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An online chat with experts Dr. Kenneth Miller, Dr. Eugenie Scott and Dr. Barbara Forrest
 Kenneth Miller is a cell biologist and a Professor of Biology at Brown University. His research work on cell membrane structure and function has produced more than 50 scientific papers and reviews in leading journals, including Cell and Nature, as well as leading popular sources such as Natural History and Scientific American. Miller is the co-author, with Joseph S. Levine, of three different high school and college biology textbooks used by millions of students nationwide. Miller chairs the Education Committee of the American Society for Cell Biology and serves as an advisor on life sciences to the NewsHour, a daily PBS television program on news and public affairs.
One of Miller's principal interests is the public understanding of evolution. He has written a number of articles defending the scientific integrity of evolution, answering challenges such as "intelligent design," and he has debated a number of anti-evolutionists over the years. His recent book, "Finding Darwin's God: A Scientist's Search for Common Ground between God and Evolution," addresses the scientific status of evolutionary theory and its relationship to religious views of nature.
Eugenie C. Scott, a former college professor, is Executive Director of the National Center for Science Education, Inc., a not for profit membership organization in Oakland, CA, of scientists, teachers, and others that works to improve the teaching of evolution, and of science as a way of knowing. It opposes the advocacy of "scientific" creationism and other religiously-based views in science classes. She has served on the Board of Directors of the Biological Sciences Curriculum Study (BSCS), and on the advisory counsels of several church and state separation organizations. She has held elective offices in the American Anthropological Association and the American Association for the Advancement of Science and is a past president of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists.
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