Holmes Rolston is University Distinguished Professor and Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at Colorado State University. He has written seven books, acclaimed in critical notice in professional journals and the national press. The more recent are: Three Big Bangs (Columbia University Press), Genes, Genesis and God (Cambridge University Press) (Gifford Lectures); Science and Religion: A Critical Survey (Random House, McGraw Hill, Harcourt Brace, Templeton), Philosophy Gone Wild (Prometheus Books) Environmental Ethics (Temple University Press), and Conserving Natural Value (Columbia University Press). He edited Biology, Ethics, and the Origins of Life (Jones and Bartlett, Wadsworth). He has written chapters in eighty books and over one hundred articles. Scholars have cited and discussed in print Rolston's work over one thousand times. His books have been used as texts in three hundred colleges and universities. His articles have been reprinted and anthologized one hundred times. His work is published in Australian, Canadian, British, German, Scandinavian, Slovenian, South African, Indian, Japanese, Chinese, and Russian presses and journals, translated, reviewed and cited in journals and books in French, German, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Finnish, Czechoslovakian, Polish, Hungarian, Romanian, Slovenian, Slovak, Russian, Japanese, and Chinese. Environmental Ethics, Philosophy Gone Wild, and Genes, Genesis and God are in Chinese translation. Rolston has spoken as distinguished lecturer on seven continents. He delivered the Gifford Lectures, University of Edinburgh, 1997/1998. He was awarded the Templeton Prize in Religion in 2005, and the Mendel Medal (Villanova University) in 2005.