What if you could take a drug that would quickly alter your sexual orientation from straight to gay, or vice versa?To their surprise, neurobiologists have discovered that homosexuality can be turned o  read more »

This week, students joined the protest and have been on an "anti-clergy" campaign to voice their opposition to the Pope ? over comments he made in 1990 about the church's inquisition t  read more »

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

This is a well-written article that's basically a rebuttal to Dawkins' The God Delusion and scientism. Extremely well-written--a must-read.  read more »

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.

It's old, but it looks faked.  read more »

Celebrated atheists Sam Harris and Richard Dawkins both celebrate Christmas. In Dawkins' words, "[Christmas] has long since ceased to be a religious festival. I participate for family reasons, with a  read more »

Without a way to measure religious beliefs, anthropologists have had difficulty studying religion.  read more »

Apes store things they may need later, like packrats, so we must be descended from either packrats or apes.

If you visit Jerusalem, you may come home with a psychotic disorder that causes you to believe that God has spoken to you or that you are a Messiah.

Scientist and Pulitzer Prize-winning author E.O. Wilson wishes to enlist the aid of Atheist and Theist alike to save the environment.

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 »

"Education has ordered privately run and funded Christian evangelical schools to teach evolution and sex education or it will force their closures. Except for home-schooled students, all children between 6 and 16 years of age are required to be taught secular Darwinian theory."  read more »

Theologians and scientists will discuss faith and Darwinism at a five-day Vatican-sponsored conference

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 »

John Freshwater, a science teacher at Mount Vernon Middle School near Columbus, Ohio, used a device known as a high-frequency generator to burn images of a cross on pupils last December, according to  read more »

While it may seem like everyone believes in global warming and the impending catastrophe it will bring, a group of conservative Christians countered that message Thursday by launching a national camp  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.

I called this one.  read more »

Europeans have long viewed the conflict between evolutionists and creationists as primarily an American phenomenon, but it has recently jumped the Atlantic Ocean with skirmishes in Italy, Germany, Pol  read more »

The premise of the story is that certain similarities on certain chromosomes could (but don't necessarily) indicate that you really *are* a monkey's uncle. Maybe. Or maybe not.

A growing number of doctors are implementing their faith in their practice by praying for their patients and eschewing birth control, morning after pills like Plan B, and in vitro fertilization.

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.

So I suppose "Krishna Sunday" will be next.  read more »

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.

Uh, sort of.

"Catholicism's Christoph Cardinal Schönborn has dubbed the most fervent of faith-challenging scientists followers of 'scientism' or 'evolutionism,' since they hope science, beyond being a measure, can replace religion as a worldview and a touchstone."  read more »

Since religion seems to be embedded in our DNA, there's no way we can expect to convince people not to believe. Belief is tied with being irrational or sentimental. But maybe there's a reason we were  read more »

Scientific advisers to the government emphasize in a report the importance of teaching evolution in public schools.The report by the National Academy of Sciences and its Institute of Medicine follows  read more »

A decline in religious observance over the last century was directly linked to a rise in average intelligence, claims Richard Lynn, emeritus professor of psychology at Ulster University.

By distilling religious belief into a genetic predisposition to pass along unverifiable information, the program predicts that religion will flourish.  read more »

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

OK, but there are a few problems here:  read more »

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

Why is it OK to ridicule certain positions but not others?  read more »

Ken Ham, who opened the Creation Museum last year, and co-author Charles Ware, president of Crossroads Bible College in Indianapolis, have written "Darwin's Plantation: Evolution's Racist Roots," argu  read more »

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

In Nairobi, Kenya, Evangel  read more »

"The California Science Center in Los Angeles is hosting a talk Saturday on the question 'Are Science and Religion Compatible?'"

I love these debates, personally. I'm not sure they convince anyone of anything, but they're fascinating discussions.  read more »

A bunch of doctors are getting together to discuss and hopefully prove that prayer increases your chance of physical healing. But it's been done, sort of.

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 »

The article has a definite bias against the doctors from the first sentence,
but it's all about those who refuse to prescribe abortion pills, contraceptives, sterilizations, as well as euthanasia, Viagra to unmarried men, fertility treatments to lesbians, etc.  read more »

If animals engage in homosexual behavior, does this mean homosexuality is "natural" or is it simply an effect of the fall?

"The famed National History Museum in Oslo, Norway, has been targeted by l  read more »

Unknown outside Muslim circles two years ago, Adnan Oktar -- the 52-year-old Turk behind the pseudonym Harun Yahya -- caught the attention of scientists and teachers in Europe and North America by mas  read more »

It's long been a puzzle for Christian astronomers, and now a professor from the University of Notre Dame thinks he has it figured out -- almost, anyway.  read more »

A Labour peer has accused the leader of Scotland's Catholic Church of misleading the public over the government's embryo research proposals.Fertility expert Lord Winston said statements made by Cardin  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 »

The guy mapping the human genome discusses how he sees his religion and science coinciding.

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 »

So going to church lowers your cholesterol? I thought it was just good for eternal life. Personally, I'm skeptical.

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,

"You wer  read more »

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 »

A team of British-based researchers will spend the next three years probing why people believe in religion.

Experts from the Russian Federal Security Service examined the Shroud of Turin and determined that the wounds and other indications exactly match the Gospel accounts of Christ's crucifixion, including  read more »

A scientist who claims to have cloned embryos for Embryonic Stem Cell treatment has been arrested for faking his findings.

Scientists and evangelicals band together to fight global warming. Creation: Save the Planet!

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 »

It is not hard to see the reasoning: if you can prove how something has come to pass and why that was the case, then why look to the mysterious and ineffable for comfort or answers?  read more »

"Born in Haifa, Israel, Doron Nof is an internationally renowned oceanographer at Florida State University." Nof has made a career out of trying to scientifically debunk Biblical accounts, such as an explanation for the parting of the Red Sea and Jesus' walking on water.  read more »

News that scientists have for the first time genetically altered a human embryo is drawing fire from some watchdog groups that say it's a step toward creating "designer babies." But an author of the s  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.  read more »

Scientists from Texas universities on Tuesday denounced what they called supernatural and religious teaching in public school science classrooms and voiced opposition to attempts to water down evolut  read more »

This article discusses not only the upcoming bill, but the non-destructive alternatives to Embryonic Stem Cell Research.

Yes, apes have more rights than small children. Can you say, "Logical Outcome"?

Those who worship a higher power often do so in different ways.  read more »

The debate over evolution is evolving.  read more »

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

Hopefully this will work out so th  read more »

"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.

Seven tiny collagen sequences were similar, so they must be of ancestral affiliation? More to the point, note that this is T-Rex collagen they studied. Collagen cannot survive fossilization. In other words, T-Rex collagen should be impossible to find unless the T-Rex is only thousands instead of millions of years old. Oops. Forgot to mention that they had to rework their theories about collagen decomposition when this was discovered because the Tyrannosaurus couldn't be that recent, despite evidence to the contrary.  read more »

In a study of Christian church members who approached their church for help with a personal or family member's diagnosed mental illness, researchers found that more than 32 percent were told by their  read more »

An eye-opening survey reveals widespread belief that divine intervention can revive dying patients.  read more »

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 »

The debate rages in Uganda whether a Christian couple can marry when both are from the same clan.

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 »