The conflict between science and religion may have its origins in the structure of our brains, researchers at Case Western Reserve University and Babson College have found. Clashes between the use of ...

When you ponder the vastness of the universe, the wonder of the natural world, or the mysteries of consciousness, what are you left with? Are you someone who sees nothing but a material world, the ...

As a non-religious person who firmly believes in the separation of church and state, I began reading Robert Gaviak’s column “Religions, science don’t belong in the same classroom” thinking I would ...

For centuries there has been tension—in churches, the academies, and the public square—between science and religion. Each makes truth claims and addresses essential questions. Science looks at the ...

Do religion and science always have to be in conflict? Religion and science have had some famously messy fights, but do they always have to be in conflict? In this episode of Crash Course Religions, ...

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 ...

There is, however, a lot of nuance buried in the survey’s results. Here are some interesting numbers from the analysis: overall, 59 percent of respondents said that science and religion are generally ...

The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic showed the immediate need to address the inequality in vaccine coverage. Equitable access to vaccines has been far from ideal despite calls from ...

The highly visible conflict between evolutionary biology and creationism has stimulated much com- mentary in the scientific press about the relationship between science and religion. The Scientist ...

When conversations turn to religious diversity, it does not take too long before someone says something like “How can they believe such things?” where “they” refers to participants in some religion ...

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 ...