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Richard Carrier is the renowned author of Sense and Goodness without God and Not the Impossible Faith, as well as numerous articles online and in print. He received his Ph.D. in ancient history from Columbia University and now specializes in the modern philosophy of naturalism, the origins of Christianity, and the intellectual history of Greece and Rome.
As an advocate of atheism and metaphysical naturalism, he also features in the documentary film The God Who Wasn't There. He currently contributes to The God Contention, a web site comparing and contrasting various world views.
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Richard Haynes (AKA: Brother Richard) is a writer and public speaker living in Atlanta, Georgia. He was raised in a non-religious home, but as a teenage runaway he had a "born again" experience. Brother Richard was a minister for 19, receiving a Bachelors of Science in Biblical Studies, before losing his faith Christianity.
Richard is now secularly ordained and has dedicated himself to building non-theist communities, and encouraging others to "come out" of the atheist closet. He maintains the blog: LifeWithoutFaith.com, co-hosts the highly popular podcast: AtheistNews.org, and is the executive director of AtheistNexus.org.
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PZ Myers is an associate biology professor at the University of Minnesota Morris. An outspoken critic of “Intelligent Design” (ID) and of creationism in general, he is an active proponent of evolution.
He has the highest-rated scientific blog on the internet, Pharyngula,
In 2009, PZ Myers was awarded “Humanist of the Year” by the American Humanist Association. PZ also has an asteroid named in his honor(Asteroid 153298 Paulmyers).
A self-avowed "godless liberal" and outspoken atheist, he is a vocal skeptic of all forms of religion, superstition, supernaturalism, spirituality and pseudoscience.
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Robert M. Price is professor of theology and scriptural studies at the Coleman Theological Seminary, professor of biblical criticism at the Center for Inquiry Institute, and the author of a number of books on theology and the historicity of Jesus, including Deconstructing Jesus, The Reason Driven Life, Jesus is Dead, and Inerrant the Wind: The Evangelical Crisis in Biblical Authority.
Price is a fellow of the Jesus Seminar, a group of 150 writers and scholars who study the historicity of Jesus, the organizer of a Web community for those interested in the history of Christianity, and sits on the advisory board of the Secular Student Alliance. He is a religious skeptic, especially of orthodox Christian beliefs.
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Michael Shermer is the Founding Publisher of Skeptic magazine (www.skeptic.com), the Executive Director of the Skeptics Society, a monthly columnist for Scientific American, the host of the Skeptics Distinguished Science Lecture Series at Caltech, and Adjunct Professor of Economics at Claremont Graduate University.
According to the late Stephen Jay Gould (from his Foreword to Why People Believe Weird Things): “Michael Shermer, as head of one of America’s leading skeptic organizations, and as a powerful activist and essayist in the service of this operational form of reason, is an important figure in American public life.”
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