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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Is religion compatible with science? Is chemistry compatible with art? A chemical description of the Mona Lisa seems to miss a great deal of what someone can learn either from looking at the painting ...

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, ...

Part I. Science and religion : conflict or complexity? 1. Science and religion / Stephen P. Weldon -- Part II. The premodern period. 2. Aristotle and Aristotelianism / Edward Grant and Craig Martin ; ...

Jessica Hughes is currently holder of a British Academy/Leverhulme Senior Research Fellowship. The history of how a new city of Pompeii was built in the 19th century is little known, but a new exhibit ...

Join Us on August 6, 2024 at CUA in Washington D.C. The Ethics of Evidence Foundation in collaboration with Herder and Herder is now presenting Volume 2 of A Christian Cosmology by ...

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 ...

Throughout history, science and religion have often been framed as adversaries locked in an enduring conflict. This portrayal implies that believing in God necessitates rejecting rational thinking, ...