Ever wonder what’s with all that God business? Pascal Boyer offers some answers in Religion Explained: The Evolutionary Origins of Religious Thought (Basic Books). Mr. Boyer, a professor of collective ...
My work is at a nexus between evolutionary psychology and the psychology of religion. I often wonder things like why religions evolved different food practices and why they have different religious ...
Q: If one accepts Darwinian evolution, how can one truly reconcile that theory with religion as practiced by most Americans? Even if evolution doesn't conflict with the existence of a God, it does ...
Robert Shedinger will discuss his work around Darwinian skepticism on Oct. 3. What happens when a professor of religion looks into the scientific literature of evolution biology? That was for Robert ...
When science teachers in a small Pennsylvania town were asked last month to read a statement to their classes that introduced students to the concept of “intelligent design,” they refused, citing ...
Linnaeus's Systema Naturae charts life. Swedish botanist Carl von Linne, writing under the Latin name Linnaeus, attempts to classify all life on Earth. He publishes the first edition of Systema ...
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — One hundred years ago, a public high school teacher stood trial in Dayton, Tennessee, for teaching human evolution. His nation is still feeling the reverberations today. The ...