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Roger Penrose

Sir Roger Penrose is a British mathematician, mathematical physicist, philosopher of science and Nobel Laureate in Physics. He is the Emeritus Rouse Ball Professor of Mathematics at the Mathematical Institute of the University of Oxford, as well as an Emeritus Fellow of Wadham College.  Penrose is internationally renowned for his scientific work in mathematical physics,…

Marilyn Schlitz

Marilyn Schlitz, Ph.D., is a research scientist, medical anthropologist, and writer on the subjects of consciousness, healing, and consciousness-based healthcare. She is professor and chair of transpersonal psychology at Sofia University. She is also the former President and CEO of the Institute of Noetic Sciences, Senior Scientist at the Research Institute of California Pacific Medical…

Alvin Plantinga

Alvin Carl Plantinga is an American analytic philosopher, the John A. O’Brien Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at the University of Notre Dame and the inaugural holder of the Jellema Chair in Philosophy at Calvin College. Plantinga is widely known for his work in philosophy of religion, epistemology, metaphysics and Christian apologetics. He is the author…

Lisa Randall

Lisa Randall is an American theoretical physicist and a leading expert on particle physics and cosmology. She works on several of the competing models of string theory in the quest to explain the fabric of the universe. Her best known contribution to the field is the Randall-Sundrum model, first published in 1999 with Raman Sundrum.…

Russell Stannard

Russell Stannard is a retired high-energy particle physicist, currently holding the position of Professor Emeritus of Physics at the Open University. Stannard Studied Physics at University College London, where he earned a BSc in Special Physics, followed by a PhD in Cosmic Ray Physics. He has served as a lecturer at University College London, before…

John Searle

John Rogers Searle is an American philosopher and currently the Slusser Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley. John Searle began his college education at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and in his junior year became a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University, where he obtained all of his university degrees, BA, MA and DPhil.…

Paul Steinhardt

Paul J. Steinhardt is the Albert Einstein Professor of Science at Princeton University and Director of the Princeton Center for Theoretical Science at Princeton University, where he is also on the faculty of both the Department of Physics and the Department of Astrophysical Sciences. He received his B.S. at the California Institute of Technology and…

Rupert Sheldrake

Rupert Sheldrake is an English biologist and author. He is best known for his hypothesis of morphic resonance, which suggests the existence of a memory inherent in nature. He has also done research on the unexplained powers of animals and the extended mind, including phenomena like the sense of being stared at, dogs that know…

Varadaraja Raman

Varadaraja V. Raman is Emeritus Professor of Physics and Humanities at the Rochester Institute of Technology. He has lectured and written profusely on many aspects of Indian heritage and culture and authored numerous books, more than 300 book reviews and scores of articles on science and religion. He is an active member of organizations devoted…

Seyyed Hossein Nasr

Seyyed Hossein Nasr is an Iranian University Professor of Islamic studies at George Washington University, and a prominent Islamic philosopher. Nasr is a Muslim Persian philosopher and renowned scholar of comparative religion, a lifelong student and follower of Frithjof Schuon, and writes in the fields of Islamic esoterism, Sufism, philosophy of science, and metaphysics. Professor…

Victor Stenger

Victor J. Stenger is a retired elementary particle physicist. He received a Bachelor of Science degree in electrical engineering from Newark College of Engineering and later a Master of Science degree in physics from UCLA and a PhD in Physics. He then took a position on the faculty of the University of Hawaii, retiring to…

Holmes Rolston III

Holmes Rolston III is a philosopher who is University Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at Colorado State University. He is best known for his contributions to environmental ethics and the relationship between science and religion. Among other honors, Rolston won the 2003 Templeton Prize, awarded by Prince Philip in Buckingham Palace. He gave the Gifford Lectures,…