cosmology

  • Seeing the light -- of science

    Ronald Numbers -- a former Seventh-day Adventist and author of the definitive history of creationism -- discusses his break with the church, whether creationists are less intelligent and why Galileo wasn't really a martyr.
    By Steve Paulson January 2, 2007

  • Buddha on the brain

    Ex-monk B. Alan Wallace explains what Buddhism can teach Western scientists, why reincarnation should be taken seriously and what it's like to study meditation with the Dalai Lama.
    By Steve Paulson November 27, 2006

  • The flying spaghetti monster

    Why are we here on earth? To Richard Dawkins, that's a remarkably stupid question. In a heated interview, the famous biologist insists that religion is evil and God might as well be a children's fantasy.
    By Steve Paulson October 13, 2006

  • The joys of life without God

    Skeptics Society founder Michael Shermer explains why Darwin matters, how believing in God is the same as believing in astrology, and why it doesn't take divine faith to experience something bigger than ourselves.
    By Kevin Berger August 23, 2006

  • The believer

    Francis Collins -- head of the Human Genome Project -- discusses his conversion to evangelical Christianity, why scientists do not need to be atheists, and what C.S. Lewis has to do with it.
    By Steve Paulson August 7, 2006

  • Weird science

    Are we descendants of clay? Is rock slime related to Grandpa? A fantastic new book tours the competing theories of how life on Earth began 4 billion years ago.
    By Andrew O'Hehir October 31, 2005

  • Yurts, robot secretaries, and talking dinosaurs

    In Carla Speed McNeil's "Finder" comics, cultures past, present and future clash and combine to create a fantastic vision of a different world.
    By Douglas Wolk August 5, 2005

  • Magic comic ride

    In his fantastical "Promethea" series, Alan Moore indulges his fascinations with tantric sex and the tarot -- and reveals his take on kabbalistic philosophy.
    By Douglas Wolk July 1, 2005

  • Missionary man

    Tom Cruise has become a top proselytizer for Scientology. Is it because of a new private conviction, or a new public role for the church itself?
    By James Verini June 27, 2005

  • Reading "The Wapshot Chronicle"

    John Cheever's first novel may seem like a family saga set in a fishing village -- but it's really all about male hysteria and rage.
    By Adrienne Miller June 27, 2005

  • "The Hole in the Universe" by K.C. Cole

    An engaging new book explores the riddles of space, from string theory to the possibility that the universe is a holographic projection.
    By Michael Scott Moore January 26, 2001
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