science and religion

There are other senses in which the Muslim world, by and large, has not ‘excelled,’ and for that perhaps we should be grateful, not caustic. For you cannot claim the planet and eat it too. Nothing the Muslim world has accomplished can possibly compare to the harm done by Western technologies and modes of consumption.

Ten questions for the author of a novel inspired by a landmark Intelligent Design case discusses what it’s like to create a Darwinian blowhard, and more.

The typically strident atheist reveals a softer side.

A new book of essays on the meaning of Avatar, is a down-in-the-dirt wrestling match between those who resonate with it and those who hate a film that’s been labeled pro-civilization and anti-civilization, pro-science and anti-science, un-American and too American, feminist and misogynistic, leftist and neoconservative, and pagan, atheistic, theistic, and animistic.

If you don’t want a culture war, don’t act like a culture warrior.

Makes good headlines, but shouldn’t it be sound?

The slogan “Don’t be evil” prompts questions Google’s chairman seems ill-equipped to answer.

Is it really feasible to have this conversation without any reference to human values?

As quack-ish doctors and bold religious repackaging goes, Couric’s reincarnation episode doesn’t seem so bad.

America’s science teacher throws religion under the bus.