As the West becomes more and more secular, and the discoveries of evolutionary biology and cosmology shrink the boundaries of faith, the claims that science and religion are compatible grow louder. If ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Though they both attempt to explain the world, religion and science are essentially opposites.

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 ...

While research indicates opinions about whether science and religion can overlap are changing, white men are among those "most likely" to hold "a negative view" on the topic, according to a study ...

Faced with a range of serious patient reactions to the COVID-19 disease, doctors and nurses have sometimes struggled to find viable treatment options. But when we examine faith-based responses to the ...

For centuries there has been tension—in churches, the academies, and the public square—between science and religion. Each makes truth claims and addresses essential questions. Science looks at the ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American When the Black Death spread across Europe ...

RELIGION and Science — it is a difficult subject, not one that is easy to discuss fully and frankly without arousing angry emotions or bruising intimate and sacred feelings. Yet the task is one which ...

Leon R. Kass, M.D. Let me first restate the gist of my long, complicated, and yet very incomplete argument concerning the state of the age-old tension between modern science and biblical religion. I ...