If billions of people all around the world claim to believe in God, why is the world so messed up? That’s the central question David Nasser asks in this thought-provoking video. Born in Iran, David fled the country with his family in 1979 when revolution broke out. His life journey took him away from religion [...]

Profile on: Billy Diamond, the first Grand Chief of the Cree Grand Council.

Would you pass this quiz? America is full of religious people, but Americans know surprisingly little about religion.  In fact, many atheists and agnostics know more about world faiths than do believers. So concluded a recent Pew Research Center survey on religious knowledge in America.  For instance, Pew’s quiz revealed that only about half of [...]

Are religion and spirituality the same thing?

“All thinking men are atheists.” Ernest Hemingway, author “Atheism is so senseless and odious to mankind …” Sir Isaac Newton, physicist Are “all thinking men” really atheists as Hemingway asserted? If so, it would seem that religion and science would indeed be enemies.  However, history does not give us much support for this idea. Besides [...]

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Can Science Prove Religion?

Next: Examining Christianity with Science Did Julius Caesar ever live? Did William Shakespeare really write Hamlet? These questions are outside of the realm of scientific investigation. We cannot prove them by repeating these circumstances and observing them. Instead, we’re left to draw a conclusion, a verdict, based on the evidence. The same is true when it [...]

Are science and faith like oil and water? Some people seem to think so. We like to think that science is full of absolutes – that things are or are not.  There’s a saying that “reality is anything you can hit with a hammer” but that’s not true either.  There are all sorts of things [...]

A recent BBC “Have Your Say” question has generated hundreds of replies so far. This should come as little surprise, since it mentions two volatile issues: God and climate change. God will not intervene to prevent humanity from wreaking disastrous damage to the environment, the Archbishop of Canterbury has warned. What’s your reaction to this? [...]

I used to be a Christian; now I’m an atheist. What does it matter? My life hasn’t changed. Advice: Thank you for your insightful, honest question. There are really two parts to this question. First, there is an objective truth as to whether God does or does not exist. If God exists, there are ramifications [...]

Scientists in the US are working to confirm the plausibility of the circumstances described a story written over 3000 years ago. The biblical Old Testament book of Exodus describes an event that is often familiar to people even if they have never opened a Bible: Moses parting the Red Sea. Or rather, God doing so. [...]