Arthur Peacocke, formerly a biochemist and a member of the theology faculty at Oxford University, is honorary canon of Christ Church Cathedral at Oxford and a past winner of the Templeton Prize.

Brian Swimme is a mathematical cosmologist on the graduate faculty of the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco.

Daniel C. Dennett is University Professor and Austin B. Fletcher Professor of Philosophy, and Director of the Center for Cognitive Studies at http://ase.tufts.edu/cogstud/~ddennett.htm Tufts University.

Edward O. Wilson is Pellegrino University Professor emeritus at Harvard.

Francis Fukuyama is the Bernard L. Schwartz Professor of Political Economy at the School of Advanced International Studies.

Freeman Dyson is professor emeritus of physics at the http://www.sns.ias.edu/%7edyson/ Institute for Advanced Study. For more info go to www.meaningoflife.tv.

Huston Smith is Thomas J. Watson Professor of Religion and Distinguished Adjunct Professor of Philosophy, Emeritus, Syracuse University.

John Haught is Landegger Distinguished Professor of Theology at Georgetown University. For more info go to www.meaningoflife.tv.

John Maynard Smith, who died in 2004 at the age of 84, was one of the major figures in 20th century evolutionary biology. He was professor emeritus at the University of Sussex.

John Polkinghorne, formerly a theoretical physicist at Cambridge University, is an Anglican priest.

Joseph Goldstein is a cofounder of the Insight Meditation Society in Barre, Massachusetts, where he is one of the resident guiding teachers.

Keith Ward is Regius Professor of Divinity at Oxford University. For more info go to www.meaningoflife.tv.

Omid Safi teaches in the Religion and Philosophy Department at Colgate University. For more info go to www.meaningoflife.tv.

Sharon Salzberg is a cofounder of the Insight Meditation Society in Barre, Massachusetts, where she is one of the resident guiding teachers.

Steven Pinker is Johnstone Family Professor of Psychology in the Department of Psychology at Harvard University.