Science and Faith

The atheist and the creationist: Can't they just get along? The atheist and the creationist: Can't they just get along?

My friend is considering teaching "young earth" creationism in his school, and I think I'm going to vomit.
By Cary Tennis May 15, 2008

  • I'm an African-American agnostic in a sea of Baptist believers

    Every Sunday I sit in the pew, full of doubt, next to my conservative Christian wife.
    By Cary Tennis April 21, 2009

  • 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

  • I'm a brilliant scientist and I fear for the world's fate

    I wish I could have faith -- at least for my daughter's sake if not for mine.
    By Cary Tennis January 24, 2008

  • Divining the brain

    Andrew Newberg discusses what happens in our brains during prayer, meditation and mystical visions. Yet understanding the brain, argues the neuroscientist, does not close the book on the nature of religious experience.
    By Steve Paulson September 20, 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

  • The disbeliever

    Sam Harris, author of "The End of Faith," on why religious moderates are worse than fundamentalists, 9/11 led us into a deranged holy war, and believers should be treated like alien-abduction kooks.
    By Steve Paulson July 7, 2006

  • Going beyond God

    Historian and former nun Karen Armstrong says the afterlife is a "red herring," hating religion is a pathology and that many Westerners cling to infantile ideas of God.
    By Steve Paulson May 30, 2006

  • "Religious belief itself is an adaptation"

    Sociobiology founder Edward O. Wilson explains why we're hard-wired to form tribalistic religions, denies that "evolutionism" is a faith, and says that heaven, if it existed, would be hell.
    By Steve Paulson March 21, 2006

  • Dissecting God

    Philosopher Daniel Dennett argues that America is drowning in religion -- and that faith needs to be analyzed with the tools of science.
    By Gordy Slack February 8, 2006
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