Robert T. Pennock is a professor in the Lyman Briggs College, the Department of Philosophy, the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, and the Interdepartmental Graduate Program in Ecology, Evolutionary Biology and Behavior at Michigan State University in East Lansing. He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and is the author of Tower of Babel: The Evidence against the New Creationism (The MIT Press, 1999). In 2005 he testified as an expert witness in the Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School Board case regarding the teaching of intelligent-design creationism in public schools.