Participant Information
William Lane Craig is Research Professor of Philosophy at Talbot School of Theology in La Mirada, California. He and his wife Jan live in Atlanta, Georgia. Dr. Craig pursued his undergraduate studies at Wheaton College (B.A. 1971) and graduate studies at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School (M.A. 1974; M.A. 1975), the University of Birmingham (England) (Ph.D. 1977), and the University of Munich (Germany) (D.Theol. 1984). From 1980-86 he taught Philosophy of Religion at Trinity, during which time he and Jan started their family. In 1987 they moved to Brussels, Belgium, where Dr. Craig pursued research at the University of Louvain until assuming his position at Talbot in 1994. He has authored or edited over thirty books, including The Kalam Cosmological Argument; Assessing the New Testament Evidence for the Historicity of the Resurrection of Jesus; Divine Foreknowledge and Human Freedom; Theism, Atheism and Big Bang Cosmology; and God, Time and Eternity, as well as over a hundred articles in professional journals of philosophy and theology, including The Journal of Philosophy, New Testament Studies, Journal for the Study of the New Testament, American Philosophical Quarterly, Philosophical Studies, Philosophy, and British Journal for Philosophy of Science. (Taken from the website of Dr. Craig.)
Francisco José Ayala is University Professor and Donald Bren Professor of
Biological Sciences at the University of California, Irvine. On 12 June 2002, President George W. Bush awarded him the 2001 National Medal of Science at the White House. In 2003 he was appointed University Professor, the highest title at the University of California and the only professor currently holding this title at the University of California, Irvine.
He has published more than 980 articles and is author or editor of 34 books. The books include Darwin’s Gift to Science and Religion (2007), Human Evolution (2007), Darwin and Intelligent Design (2006), Systematics and the Origin of Species (2005), Handbook of Evolution, vol. 2 (2005), Senderos de la Evolución Humana (2001), Variation and Evolution in Plants and Microorganisms (2000), Genetics and The Origin of Species (1997), Tempo and Mode in Evolution (1995), Modern Genetics (2nd ed., 1984), Population and Evolutionary Genetics: A Primer (1982), Evolving: The Theory and Processes of Organic Evolution (1979), Evolution (1977), Molecular Evolution (1976), and Studies in the Philosophy of Biology (1974).
He is a member of the US National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the American Philosophical Society, and a Fellow of the Linnean Society of London. He is a Foreign Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the Royal Academy of Sciences of Spain, the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei (Italy), the Mexican Academy of Sciences, the Latin American Institute for Advanced Studies, and the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts.
Ayala has received the Gold Honorary Gregor Mendel Medal from the Czech Academy of Sciences, the Gold Medal of the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, the Gold Medal of the Stazione Zoologica of Naples, the President’s Award of the American Institute of Biological Sciences, the Scientific Freedom and Responsibility Award from the AAAS, the 150th Anniversary Leadership Medal from the AAAS, the Medal of the College of France, the UCI Medal from the University of California, the 1998 Distinguished Scientist Award from SACNAS, and the William Procter Prize for Scientific Achievement from Sigma Xi in 2000.
To see a full list of Dr. Ayala’s publications and accomplishments visit his website.
Bradley Monton is a philosophy professor at the University of Colorado, Boulder. He does work in philosophy of science, probabilistic epistemology, philosophy of time, and philosophy of religion. He is the author of the new book Seeking God in Science: An Atheist Defends Intelligent Design. He has published a number of papers on the relationship between science and religion, especially on physics-based arguments for the existence of God. Also, his work on how to predict future duration from present age has been discussed in The New York Times. You may view his website here.
