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 ...

The science vs. religion debate is critical today psychologically because of how closely it ties to questions of meaning in a time when meaning so often escapes us. The Creative Systems Theory concept ...

A new history challenges perceptions that the two are either completely autonomous or completely at odds. Nicholas Spencer’s latest book, Magisteria: The Entangled Histories of Science and Religion, ...

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 ...

(RNS) — We Americans all know that the relationship between faith and science is on the rocks. We’re taught in school that the split began some four centuries ago, with the Galileo affair. You ...

A century ago today, America fixed its attention on a Dayton courthouse. Tennessee was prosecuting John T. Scopes for violating a 1925 law forbidding public schools and universities to teach the ...

Is climate science actually a religion? The Trump administration would like you to think so. Earlier this year, Lee Zeldin, Trump’s administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, announced a ...

For seven seasons, the show has offered a clichéd (and nostalgic) vision of how atheists and believers relate to each other. My mom was the one who told me to watch The Big Bang Theory. It was a show ...

'End of Faith' author Sam Harris angers both believers and atheists alike. Dec. 29, 2010 — -- He's bashed the Catholic church as "an institution more concerned with preventing contraception than ...

Three centuries ago, Italian scientist, Galileo was publicly denounced by a Catholic priest. He had been dubbed an enemy of true religion. And he would be remembered as the man that started the debate ...