Other past studies have revealed “no scientifically discernible effects” for intercessory prayer for healing.
By Marla Milling @ Forbes
Other past studies have revealed “no scientifically discernible effects” for intercessory prayer for healing.
By Marla Milling @ Forbes
Matt Oram @ New Books Network (53:35)
As President John F. Kennedy said, we do such things not because they are easy, but because they are hard.
By Rhett Allain @ Wired
A review of Mark Noll’s The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind by Grant Wacker @ First Things.
By Nell Greenfieldboyce @ NPR
Scientists restore some function in the brains of dead pigs.
By Ruth Graham @ Slate
A new statement from the Southern Baptist Convention looks at A.I.’s ramifications for bias, the workplace, sex, and God.
By Michael Shermer @ Scientific American
The inverse square law trumps the law of attraction.
Religions Use Robots to Connect With the Public.
By Rebecca Heilweil @ The Wall Street Journal
~Frank Oppenheimer
A Conversation with the 2019 Templeton Prize winner, Marcelo Gleiser, that does not pull punches on the limits of science, the value of humility and the irrationality of nonbelief.
By Lee Billings @ Scientific American
By Marcus Woo @ Scientific American
Contrary to a popular hypothesis, pro-social religions didn’t kick-start complex social systems.
By Chris Ciaccia @ Fox News
Evidence of the solar system’s missing link.
By Matthew D. Johnson @ The Conversation
…there is clear and convincing evidence that birds of a feather flock together. For human beings, the attractiveness of similarity is so strong that it is found across cultures.
By Jonathan Merritt @ The Atlantic
If many evangelicals don’t trust public schools to teach their children about sex or science, why would they want those schools teaching scripture?
Geomagnetism experts are forced to update the World Magnetic Model which underlies all modern navigation, from ships at sea to Google maps on smartphones. The release of the updated model has been postponed due to the government shutdown.
By Alexandra Witze @ Nature
By Jerry Coyne @ The Conversation
In science, faith without evidence is a vice, while in religion it’s a virtue.