religion
The controversy around the Torah codes gets a new life.
Dozens of mummified cats were dug up this week. This isn’t as shocking as you might think.
A Muslim professor teaches how religions can co-exist.
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All the prayers in the world to the Flying Spaghetti Monster probably won’t help.
This parody documentary skewers both the skeptic and the superstitious, and accurately shows what issues skeptics face.
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Only 46 monks have completed the seven-year marathon since 1885.
These great thinkers remind us that taking an unpopular, bold stance might not be madness.
Why do we celebrate Halloween, and what have pumpkins got to do with it?
American geneticists take a stand against the misuse of their science by racists.
In more than a dozen countries as far apart as Portugal and Russia, ‘Smith’ is the most popular occupational surname
High-level official LeClair suppressed her sexuality for decades. Now that she’s out, she’s speaking up.
Research calls into question the separation of church and state in the United States.
Michael Shermer responds to the discussion over his article, “Will Science Ever Solve the Mysteries of Consciousness, Free Will and God?”
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Some things in life just can’t be explained. And that’s okay.
A rabbi explains how religion and science don’t have to be in conflict.
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Physicist Alan Lightman sees something beyond, or even behind, the heavens.
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It may seem like the world’s going to hell in a hand basket, but the facts don’t support it.
Spirituality plays a different ballgame than science, so the language used in either of them doesn’t often match up to the other side. This, says religious teacher Rob Bell, creates a lot of conflicts.
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Robert Wright and Massimo Pigliucci discuss the challenges of scientism.
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Do we really need an imaginary guy-in-the-sky to tell us what’s right and wrong? Not anymore, says Skeptic Magazine’s Michael Shermer.
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Magical thinking has always run deep in America, but in the last 30 years things have begun to escalate. “Nutty fringe ideas” are making their way into the mainstream.
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Debunking the myth that Enlightenment-era pastors opposed modern science.
If you believe there is intelligent extraterrestrial life out there, have you ever stopped to wonder why?
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His guiding spirit Thomas helped the author make better financial decisions and take care of his health.
The agricultural revolution was one of the best things to happen to the human species, right? Wrong.
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A new study addresses the question, while also raising even more questions.
Celebrating the 50th anniversary of Robert Bellah’s essay “Civil Religion in America.”
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