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, ...

IT IS just over a decade since Richard Dawkins lit the blue touchpaper with his book The God Delusion. It introduced much of the world to the so-called new atheism – a forceful rejection of religion ...

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.

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 ...

On Thursday’s Now With Alex Wagner, host Alex Wagner asked conservative columnist S.E. Cupp to weigh in on a new report indicating that “the trust conservatives place in science has hit an all-time ...

Science is not just for secularists. And it’s not just for Democrats, either. Recent reports from the National Center for Science Education have helped make these points clear. Earlier this week, NCSE ...

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 ...

“We all looked at the same science, and the atheists were able to say, ‘I can be an atheist in this universe,’” and the Christians were able to say, ‘That just revealed to me God and all of his parts’ ...

While you might think that atheism is on the rise (and you’d be right), the 6 atheist scientists who now believe in God are proof that religion is still playing a major role today. You might think ...

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 ...