University of California, Santa Barbara

Dr. Mary Poplin is a professor in the School of Educational Studies at Claremont Graduate University in Claremont, California, and was Dean of the School from 2000-2004.  She received her Ph.D. in Education from the University of Texas. For an extended biography, please click here.

Dr. Rana received his Ph.D. in Chemistry from Ohio University and completed his post-doctoral work at the Universities of Virginia and Georgia. He served as a product development specialist for Procter & Gamble for seven years, and has been widely published in the peer-reviewed scientific literature. During the course of the past several years, Dr. Rana has authored numerous articles and books pertaining to the topic of origins, including his most recent works, Origins of Life - Biblical and Evolutionary Models Face Off, Who was Adam? - A Creation Approach to the Origin of Man, and Unveiled Masterpiece - How the Latest Advances in Biochemistry Reveal the Activity of a Creator

Dr. Hugh Ross is the President and Founder of Reasons To Believe, a ministry that exists to remove the doubts of skeptics, strengthen the faith of believers and demonstrate that science and the Bible complement one another. Dr. Ross earned a Bachelor's degree in physics from the University of British Columbia and his Master's degree and Ph.D. in astronomy from the University of Toronto. For several years he conducted research on quasars and galaxies as a post-doctoral fellow at the California Institute of Technology. Dr. Ross is internationally renowned as an expert in the field of science apologetics and is the author of numerous books, including The Fingerprint of God, The Creator and the Cosmos, Beyond the Cosmos, The Genesis Question, Origins of Life, A Matter of Days, and his most recent release, Creation as Science.

Dr. Schaefer is a computational and theoretical chemist and author of numerous scientific publications. He is the Graham Perdue Professor of Chemistry and Director of the Center for Computational Chemistry at the University of Georgia. Schaefer earned his B.S. degree in chemical physics from MIT, and his Ph.D. degree in chemical physics from Stanford University.