. He is the co-author,
with Guillermo Gonzalez, of the book The Privileged Planet: How our place
in the cosmos is designed for discoveryand is the editor and contributor,
with William A. Dembski, of Unapologetic Apologetics: Meeting the Challenges
of Theological Studies, and editor and contributor, with George Gilder, of Are
We Spiritual Machines?: Ray Kurzweil vs. the Critics of Strong AI. He
is also author of The Untamed God: A Philosophical Exploration of Divine Perfection, Immutability, and Simplicity.
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John
Bracht, M.S. is
a graduate of New Mexico Tech and is currently
pursuing his Ph.D studies in biology at the University
of California, San Diego, where he studies microRNA
biogenesis and function. In addition to being
a founding member of the International Society
for Complexity, Information, and Design (ISCID),
John has written articles and commentary on intelligent
design for the ISCID journal Progress
in Complexity, Information, and Design,
the online science/religion forum Metanexus,
the American Scientific Affilitation journal Perspectives, and
the Santa Fe Institute journal Complexity. |
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Rick
Cole, M.S. is a seasoned and highly
respected high school science teacher who is
familiar with the realities of teaching origins
science in public education and offers perspectives
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Harold
Delaney, PhD (University of North Carolina,
1975) is a Professor of Psychology at the University
of New Mexico. A specialist in research methodology,
he is the co-author of a graduate text Designing Experiments and Analyzing Data: A Model Comparison Perspective (2nd ed., 2004) and
the co-editor of Judeo-Christian Perspectives
on Psychology: Human Nature, Motivation, and
Change (2005). He was elected twice to UNM's Academic Freedom and Tenure Committee and served as chair of the AF&T Committee from 1998 to 2000. |
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Mike
Edenburn, MS (MS in Mechanical Engineering,UniversityofMinnesota) has worked for 35 years as an analyst in a variety of fields including energy policy and national security at Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, NM. His work as an analyst requires him to separate fact from fiction, a good background for exploring the issues related to origins. He has also been active in his local school district, serving on a number of academic committees and as a varsity soccer coach.
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Rebecca
Keller, PhD PhD is a bio-physical chemist (PhD Biophysical Chemistry,
University of New Mexico 1992; Post-Doc Molecular Biology, University
of New Mexico 1994-1998; Post-Doc Molecular Biology, University of
California at Berkely, 1998-1999). She was a member of the Framework
Committee and Writing Team for revision of 2003 NM State Science Education
Standards, is the Author of Real Science-4-kids Science Curriculum
and President, Gravitas Publications, Inc. |
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Michael
Kent, PhD is a Research Scientist at Sandia National Laboratories. He received his PhD in chemical engineering from the University of Minnesota in 1990, and engaged in post doctoral research at the Curie Institute in Paris from 1990 to 1992. His research interests are focused on bacteria interactions with surfaces, protein and peptide interactions with lipid membranes.
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Casey
Luskin, MS has a B.S. and M.S.in Earth Sciences, from the University
of California at San Diego (2001). He has been a geological Researcher,
Scripps Institution for Oceanography (1997-2002) and is Co-President,
of "Intelligent Design and Evolution Awareness (IDEA) Center.
He is presently attending law school student at the University of
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Joseph
Renick, MS is the Executive Director, IDnet of New Mexico. He
Graduated in 1960 from Texas A&M with a BS in Aeronautical Engineering
and served nine years active duty with the USAF, accumulating 2300
hours flying time, including 1500 hours in the F-102A and F-104A.
He served an additional 17 years in the Air Force Reserves and retired
with the rank of Lt Col. He received his MS deg in Mechanical Engineering
from Arizona State University in 1971 and was immediately employed
by the Air Force Weapons Laboratory in Albuquerque, NM as a Mechanical
Engineer working in the area of nuclear weapon blast and shock effects
simulation. In 1991 he was assigned to the Defense Nuclear Agency
in Albuquerque where he was given responsibility for testing of advanced
weapons and tactics to improve our capability to defeat hardened
bunkers. He retired from the government as a GM-15 in 1993 and began
work with Logicon Research and Development Associates (now Northrop
Grumman) where he is currently employed. His position with Northrop
Grumman is Senior Research Scientist where he continues work in the
area of testing and evaluation of weapons, advanced weapon employment
tactics, and development of advanced weapons effects models. |
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Dave
Thomas, MS is a physicist and mathematician, employed at a small
high-tech testing firm in Albuquerque, NM. He received bachelor degrees
in mathematics and in physics, and a master of science in mathematics,
from the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, where he
was awarded the Brown Medal. Dave is President of the science group
New Mexicans for Science and Reason (http://www.nmsr.org), and also
is a Fellow of CSICOP (Committee for Scientific Investigation of
Claims of the Paranormal), the publishers of Skeptical Inquirer.
He has published several articles in Skeptical Inquirer on the Roswell
and Aztec UFO Incidents, as well as on the Bible Code. Dave has also
published in Scientific American (Dec. 1980 cover article), and has
several patents. He received the National Center for Science Education's
Friend of Darwin Award in 2000. Dave is married, and has two sons.
He enjoys playing bluegrass, and and performs juggling and magic
shows for elementary schools and other groups.
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Rev. Curtis L. Brickley, Jr. is the founder and Director of Power of One Ministries. Curtis formerly served our country as a soldier in the United States Marine Corps where he was recognized for his "high endeavor and superior accomplishment". He has been described as the "well-spoken minister" (New York Times) who "compels his listeners" and "speaks effectively to his audience" while he "stands in the gap" as "a leader in this new wave of bold proclaimers!" His love for God and all people has led him into the scientific arena, believing as did the Father of Modern Science and of the scientific method that, "a little science estranges a man from God, alot of science brings him back!" (Sir Francis Bacon)
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