Francisco Ayala

Professor of Evolutionary Biology at UC Irvine

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Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of California at Irvine; author, most recently, of Darwin and Intelligent Design and the forthcoming Darwin’s Gift to Science and Religion; former ordained Catholic priest, he also holds professorships in Philosophy and Logic at UC Irvine

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