Cardinal Archbishop of Vienna Christoph Schönborn has stepped into the confused controversies surrounding evolution, and added some much needed clarity. Just enough clarity, mind you. Not too much.
Most newsmakers are found on the extreme poles of one argument or another. Nancy Pelosi and Newt Gingrich, for example. Or Charles Darwin and God. But Kenneth Miller is filling campus auditoriums ...
Fifty years ago, no one knew why flowers bloomed; the phenomenon baffled researchers and bolstered creationists, who pointed to gaps in science as proof of the existence of a higher being. A half ...
Francisco J. Ayala, a Dominican priest turned evolutionary biologist and geneticist, says he tells audiences not just that evolution is a well-corroborated scientific theory, but that belief in ...
My work is at a nexus between evolutionary psychology and the psychology of religion. I often wonder things like why religions evolved different food practices and why they have different religious ...
Evolution supporters argue: Courts have affirmed evolution's place in education. Creationism is just a belief, not based on empirical data, and not testable. Creationism undermines critical thinking ...
DALLAS (Reuters Life!) - U.S. author Robert Wright traces the history of God and suggests that it might point to the unfolding of something divine, though perhaps not in the sense that most people of ...
Evolution and the Bible don’t contradict each other. To have Jesus, Mary “most likely” had sex. And Charles Darwin is worthy of sainthood. Those are statements the Rev. Michael Dowd, who spoke at ...
Belief in a spiritual realm beyond the physical world remains very common among U.S. adults, the 2023-24 Religious Landscape Study (RLS) finds. Roughly eight-in-ten Americans believe “there is ...