http://dir.salon.com/topics/science_and_faith/?source=rss&aim=science_and_faith en-us Copyright 2007 Salon.com. Thu, 15 May 2008 03:05:00 PDT By Cary Tennis Thu, 15 May 2008 03:05:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/mwt/col/tenn/2008/05/15/creationism/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/col/tenn/2008/05/15/creationism/index.html?source=rss My friend is considering teaching "young earth" creationism in his school, and I think I'm going to vomit. By Cary Tennis Thu, 15 May 2008 03:05:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/mwt/col/tenn/2008/01/24/planet_death/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/col/tenn/2008/01/24/planet_death/index.html?source=rss I wish I could have faith -- at least for my daughter's sake if not for mine. By Steve Paulson Thu, 15 May 2008 03:05:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/books/int/2007/01/02/numbers/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/int/2007/01/02/numbers/index.html?source=rss 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 Thu, 15 May 2008 03:05:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/books/int/2006/11/27/wallace/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/int/2006/11/27/wallace/index.html?source=rss 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 Thu, 15 May 2008 03:05:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/books/int/2006/10/13/dawkins/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/int/2006/10/13/dawkins/index.html?source=rss 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 Thu, 15 May 2008 03:05:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/books/int/2006/09/20/newberg/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/int/2006/09/20/newberg/index.html?source=rss 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 Kevin Berger Thu, 15 May 2008 03:05:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/books/int/2006/08/23/shermer/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/int/2006/08/23/shermer/index.html?source=rss 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 Steve Paulson Thu, 15 May 2008 03:05:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/books/int/2006/08/07/collins/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/int/2006/08/07/collins/index.html?source=rss 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 Thu, 15 May 2008 03:05:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/books/int/2006/07/07/harris/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/int/2006/07/07/harris/index.html?source=rss 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 Thu, 15 May 2008 03:05:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/books/int/2006/05/30/armstrong/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/int/2006/05/30/armstrong/index.html?source=rss 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 Thu, 15 May 2008 03:05:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/books/int/2006/03/21/wilson/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/int/2006/03/21/wilson/index.html?source=rss 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 Gordy Slack Thu, 15 May 2008 03:05:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/books/int/2006/02/08/dennett/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/int/2006/02/08/dennett/index.html?source=rss Philosopher Daniel Dennett argues that America is drowning in religion -- and that faith needs to be analyzed with the tools of science.