Newswise — Michael Silberstein, associate professor of philosophy, is director of Elizabethtown College's Center for Science and Religion. Last March, he organized a Forum on Intelligent Design and Darwinian Evolution: the Scientific, Theological and Civil Dimensions. The purpose of the forum, according to Silberstein, was "to draw attention to, conduct and facilitate civil discourse on these deeply important matters in the hope that better informed citizens will make better decisions about the fate of our country and our children's education."
Forum participants included several key witnesses in the Dover case: Michael Behe, Lehigh University professor of biochemistry; Paul Gross, University Professor of Life Sciences, emeritus, at the University of Virginia and author, with Barbara Forrest, of "Creationism's Trojan Horse: the Wedge of Intelligent Design;" Witold "Vic" Walczak, legal director of the Greater Pittsburgh Chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Pennsylvania, who is representing the parents; Richard Thompson, president and chief council of the Thomas More Law Center, a national non-profit public interest law firm and educational organization based in Ann Arbor, Mich., who will represent the Dover school board.
Robert Wheelersburg, associate professor of anthropology, has taught human evolution at Elizabethtown College for nearly 20 years. He has written several well-received editorials on teaching evolution versus intelligent design in the Harrisburg and Lancaster newspapers, and he has appeared on the Bob Durgin radio talk show broadcast throughout central Pennsylvania. He has debated publicly several leading figures on Creation Science and intelligent design. Wheelersburg is a graduate of the Ohio State University and holds master's and doctoral degrees from Brown University. He has held three Fulbright Fellowships and obtained several grants from the National Science Foundation and other national and international agencies.
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