science and religion

Tom Daschle, a pro-choice and pro-stem cell Catholic, will serve as Obama’s Secretary of Health and Human Services. Though attacked in the past, he has a history of keeping church and state separate.

Unlike earlier technologies the ultra-personal iPhone will enable us all to become religious dilettantes privately dabbling with a few taps of the screen: the evangelical teen can recite the rosary, the Catholic can hear prayers in Hebrew, and a Jew can get a mantra. Were the Pontiff aware that the door swung both ways would he still go 2.0?

Amid new rumors of man and dinosaur coexistence, the Texas Board of Education will be debating the “strengths and weaknesses” of evolution and deciding whether to force religion into science class.

Cizik sizes up McCain; It’s Planned Parenthood, stupid!; Greening evangelicals; AFA voting guide; Prop. 8 updates

In a new documentary, Bill Maher tries his darndest to convince viewers to abandon religion. Is he just preaching to the choir or will it start a valuable conversation?

If science and religion had learned to work together, would we be in the same position—fighting two wars while dealing with increasing water shortages, rising energy costs and a tanking economy? Probably not.

A meditation by flashlight on the nature of evil, whether natural or moral, and the power of human agency to do good in the world…

In which our columnist on faith and worker justice takes a family vacation — just a few weeks before Labor Day — and takes the occasion to reflect on workplace conditions across the American labor landscape…

The exploration of new worlds has traditionally been both liberating and exploitative; can we can break the cycle with Mars?

A Jewish theological take on the transhumanist movement…