Thomas B. Fowler is founder and president of The Xavier Zubiri Foundation of North America, devoted to disseminating the work of Xavier Zubiri in the English-speaking world.  He serves as editor of two journals, The Xavier Zubiri Review and The Telecommunications Review.  He is the author of over 100 articles, papers, and reviews.  He has translated two books of Zubiri’s writings, and has given courses and papers in the United States, Canada, Mexico, South America, and Europe.  Evolution, especially its systems and mathematical aspects, has been a subject of lifelong interest to him.  His book, The Evolution Controversy, A Survey of Competing Theories will be published in 2007 by Baker Academic Press.  He also serves as an adjunct professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering School at George Mason University, where he teaches graduate courses in optics and optical communications.  He has a doctorate in systems and control theory from the George Washington University, a M.S. from Columbia University, a B.S. in electrical engineering and a B.A. in philosophy from the University of Maryland, College Park.  He is also a Senior Principal Scientist in the Center for Information Technology and Telecommunications of Mitretek Systems, a not-for-profit consulting firm working entirely in the public interest.  Mitretek specializes in thorough, objective analyses of issues, proposals, and problems in the science and technology fields.  Dr. Fowler works in the area of system analysis and design, including system stability and performance.  He does research on network performance issues, chaos and fractals, telecommunications technology trends and the mutual interaction of these trends and changes in society as a whole, and is also actively involved in planning the next generation of U.S. government telecommunications for clients such as the General Accounting Office, the U.S. Senate, and the General Services Administration.