God, He’s moody
In an interview with something to offend everyone, Robert Wright explains why religion has given us a fickle deity
Wednesday, Jun 24, 2009 10:24 AM UTC 106All Salon Atoms and Eden, Science
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Jane Goodall’s animal planet
In a surprising interview, the famous primatologist talks about her mystical experiences in the jungle and her ever-increasing passion for animal rights and cleaning up the "horrendous mess" of our environment.
Tuesday, Apr 14, 2009 10:38 AM UTC 35All Salon Atoms and Eden, Noble Beasts
God enough
We should see the ceaseless creativity of nature as sacred, argues biologist Stuart Kauffman, despite what Richard Dawkins might say.
Wednesday, Nov 19, 2008 11:40 AM UTC 164All Salon Atoms and Eden, Science
Religion is poetry
The beauties of religion need to be saved from both the true believers and the trendy atheists, argues compelling religious scholar James Carse.
Monday, Jul 21, 2008 11:21 AM UTC 426Entertainment Religion, Atoms and Eden
You are the river: An interview with Ken Wilber
The integral philosopher explains the difference between religion, New Age fads and the ultimate reality that traditional science can't touch.
Monday, Apr 28, 2008 10:49 AM UTC 177Life Religion, Atoms and Eden, Science
Susan Sontag’s final wish
She wanted hope, a reason to believe she would survive cancer. In a candid interview, her son, David Rieff, discusses his mother's battle to live and his struggle to hide the truth.
Wednesday, Feb 13, 2008 12:27 PM UTC 49Entertainment Middle East, Books
The atheist delusion
Theologian John Haught explains why science and God are not at odds, why Mike Huckabee worries him, and why Richard Dawkins and other "new atheists" are ignorant about religion.
Wednesday, Dec 19, 2007 12:08 AM UTC 656Entertainment Religion, Atoms and Eden, Science
Proud atheists
Steven Pinker and Rebecca Goldstein, America's brainiest couple, confess that belonging to one of America's most reviled subcultures doesn't mean they believe scientists can explain everything.
Monday, Oct 15, 2007 11:45 AM UTC 234Entertainment Iraq war, Atoms and Eden
The religious state of Islamic science
Turkish-American physicist Taner Edis explains why science in Muslim lands remains stuck in the past -- and why the Golden Age of Mesopotamia wasn't so golden after all.
Monday, Aug 13, 2007 12:30 PM UTC 68Entertainment Religion, Atoms and Eden
We are meant to be here
People are not the result of a cosmic accident, but of laws of the universe that grant our lives meaning and purpose, says physicist Paul Davies.
Tuesday, Jul 3, 2007 10:33 AM UTC 208Entertainment Atoms and Eden, Books
Manufacturing belief
The origin of religion is in our heads, explains developmental biologist Lewis Wolpert. First we figured out how to make tools, then created a supernatural being.
Tuesday, May 15, 2007 12:00 PM UTC 143Entertainment Atoms and Eden, Books
Gospel according to Judas
The recently unearthed Gospel of Judas "contradicts everything we know about Christianity," says religious historian Elaine Pagels.
Monday, Apr 2, 2007 12:45 PM UTC 282Entertainment Atoms and Eden, Books
The modern Muslim
Controversial scholar Tariq Ramadan explains why Mohammed had progressive views of women, why the Quran is a prescription for peace -- and why he is banned from Saudi Arabia and the U.S.
Tuesday, Feb 20, 2007 1:06 PM UTC 550Entertainment France, Religion, Atoms and Eden
God and gorillas
Anthropologist Barbara J. King explains what our distant cousins can tell us about religion and why it's OK for scientists to believe in God.
Wednesday, Jan 31, 2007 1:49 PM UTC 235Entertainment Religion, Atoms and Eden
Seeing the light — of science
Ronald Numbers -- a former Seventh-day Adventist and author of the definitive history of creationism -- discusses his break with the church, whether creationists are less intelligent and why Galileo wasn't really a martyr.
Tuesday, Jan 2, 2007 12:00 PM UTC 131Entertainment Atoms and Eden
Buddha on the brain
Ex-monk B. Alan Wallace explains what Buddhism can teach Western scientists, why reincarnation should be taken seriously and what it's like to study meditation with the Dalai Lama.
Monday, Nov 27, 2006 1:00 PM UTC 94Entertainment Religion, Atoms and Eden
The flying spaghetti monster
Why are we here on earth? To Richard Dawkins, that's a remarkably stupid question. In a heated interview, the famous biologist insists that religion is evil and God might as well be a children's fantasy.
Friday, Oct 13, 2006 12:15 PM UTC 288Entertainment Religion, Atoms and Eden
Divining the brain
Andrew Newberg discusses what happens in our brains during prayer, meditation and mystical visions. Yet understanding the brain, argues the neuroscientist, does not close the book on the nature of religious experience.
Wednesday, Sep 20, 2006 12:00 PM UTC 61Entertainment Religion, Atoms and Eden
The believer
Francis Collins -- head of the Human Genome Project -- discusses his conversion to evangelical Christianity, why scientists do not need to be atheists, and what C.S. Lewis has to do with it.
Monday, Aug 7, 2006 12:00 PM UTC 387Entertainment Religion, Atoms and Eden
The disbeliever
Sam Harris, author of "The End of Faith," on why religious moderates are worse than fundamentalists, 9/11 led us into a deranged holy war, and believers should be treated like alien-abduction kooks.
Friday, Jul 7, 2006 1:00 PM UTC 215Entertainment Religion, Atoms and Eden
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