Science & Religion Dialogue

Science and Faith: Working Together for Good

Elaine Howard Ecklund shares on the relationship between science and faith.

Hope + Resilience, Psychology Today

What Buddhism and Science Can Teach Each Other — and Us — About the Universe

Amid trying times, the collaboration between Western science and Eastern philosophy provides numerous health benefits and a path to understanding the natural world.

The Conversation

The Secret History of Science and Religion: On the Origin of Humans

Nick Spencer examines the history of science and religion and questions the extent to which they have been in conflict with one another.

BBC Radio 4

The Secret History of Science and Religion: Rumours of War

Nick Spencer examines the history of science and religion and questions the extent to which they have been in conflict with one another.

BBC Radio 4

Tibetan Monks Meet Science Near the Roof of the World

Astronomical and cosmological questions get an airing in India’s Sikkim province in a program started 20 years ago by the Dalai Lama.

Scientific American

Paul Davies on the Origin of Life and the Evolution of Cancer

Physicist Paul Davies is interested in some of the biggest questions that we can ask. What is life? How did the universe begin? How will it end? And are we alone?

The Life Scientific, BBC Radio 4

Atheism Is Inconsistent with the Scientific Method, Prize-Winning Physicist Says

In conversation, the 2019 Templeton Prize winner does not pull punches on the limits of science, the value of humility, and the irrationality of nonbelief.

Scientific American

Religion vs. Science: What Religious People Really Think

A review of the book by Elaine Howard Ecklund and Christopher P. Scheitle.

Sociology of Religion

Physicist Marcelo Gleiser: ‘Science Does Not Kill God’

A theoretical physicist dedicated to demonstrating science and religion are not enemies.

AFP

Marcelo Gleiser Wins Templeton Prize for Quest to Confront ‘Mystery of Who We Are’

Marcelo Gleiser won the 2019 Templeton Prize for his work finding the common ground between science and spirituality.

NPR

Madrasa Discourses Equip Tomorrow’s Islamic Scholars With Scientific Literacy

A Notre Dame-based program brings young Islamic scholars into dialogue with modern intellectual currents.

Religion News Service

War Between Science and Religion Is Far From Inevitable

Religion has helped science, as well as hindered it.

The Conversation

Writer and Physicist Alan Lightman Finds Room for Science and Spirituality

An interview with the MIT astrophysicist and novelist.

The Christian Science Monitor

America’s Clergy Are Teaming Up With Scientists

Scientists and religious leaders joined forces to create programs on neuroscience, cosmology — and even some evolutionary science.

WIRED

Talking Science and Society at Church

Why scientists need to be part of the conversation.

Medium

Promoting Dialogue About the Biggest Science and Society Questions

A new guide shares strategies for bringing people together to nurture understanding, respect, and collaboration.

Medium

For Life’s Big Questions, Tibetan Buddhist Monks and Nuns Try a Scientific Approach

Professors from across the United States and elsewhere are traveling to three major Tibetan monastic universities in Southern India to train monastics in the philosophy of science, physics, biology, and neuroscience.

STAT

Must Science Conflict With Spirituality?

The astrophysicist and novelist Alan Lightman doesn’t think so. And his new book, Searching for Stars on an Island in Maine, explains why.

The New York Times

How Science Popularizers Use Religion’s Tools of Awe and Wonder to Pitch to Younger Generations That Have Abandoned Faith

Programs by Carl Sagan and Neil deGrasse Tyson have shown how deeply science is ‘enchanted’ by religion, according to new research presented in Regina.

National Post

A Scientist Stares Into Infinity and Finds Space for Spirituality

Alan Lightman on how to make space for both facts and spirituality.

PBS NewsHour

AAAS Extends Science in Theological Education Program

The American Association for the Advancement of Science is now expanding the initiative to advance understanding of science and technology across the religious community to as many as 35 seminaries over the next 5 years.

Science