Ahead of the celebration of Independence Day, Edward Furton, publications director for The National Catholic Bioethics Center ...

In a new communications landscape that feasts on polarization, the science community needs to rethink how it engages society ...

In 1929, an astronomer named Edwin Hubble stood atop Mount Wilson in California, peering into the night sky. What he s ...

In 1921, William Bell Riley admonished his opponents that they should “cease from shoveling in dirt on living men,” for the ...

In March 1925, Tennessee became the first state in the country to ban the teaching of evolution in public school classrooms.

Shame on those who would disappear others from society, particularly in the name of a god they claim created all of us! They ...

Neurospirituality crosses multiple disciplines to study how and why the human brain has a sense of the divine. Evidence is ...

Their arguments were among the earliest—and most prominent—to land in court as “Modernists” and “Fundamentalists” battled over faith and science.

Do religion and science always have to be in conflict? Religion and science have had some famously messy fights, but do they always have to be in conflict? In this episode of Crash Course ...

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 ...

Science, of course, does not have the answer to every question. Science provides us with tools and means, and religion teaches us how to use them to the best advantage of all humanity.

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.