Mitch Stokes is a Senior Fellow of Philosophy at New St. Andrews College. He received his Ph.D. in philosophy from Notre Dame and an M.A. in religion from Yale. He also holds an M.S. in mechanical engineering and, prior to his academic career, worked for an international engineering firm where he earned five patents in aeroderivative gas turbine technology. In addition to biographies of Newton and Galileo, his books include A Shot of Faith (to the Head), How to Be an Atheist: Why Many Skeptics Aren’t Skeptical Enough, and Calculus for Everyone. He is currently working on a project funded by the Temple Religion Trust investigating the use of beauty as a guide to truth in contemporary physics.