Rick Goldberg and Hadassah Head discuss the role of sacrifice in Judaism. >>Read More

From a biological (and biocultural) perspective, the strong intra-generational “reproductive advantage of religion(s)” is setting the decisive benchmark of evolutionary success. >>Read More

What does theology--as distinct from the scholarly study of religion--contribute to our understanding of religion from an evolutionary perspective? >>Read More

Georgia republican says science facts are lies straight from hell. >>Read More

The New Atheists believe that science replaces the claims about the world that religion makes — and therefore makes religion redundant. Some of them think that a whole new moral system should be based on science. That’s sounding more and more like religion itself to me. >>Read More

There are, very seldom, evolutionary books that are able to evoke the spirit of university lectures and seminaries debating the very frontiers of knowledge. “Reptiles with a Conscience” belongs to this rare third category and is worth a read by anyone interested in the evolutionary processes that shaped our moral feelings and religious traditions. >>Read More

Science is supposed to challenge this type of quasi-mystical subjective experience, to provide an antidote to it. The Higgs discovery, elucidating the constituents of existence itself, is even presented as a giant step towards the ultimate cure: a rational explanation for the Universe. >>Read More