A person's unconscious attitudes toward science and God may be fundamentally opposed, researchers report, depending on how religion and science are used to answer "ultimate" questions such as how the ...

Most Americans believe science and religion are incompatible, but a recent study suggests that scientific engagement can actually promote belief in God. Researchers from the Arizona State University ...

Traditionally, science has been the counterargument for the existence of a divine creator. However, French mathematicians Olivier Bonnassies and Michel-Yves Bollore now say that science 'has become ...

My son and I were talking today and he asked me the question a lot of 10-year-olds ask, "Do you believe in God?" I flashed back to when I was 10; my father and I were in the garage changing the brake ...

In recent decades, major scientific breakthroughs—in cosmology with the Big Bang theory, in quantum physics, and in neuroscience—have begun to shed new light on these mysteries. But do these ...

Only a modern theologian could interpret the middle finger that the New Atheists have raised to religion and religious believers as an invitation to dialogue. No ...

The pious young scientist had a question about human origins and the attention of one of the foremost geneticists in the world. Standing up in a crowded Hilton-hotel conference room in Alexandria, Va.

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American I should make it clear from the start that I ...