For the past 20 years, Elaine Howard Ecklund has studied scientists’ attitudes towards religion. What she’s found, through more than 40,000 surveys and nearly 2,500 confidential interviews, is that ...

Discover how the Bahá'í Writings reconcile the age-old conflict between science and religion, advocating for a harmonious relationship that fosters societal progress.

Many people think that science is just another religion, no better than their own. Their reasoning is apparently something along these lines: “Beliefs about the unseen world are based entirely on ...

Over the past several months The Scientist has provided a forum for a debate purportedly on the compatibility of science and religion, although in fact the discussion has been limited to the dualistic ...

Introduction -- The theological limits of the autonomy of science -- Copernicus and Galileo : thorns in the sides of popes -- God : from the centre to the periphery of science -- Science censored -- ...

“Through the study and analysis of a system’s components, a design theorist is able to determine whether various natural structures are the product of chance, natural law, intelligent design, or some ...

The study of the psychology of religion has become a domain of active research following the pioneering work of psychologist and philosopher William James, whose book The Varieties of Religious ...

William Provine takes the extreme point of view that people (implying particularly scientists) who practice religion must check their brains at the church door. His view seems to be that a scientist ...

Why do scientists turn to questions traditionally reserved for the humanities? Tom McLeish argues for a deep kinship between the two spheres. "Students don't have time for electives. Rather than ...

“Fringe”, “weird” and “unthinkable” are perfectly acceptable descriptors any science writer might use when rightfully denouncing some hare-brained professor’s paper that suggests, for instance, the ...

The scene of the Trinity nuclear bomb test, from Christopher’s Nolan’s film Oppenheimer, has already become a memorable moment in film history. After the laboratory personnel wait in harrowing ...