Steve Donaldson (PhD) is the director of the computer science program and codirector of the computational biology program at Samford University in Birmingham, Alabama. He is also one of the cofounders of the Samford University Center for Science and Religion. His research interests in cognition, machine intelligence, evolutionary systems, and the interface of science and religion have led him to pursue a number of interdisciplinary teaching and research opportunities. He is the author of Dimensions of Faith: Understanding Faith through the Lens of Science and Religion. Donaldson enjoys mountaineering, whitewater kayaking, snow skiing, weight lifting, running, reading, and writing. He and his wife Carol have five children.