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August 2021

August 31, 2021

Faith and the Evolutionary Predicament

The "scientific image" of humans offered by evolutionary biology is cold, impersonal, alienating…and objective. But...

February 2019

February 22, 2019

Religion, Postmodernism, and Science™: Frenemies

Religion, science, and postmodernism are usually seen as enemies. But each of these ideologies holds...

January 2019

January 23, 2019

What Is Postmodernism? And Why Does It Matter for Science?

We're living in a post-truth era. Is postmodernism to blame, as famous philosopher Daniel Dennett...

March 2018

March 15, 2018

How Religion and Science Are Like Different Cultures

I have a new article up at Orbiter Magazine about the relationship between religion and...

July 2017

July 18, 2017

Call for fellows: Sinai and Synapses

A few years ago, out of the blue, a rabbi named Geoff Mitelman wrote me...

May 2017

May 22, 2017

Science and religion really are in conflict, people

The culture of science breaks ties with the past, while religion cherishes them. So for...

January 2017

January 14, 2017

Trump shows why Rationalia would fail

Some think we should live in Rationalia. But Donald Trump shows us what a world...

February 2016

February 23, 2016

No space for God of the gaps

Scientists rudely keep uncovering more and more reasons for mysterious phenomena. That's why the god...

August 2015

August 11, 2015

Reason™ is not going to save the world

Should we be all rational, all the time? Not if we want the planet to...

March 2015

March 16, 2015

Why the religion-science dialogue needs secular religious studies

Secular religious studies could add vibrant insight to a dialogue whose main purpose is to...

January 2015

January 07, 2015

How separate are science and religion, anyway?

Eric Metaxas’s "scientific" argument for God makes religion too literal, placing it squarely in science’s...

July 2014

July 14, 2014

The Wave of the Future: Experimental Religious Studies

Ted Slingerland's work at UBC-Vancouver shows that the scientific study of religion has undergone a...

February 2014

February 24, 2014

An historian’s call to understand and engage creationists

We can no longer pretend that the disagreement about the origin of species is only...

February 19, 2014

Sinai and Synapses: A video about studying religion

Together with my friend and colleague Tim Maness, I made a couple of videos last...

June 2013

June 25, 2013

Ritual bypasses conscious cognition

Researchers from Denmark and New Zealand claim that ritual allows cultures to transmit knowledge by...

June 08, 2013

Over generations, religion shapes genetics

Research from a multinational team shows that religion has affected the ways that genes are...

May 2013

May 17, 2013

Why the Templeton Foundation Is a Darn Good Thing

Physicist Sean Carroll recently made a splash across the Internet by proclaiming that he'll never...

April 2013

April 22, 2013

How the brain escapes the self

Research from the University of Missouri shows that reduced functioning in the right parietal cortex...

March 2013

March 22, 2013

Psychology and the religion-science conflict: Part 2

Having discovered how everyday people handle the so-called “religion-science” conflict, psychologists Cristine Legare (University of...

March 18, 2013

Psychology and the religion-science conflict: Part 1

Studying the religion-science conflict empirically, psychologists Cristine Legare (University of Texas at Austin) and Aku...

February 2013

February 25, 2013

An evidence-based rethinking of the religion-science conflict

Research by sociologist John Evans (University of California, San Diego) concludes that (1) Christians know...

January 2013

January 04, 2013

Interview: Michael Ruse on Evolution, Creationism, and Religion

Daniel Ansted, contributor to ScienceOnReligion.org, recently conducted an interview with his former mentor and well-known...

December 2012

December 13, 2012

Why atheist scientists bring their children to church

Sociologists Elaine Ecklund and Kristen Lee found that some atheist scientists bring their children to...

October 2012

October 02, 2012

Patheos Book Discussion: Seven Glorious Days

Can scientific and religious accounts of cosmic creation be reconciled? Karl W. Giberson thinks they...

September 2012

September 14, 2012

Where does religious doubt come from? The forebrain

Why do we doubt our religious beliefs? New research from the University of Iowa shows...

June 2012

June 18, 2012

Religion-science reporting: We need to do better

A new research study from the Bay Area has been misreported throughout the Internet, falsely...

May 2012

May 19, 2012

Few scientists see science in conflict with religion

Do scientists actually think that religion is all bunk? Sociologist Elaine Eklund has done the...

April 2012

April 21, 2012

God spot in the brain? More like God spots

Nicholas C. DiDonato Neurologists have long wondered whether a particular part of the brain can...

March 2012

March 10, 2012

Mountains and mysticism

Connor Wood Religions make some pretty outrageous claims. Many traditions assert that angels have visited...

March 03, 2012

Why the feud between Darwin and religion?

Connor Wood In 2009, the world marked the 200th anniversary of the birth of Charles...