Science & Religion Dialogue

3Q: Alan Lightman on Science, Religion, and Our Yearning for Absolute Knowledge

Lightman's new book, Searching for Stars on an Island in Maine, examines the tensions between belief and knowing.

MIT News

Speaking of Evolution, in Non-Threatening Tones

For two years, researchers from the Smithsonian traveled the country to discuss — calmly — the science of human evolution. Here’s why.

Undark

How Religion, Science Can Work Together

What happens when you bring together respected social scientists who for many years have gathered significant data on the relationship between science and religion? A humble dialogue offering new pathways to cooperative efforts on issues from evolution and climate change to eradicating disease.

Ahead of the Trend, ARDA

Science and Religion

Exploring the ways faith and religion intersect with science.

The Pulse, WHYY

Does Believing in God Make It Harder to Believe in Science?

There are lots of people who manage to do both, despite the assumptions our culture makes about the incompatibility of the two.

The Dallas Morning News

Religion Isn’t the Enemy of Science: It’s Been Inspiring Scientists for Centuries

Rethinking how we view the relationship between science and religion could help give scientific thinking the wider public support it needs.

The Conversation

Have Your Momos and Eat Them, Too

The situational flexibility of meat eating is part of Tibetan Buddhism itself.

Science

Elaine Howard Ecklund Wants to Dispel Myths Surrounding Religious Resistance to Science

Elaine Howard Ecklund’s work at Rice University focuses on what happens when the two ways of knowing — what Stephen Jay Gould famously called “non-overlapping magisteria” — come into contact.

The Cubit, Religion Dispatches

Deep Listening

A small group of scientists, scholars, writers, and religious leaders gathered to discuss the psychology of religion and spirituality.

Observations, Scientific American

Evangelicals’ Surprising View of Science and What It May Mean

A new book finds many religious Americans are quite willing to try to reconcile their starting assumptions about God with any scientific claims presented to them.

Religion News Service

Searching for the (Star) Light at the Vatican Observatory

Brother Guy Consolmagno once taught astronomy at Lafayette College. Now, he leads the Vatican’s centuries-old observatory at Castel Gandolfo.

The New York Times

What Religious People Really Think About Science

Rice University sociologist Elaine Howard Ecklund talks about her five-year study of how the devout synthesize scripture with science.

Think

Study: Latino Parents Worry About Impact of Science Education on Faith

Researchers hope the findings will spur a larger discussion about the link between religious beliefs and underrepresentation in STEM.

Houston Chronicle

Can Philosophy Clarify Science vs. Theology?

New interview series seeks answers.

Closer To Truth

Challenging Theological Doctrines

How does religious doctrine hold up to scientific advance? A new interview series asks experts.

Closer To Truth

Scientists, Theologians Ponder If Latest Biological Findings Are More Compatible With Religion

Exciting progress in biology in recent decades may be building up a third new phase in the scientific explanation of life, according to thinkers gathered at a University of Oxford conference.

Religion News Service

The Nature of Faith: Rebecca Goldstein and Alan Lightman in Conversation with Marcelo Gleiser

An evening where science, religion, the arts, and philosophy will jointly address some of our deepest questions.

Institute for Cross-Disciplinary Engagement

Atheists Should Embrace the Science of Religion

“Belief-ologists” are revealing how religion works. Belittling their work does nothing to further the secularists’ cause, but learning from it might.

New Scientist

Buddhism Is Not Just Compatible with Modern Cosmology, It Welcomes It

Some of this cosmologist’s most exuberant students are Tibetan monks in Dharamsala.

Nautilus

15 Questions About Science and Religion, Answered

More than a dozen cognitive scientists, including Tania Lombrozo, joined a discussion in April aimed to encourage a sophisticated, evidence-based look at the psychology behind science and religion.

13.7: Cosmos & Culture, NPR