God

If you believe there is intelligent extraterrestrial life out there, have you ever stopped to wonder why?

Existentialism is great and all, but how can you really relate to the ideas if you don’t think God is dead? Luckily, we’ve got just the thing. 

Philosopher Tim Crane believes religion can be a rational, “intelligible human reaction to the mystery of the world.”

Religion as a belief system goes back hundreds of thousands of years. So why are so many of the religious peoples of today so focused on a supposed God that goes back only 5,000 years? The answer lies in how our brains work.

And thanks to Alvin Plantinga, they have a rational conversation.

The U.S. has been steadily losing its religion for decades — but that trend might ramp up significantly in the years to come.

Einstein believed in the unseen—like gravitational waves, ripples in space and time. Now, we can see this, as shown by the 2017 Nobel Prize physics winners.

In 1936, a school girl named Phyllis wrote a letter to Albert Einstein to ask whether a person could believe in both science and religion. He was quick to reply.

Hitler is commonly thought to have been an atheist, a claim that’s often used in debates about the perils of atheistic belief on a mass scale. But was he?

Richard Dawkins responds to the Alt-Right, Trump’s policies, and discusses the evil potential of ideology.

You have to be a little envious of those who have faith—they have a motivational force behind them that is near impossible to beat. What if there was a secular equivalent, wonders philosophy professor Sam Newlands.

This week, Bill Nye tackles one of the most complicated hypotheticals of all time.

What does Robert Sapolsky—an “utter, complete, atheist”—think about the persistence of magical thinking in our modern world?

Physics finds no trace of God so far—but does it matter?

Albert Einstein shared his thoughts on the meaning of life and his own spiritual views.

We are on the verge of something meaningful and incredible with emergent artificial intelligence, says Toni Lane Casserly. But which way will humanity steer it? As with any system, it’s up to us.

Researchers scan the brains of people having strong spiritual experiences.