George F. R. Ellis
George Ellis is Professor Emeritus of Applied Mathematics at the University of Cape Town, South Africa. His research has focused on relativity theory and its application to cosmology and on complexity studies. Professor Ellis is a Past-President of the International Society of Relativity and Gravitation and of the Royal Society of South Africa. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society (London) and a founding member of the International Society of Science and Religion. He participated in the Vatican Observatory/CTNS series of meetings on "Scientific Perspectives on Divine Action” and was the J. K. Russell Fellow of Science and Religion at the Center for Theology and the Natural Sciences, Berkeley, California. In 2004 Professor Ellis was awarded the Templeton Prize. He has written several books, including: The Large Scale Structure of Space Time; On the Moral Nature of the universe: Cosmology, Theology, and Ethics; The Far Future Universe; and Downward Causation and the Neurobiology of Free Will.
Keith Ward
Keith Ward is the Regius Professor of Divinity Emeritus at the University of Oxford. His research has focused on comparative theology and the interplay between science and faith. He has lectured at the universities of Glasgow, St. Andrews, Cambridge, and London, where he was Professor of History and Philosophy of Religion, Professor Ward is a Fellow of the British Academy, Honorary Fellow of Trinity Hall, Cambridge, and Fellow of Christ Church, Oxford. He was ordained in Church of England in 1972. He has written more than twenty books, including: The Big Questions in Science and Religion; God, Chance and Necessity; Pascal's Fire; and God, A Guide for the Perplexed.
David Sloan Wilson
David Sloan Wilson is SUNY Distinguished Professor of Biology and Anthropology at Binghamton University. His research has focused on applying evolutionary theory to all aspects of humanity in addition to the rest of life. Professor Wilson is director of EvoS, a unique campus-wide evolutionary studies program, and co-director of the Evolution Institute, the world's first evolutionary think tank. He is known for championing the theory of multilevel selection, which has implications ranging from the origin of life to the nature of religion. He has written a number of books, including: Darwin’s Cathedral: Evolution, Religion, and the Nature of Society; Evolution for Everyone: How Darwin’s Theory Can Change the Way We Think About Our Lives; and Evolving the City: An Evolutionist Contemplates Changing the World—One City at a Time.