Granville Sewell is Professor Emeritus of Mathematics at the University of Texas El Paso. He completed his PhD at Purdue University and has also been employed by IMSL, Inc., the University of Texas Center for High Performance Computing, and Texas A&M University. Sewell has written four advanced mathematics books, a widely used finite element program (www.pde2d.com), and the book In the Beginning and Other Essays on Intelligent Design.