Two centuries ago, France's experiment with expelling God and worshipping Reason ended in a sea of blood.
The push to get religion out of public life is relentless. The resistance to such a foolish move must be relentless as well.
How DNA investigations led a philosopher to affirm a ‘creative intelligence’ at the origin of life.
Many scientists don't believe that science is the only religion in town.
Passionate tracts by the new missionaries of unbelief are selling like hotcakes. But are they rational?
A literary critic discerns pointers towards the transcendent in great works of imagination.
It is assumed that the West turned against religion and then lost interest in marriage and children - but there is evidence that the reverse could also be true.
Just when you thought philosophers couldn't get any more pessimistic, one of them surprises you.
A journalist and a neuroscientist maintain that morality and spirituality are more than electrical impulses in the brain.
Christiane Amanpour had a clear message in her three-part series on CNN: worshipping God creates scary people.
Despite her smile and cheerful confidence Mother Teresa felt inner desolation for years. What does this mean?
No, says a nuclear physicist. To understand why, you must be prepared to face the Fundamental Question of Philosophy: Why is there anything rather than nothing?
A campaign by eminent atheist Richard Dawkins to discredit religion makes little sense, says a Canadian ethicist.
It's time to take a closer look at the Enlightenment values which underpin much of modern thinking, says a British journalist in this interview.
Why does atheism get such a good press and religion such a bad one when, as a global survey shows, religious people outnumber atheists eleven to one?
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