Mere Creation:
Reclaiming the Book of Nature
Conference on Design and Origins
Biola University, November 14-17, 1996
Mike Behe, Ph.D. (Biochemistry, University of Pennsylvania). Associate Professor in the Department of Biological Sciences at Lehigh University. Author of Darwin's Black Box: The Biochemical Challenge to Evolution (Free Press).
David Berlinsky, Ph.D. (Mathematics, Princeton University). Author of Black Mischief (Harcourt Brace) and A Tour of Calculus (Pantheon).
Walter Bradley, Ph.D. (Mechanical Engineering, University of Texas at Austin).Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Texas A&M University. Co-author of The Mystery of Life's Origin (Philosophical Library). Publishes and lectures on the origin of life. Author of over 100 publications in materials science.
William Lane Craig, Ph.D. (Philosophy, University of Birmingham), Ph.D. (Theology, University of Munich). Research professor at Talbot School of Theology. Author of numerous articles and books, including (with Quentin Smith) Theism, Atheism and Big Bang Cosmology (Oxford).
William Dembski, Ph.D. (Mathematics, University ofChicago), Ph.D. (Philosophy, University of Illinois at Chicago), M.Div. (Princeton Theological Seminary). Visiting Scholar at Notre Dame's Center for the Philosophy of Religion. Investigates the logical foundations of design.
Sigrid Hartwig-Scherer, Ph.D. (Physical Anthropology, University of Zurich). Research Fellow at the Institute for Anthropology and Human Genetics at the Ludwig-Maximilian University, Munich. Author of Ramapithecus--Vorfahr des Menschen? [Ramapithecus--Progenitor of Humans?] (Pascal Verlag).
Phillip Johnson, J.D. (University of Chicago). Jefferson Peyser Professor of Law at the University of California, Berkeley. Well-known speaker on the philosophical significance of Darwinism. Author of Darwin on Trial and Reason in the Balance. Author of two books and numerous journal articles on criminal law.
Robert Kaita, Ph.D. (Physics, Rutgers University). Principal Research Physicist, Plasma Physics Laboratory, Princeton University. Teaches in Princeton's Department of Astrophysical Sciences. Author of over 180 publications in nuclear and plasma physics.
Steven Meyer, Ph.D. (History and Philosophy of Science, Cambridge University). Associate Professor of Philosophy at Whitworth College. Senior Research Fellow at the Discovery Institute (Seattle). Investigates the nature of scientific rationality as it relates to design.
J. P. Moreland, Ph.D. (Philosophy, University of Southern California), Th.M. (Dallas Theological Seminary). Professor of Philosophy, Talbot School of Theology. Author and editor of numerous books, including Christianity and the Nature of Science (Baker) and The Creation Hypothesis (IVP).
Paul Nelson, Ph.D. candidate (Philosophy of Biology, University of Chicago). Editor of Origins & Design. Research Fellow of the Center for the Renewal of Science and Culture (Seattle).
Robert Newman, Ph.D. (Astrophysics, Cornell University), M.Div. (Faith Theological Seminary). Professor of New Testament at Biblical Theological Seminary. Director of the Interdisciplinary Biblical Research Institute. Co-author of Genesis One and the Origin of the Earth (IVP).
Nancy Pearcey, M.A. (Covenant Theological Seminary). Fellow and Policy Director of the Wilberforce Forum, Washington, D.C. Author of numerous articles on science and religion. Contributor to Of Pandas and People (Haughton). Co-author of The Soul of Science (Crossway).
Del Ratzsch, Ph.D. (Philosophy, University of Massachusetts, Amherst). Professor of Philosophy at Calvin College. Author of Philosophy of Science (IVP) and The Battle of Beginnings (IVP).
John Mark Reynolds, Ph.D. (Philosophy, University of Rochester). Director and founder of the Torrey Honors Institute, Biola University. An expert in ancient philosophy, especially as it relates to design.
Hugh Ross, Ph.D. (Physics, University of Toronto). Director of Reasons to Believe. Well-known lecturer on the relation between cosmology and creation. Author of The Fingerprint of God (Promise), The Creator and the Cosmos, Creation and Time, and Beyond the Cosmos (all NavPress).
Siegfried Scherer, Ph.D. (Biology, University of Konstanz). Professor of Microbial Ecology and Director of the Institute of Microbiology at the Technical University of Munich. Edited Typen des Lebens [Basic Types of Life] (PascalVerlag), co-authored Entstehung und Geschichte der Lebewesen [Origin and History of Living Forms] (Weyel Biologie).
Jeff Schloss, Ph.D. (Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Washington University). Professor of Biology at Westmont College. Conducts research in population genetics and ecophysiology, and the biology of human morality and altruism.
Jonathan Wells, Ph.D. (Religious Studies, Yale), Ph.D. (Molecular and Cell Biology, U.C. Berkeley). Postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley. Author of Charles Hodge's Critique of Darwinism (Edwin Mellen).
Luder Whitlock, D.Min. (Vanderbilt), M.Div. (Westminster). President of Reformed Theological Seminary. Executive Director of the New Geneva Study Bible Project. Contributor to Evangelical Dictionary of Theology, Baker Encyclopedia of the Bible, and The Changing of the Evangelical Mind. Board of Directors, National Association of Evangelicals.
