For the past 20 years, Elaine Howard Ecklund has studied scientists’ attitudes towards religion. What she’s found, through more than 40,000 surveys and nearly 2,500 confidential interviews, is that ...

Goshen College will host its 25th annual Conference on Religion and Science on March 6-8, featuring keynote speaker Wesley J. Wildman, professor of philosophy, theology and ethics and of ...

Religion and science have a reputation for conflict. Religious institutions have long viewed scientific observation and discovery as threats to their authority, and the scientific community has long ...

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 ...

Gone are the days when the protagonist, Robert Langdon, was sent off on a globe-trotting adventure thriller. In the latest title, Langdon seems to have a less important role in the narrative, and his ...

Research on the religious lives of scientists focuses mainly on U.S. scientists. Drawing on 115 interviews with UK biologists and physicists collected between 2011 and 2014, we move beyond to examine ...

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 ...

Magisteria: The Entangled Histories of Science and Religion; By Nicholas Spencer; Oneworld Publications; 480 pp., $32.00 It’s also largely, albeit not entirely, apocryphal. Far from being at each ...

There is, however, a lot of nuance buried in the survey’s results. Here are some interesting numbers from the analysis: overall, 59 percent of respondents said that science and religion are generally ...

The study of the psychology of religion has become a domain of active research following the pioneering work of psychologist and philosopher William James, whose book The Varieties of Religious ...

“Fringe”, “weird” and “unthinkable” are perfectly acceptable descriptors any science writer might use when rightfully denouncing some hare-brained professor’s paper that suggests, for instance, the ...

Over the past several months The Scientist has provided a forum for a debate purportedly on the compatibility of science and religion, although in fact the discussion has been limited to the dualistic ...