Category: Science and Religion: The End of a Beautiful Relationship?
Introduction
It was a great love-hate story, a truly grand narrative. Science and Religion, ever entangled yet estranged, always going in opposite directions yet returning to collide again and again. Somehow they just can’t stay away from each other. They have had a long history going on this way, and the drama won’t end any time …
Can the Brain Decide Whether God Exists?
Science studies nature, and our brains are part of nature. Brains naturally produce beliefs—lots of them. Some of those beliefs are about nature, and others are about God. God is unnatural, yet beliefs about God are natural. It’s a curious situation: why do natural brains produce beliefs about the supernatural? Brain scientists are working on …
Strong Believers Beware
Si comprehendis, non est Deus. (If you can understand it, it is not God.) —St. Augustine It is easy these days to feel marginalized if you do not believe in an Abrahamic God. When among such believers who know of or suspect my unbelief, I find myself ignoring comments and innuendo. And, coward that …
Scientists and Religious Faith
My focus in this article is not on science and religion in the abstract but on scientists and their particular religious views. In secular circles, mention of sc ientists and religious faith typically calls to mind prominent scientists who have been critical of religion: Richard Dawkins, Steven Weinberg, and Carl Sagan come to mind. Here …