About Us
Evangelicals & Scientists United to Protect Creation is a bridge building effort between top environmental scientists and evangelical leaders (see below). On January 17, 2007 this group released An Urgent Call to Action: Scientists and Evangelicals Unite to Protect Creation. The statement - sent to President George W. Bush, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, bipartisan congressional leaders, and national evangelical and scientific organizations - urges “fundamental change in values, lifestyles, and public policies required to address these worsening problems before it is too late. Press Release.
Signatories
Rev. Jim Ball Ph.D.
Executive Director
Evangelical Environmental Network
Steven Bouma-Prediger Ph.D.
John H. and Jeanne M. Jacobson Professor of Religion
Hope College
Eric Chivian M.D.
Director
Center for Health and the Global Environment, Harvard Medical School
Shared 1985 Nobel Peace Prize
Rev. Richard Cizik D.Min., M.Div
Vice President for Governmental Affairs
National Association of Evangelicals
Rita R. Colwell Ph.D.
Distinguished University Professor
University of Maryland College Park and at
The Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health
Judith A. Curry Ph.D.
Professor and Chair of the School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences
Georgia Institute of Technology
Calvin B. DeWitt Ph.D.
Professor of Environmental Studies
University of Wisconsin-Madison
President
Academy of Evangelical Scientists and Ethicists
Rev. Daryl Eldridge Ph.D.
President
Rockbridge Seminary
Paul R. Epstein M.D., M.P.H.
Associate Director
Center for Health and the Global Environment, Harvard Medical School
Howard Frumkin M.D., Dr.P.H.
Director
National Center for Environmental Health and Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Rev. David P. Gushee Ph.D.
University Fellow and Graves Professor of Moral Philosophy
Union University
James E. Hansen Ph.D.
Director
NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies
Adjunct Professor
Columbia University Earth Institute
Bernd Heinrich Ph.D.
Professor of Biology
University of Vermont
Rev. Joel C. Hunter, D. Min.
Senior Pastor
Northland—A Church Distributed
Randall D. Isaac Ph.D.
Executive Director
American Scientific Affiliation
Cheryl Bridges Johns Ph.D.
Professor of Christian Formation and Discipleship
Church of God Theological Seminary
The Rt. Revd. James Jones
The Bishop of Liverpool
Nancy Knowlton Ph.D.
Director
Center for Marine Biodiversity and Conservation
John Dove Isaacs Professor of Natural Philosophy
Scripps Institution of Oceanography
James J. McCarthy Ph.D.
Agassiz Professor of Biological Oceanography
Harvard University
Peter H. Raven Ph.D.
President
Missouri Botanical Garden
George Engelmann Professor of Botany
Washington University
Carl Safina Ph.D.
President
Blue Ocean Institute
Peter Seligmann Ph.D.
Chairman and CEO
Conservation International
Joseph K. Sheldon, Ph.D.
Distinguished Professor of Biology and Environmental Science
Messiah College
Professor of Environmental Studies
The Au Sable Institute of Environmental Studies
James Gustave Speth J.D., M.Litt.
Dean, and Sara Shallenberger Brown Professor in the Practice of Environmental Policy
Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies
Rev. Eric Steinkamp Ph.D.
Chair of the Department of Natural Sciences and Math and Professor of Environmental Sciences
Northwest University
Professor of Environmental Studies
The Au Sable Institute of Environmental Studies
Loren Wilkinson Ph.D.
Professor of Philosophy and Interdisciplinary Studies
Regent College
Edward O. Wilson Ph.D.
University Research Professor Emeritus
Harvard University
Ken Wilson
Senior Pastor
Vineyard Church of Ann Arbor
Institutional affiliation is given for identification purposes only. All signatories do so as individuals expressing their personal opinions and not as representatives of their organizations.
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