The only one of the four "Biologic Institute" directors willing to speak to "New Scientist" reporter Biever was George Weber, a retired member of the business faculty at Whitworth University, a private Christian college associated with the Presbyterian Church (USA) in Spokane, Washington. Weber belongs to the Spokane chapter of Reasons To Believe, an evangelical Christian creationist organization. Weber stated that, ""We are the first ones doing what we might call lab science in intelligent design"" and ""The objective is to challenge the scientific community on naturalism."" After speaking to "New Scientist", Weber left the board of the "Biologic Institute". Axe explained in an email to Biever that this was because Weber ""was found to have seriously misunderstood the purpose of Biologic and to have misrepresented it"."