Professor Richard Dawkins has caused a sensation this year with the runaway success of his anti-religious book The God Delusion. Here, through the pen of John Cornwell, the Almighty delivers a counterblast

Probably not. That's the preliminary conclusion of a team of experts trying to determine whether a rib bone and a piece of cloth were the remains of 15th century French heroine Joan of Arc.

The introduction to the 2006 edition of the Book of Mormon has a new word: among.It sounds trivial, but to some it represents a huge change to teachings that have been passed on for genera  read more »

It turns out that human beings have a natural inclination for religious belief, especially during hard times.  read more »

A Christian biologist is suing the prestigious Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts, claiming he was fired for refusing to accept evolution, lawyers involved in the case s  read more »

Well-known groups such as the National Association of Evangelicals, National Council of Churches, the U.S.  read more »

Some leading scientists and evangelical Christian leaders have agreed to put aside their fierce differences over the origin of life and work together to fight global warming.

Behold, the ongoing, increasingly startling research: homosexual and bisexual behavior, it turns out, is rampant in the animal kingdom.

Evolution is one of the fundamental unifying concepts of biology and medicine.  read more »

According to research from the Union of Concerned Scientists, a home with 100,000 traditional holiday light bulbs means one of the TVA’s power plants needs to burn three to six tons of c  read more »

Coinciding with Charles Darwin’s birthday, hundreds of churches across the nation are taking part in “Evolution Sunday,” a day to recognize the connections between religion and Darwin’s theory of evolution.

International researchers have carried out a study and found that skipping meals for one day a month could reduce the risk of coronary artery disease by nearly 40 per cent, the Daily Mail  read more »

This weekend, San Diego is playing host to the annual meeting of the American Academy of Religion, and one topic on the docket is the Flying Spaghetti Monster, a satirical omnipresence tha  read more »

The Rev. Michael Dowd is preaching a surprising message: Evolution is real and science points to the existence of God.

New film documents discovery of Jerusalem cave containing ten caskets believed to hold remains of Jesus, Mary, Mary Magdalene and others

The Kansas state Board of Education on Tuesday repealed science guidelines questioning evolution that had made the state an object of international ridicule.

The debate over evolution vs. creationism — once largely confined to the United States — has arrived in a country known as the cradle of mankind.

if sperm could be grown in the lab, it would be possible to take early germ cells from one woman, turn them into sperm cells, and use those to fertilize the egg of another woman.  read more »

O'REILLY: Well, here's the problem that I have with throwing in my lot with science. Science doesn't advance the human condition in any moralistic way, and Jesus did.  read more »

A nationwide survey of the religious beliefs and practices of American physicians has found that the least religious of all medical specialties is psychiatry.  read more »

Research shows that religion and spirituality are linked to positive physical and mental health; however, most studies have focused on people with life threatening diseases.  read more »

Numerous studies have suggested that spirituality can provide a wide range of benefits.It can lower blood pressure, reduce anxiety and confer a general sense of well-being, says Dr.  read more »

A belief in God may have promoted the evolution of cooperative behaviour, say Canadian psychologists. They found that priming people with religious concepts makes them more generous — re  read more »

A religious sect registered as an official University of Stellenbosch society is fighting for the hearts and minds of impressionable students.Academics have spoken out against the sect, kn  read more »

Scientists for the first time were able to clone embryos from adult monkeys, a breakthrough that raises the possibility that human cloning might soon be possible,

Researchers at Wake Forest University and Harvard University reported the stem cells they drew from amniotic fluid donated by pregnant women hold much the same promise as embryonic stem cells.  read more »

Over the last several decades, Christians have begun to emerge back into the intellectual public square. This is primarily occurring in the field of philosophy, New Testament studies with regard to the historical Jesus and the gospels, and it is now beginning to occur in the physical sciences as manifested in the Intelligent Design movement...Presenting clear scientific evidence that Christians had largely been without, Lee Strobel's "Case for a Creator" revealed a complex universe that many scientists could now only explain with the existence of some kind of intelligence.  read more »

John Freshwater said yesterday that he couldn't recall ever using Lego blocks to illustrate a scientific point in his eighth-grade science classroom.David Millstone, an attorney for the sc  read more »

Science can't say whether God represents a loving, vengeful or nonexistent being.  read more »

The good news: This won't happen for another 7.6 billion years. The bad news: Life on Earth will end long before then.

Scientists have made a startling breakthrough that allows them to "reprogram" ordinary skin cells to act like embryonic stem cells.

"This allows you to get the chance to say, 'Wait, they really are related because their sequences are related.' We didn't get enough sequences to definitively say that, but what sequences we got support that idea," said Asara.

New research on mice shows the brain processes aggressive behavior as it does other rewards.  read more »

About 56 percent of all responding physicians concluded that religion and spirituality had a significant impact on health-related issues, even though only 6 percent of them believe that religion and spirituality can actually affect “hard medical outcomes.” In addition, 76 percent of physicians believe that religion and spirituality help patients to cope and a similar number feel that religion and spirituality help patients maintain a “positive state of mind.” More than half of the respondents cited the benefits of emotional and practical support provided by the religious community.  read more »

A new study suggests household upbringing -- not the study of science or academic pressure -- is most often the determining factor when it comes to whether or not a scientist is religious.  read more »

Cleveland, OH- With hopes of mending a millenniums-old feud between religion and science, the 1.2-million-member United Church of Christ is today launching a new web-based advertising camp  read more »