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In more than a dozen countries as far apart as Portugal and Russia, ‘Smith’ is the most popular occupational surname
High-level official LeClair suppressed her sexuality for decades. Now that she’s out, she’s speaking up.
Research calls into question the separation of church and state in the United States.
Michael Shermer responds to the discussion over his article, “Will Science Ever Solve the Mysteries of Consciousness, Free Will and God?”
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Some things in life just can’t be explained. And that’s okay.
A rabbi explains how religion and science don’t have to be in conflict.
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Physicist Alan Lightman sees something beyond, or even behind, the heavens.
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It may seem like the world’s going to hell in a hand basket, but the facts don’t support it.
Spirituality plays a different ballgame than science, so the language used in either of them doesn’t often match up to the other side. This, says religious teacher Rob Bell, creates a lot of conflicts.
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Robert Wright and Massimo Pigliucci discuss the challenges of scientism.
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Do we really need an imaginary guy-in-the-sky to tell us what’s right and wrong? Not anymore, says Skeptic Magazine’s Michael Shermer.
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Magical thinking has always run deep in America, but in the last 30 years things have begun to escalate. “Nutty fringe ideas” are making their way into the mainstream.
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Debunking the myth that Enlightenment-era pastors opposed modern science.
If you believe there is intelligent extraterrestrial life out there, have you ever stopped to wonder why?
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His guiding spirit Thomas helped the author make better financial decisions and take care of his health.
The agricultural revolution was one of the best things to happen to the human species, right? Wrong.
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A new study addresses the question, while also raising even more questions.
Celebrating the 50th anniversary of Robert Bellah’s essay “Civil Religion in America.”
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India is a vast land, rich in history, beauty, and great ideas. Here, we want to introduce you to ten great minds in Indian thought. These ten thinkers span thousands of years, include several religions, and more than a few fields of expertise.
From an evolutionary perspective, religious practices and rituals are a form of play.
The US is arguably the most scientifically and technologically advanced society in the world, and yet at the same time the most religious of Western societies.
Philosopher Tim Crane believes religion can be a rational, “intelligible human reaction to the mystery of the world.”
The U.S. has been steadily losing its religion for decades — but that trend might ramp up significantly in the years to come.
Pew Research also reports that 10 nations are outright hostile to religion.
In an age of bountiful data, there’s dark potential for how corporations and judicial systems could use private details to discriminate against innocent people.
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Einstein believed in the unseen—like gravitational waves, ripples in space and time. Now, we can see this, as shown by the 2017 Nobel Prize physics winners.