This is the fourth in a new series of posts on Science and Philosophy, featuring interviews with influential scientists and philosophers of science. Previous interviews featured Bas van Fraassen, ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. These scientists espouse a frequently derisive rhetoric on religion and the religious public. Dawkins, for example, has argued ...

Church attendance has been steadily falling in the U.S. and other developed countries for decades, causing a rise in people who tell pollsters that they are unaffiliated with any organized faith.

Is there a middle ground between “Young Earth” creationism and “There can be no gods” atheism? Yes, says Andy Fletcher, founder and president of Life, the Universe and Everything, a scientific ...

Many atheists think that their atheism is the product of rational thinking. They use arguments such as “I don’t believe in God, I believe in science” to explain that evidence and logic, rather than ...

Using a subtle, indirect measurement technique, psychology researchers have found that there are probably a lot more atheists (people who don't believe in God) in the U.S. than show up in telephone ...

What is the atheist moral code? We all know what the Christian and Jewish moral codes ask of its adherents. We also know that all of the evil committed by Jews and Christians was the result of ...