Would Alien Life & Human Theology Mix?

Does Prayer Really Heal?
The life and work of Dr. Elisabeth Targ

Attack of the Bad Sci-Fi
Why George Lucas's vision of cloning doesn't make sense--even in the sci-fi world. By Orson Scott Card

An Eye for an Eye: Organ Donation
Some Should Get Special Treatment by Joseph Telushkin
It's Probably Not Against Your Religion by Gregg Easterbrook
Donate One, Get One Free: One hospital's experiment

Prescription: Prayer
Should doctors encourage patients to participate in spiritual activities? By Dale Matthews

Biochemist-Priest Wins Templeton Prize

The God Spot
Are those who see visions and talk with God holy or sick?

A God Beyond Time
What came before the Big Bang? By Paul Davies

Designed to Love
Three M.D.'s on why we need more human contact and more emotion

Mormon Sci-Fi Writers

Saying Thanks
Good manners, good health

No Escaping the Pain
RU-486 is supposed to get us to the next phase of the abortion debate. Not so fast
By Frederica Mathewes-Green
9/28/2000

A Moral Precedent for the Siamese Twins Case
In 1977, Dr. Koop and Orthodox Jewish parents faced the agonizing choice that two Catholic parents face in Britain today
By Gregg Easterbrook
9/15/2000

In Search of Other Worlds
They're there, but the news Is not encouraging
By Gregg Easterbrook
8/30/2000

How Loud Was the Big Bang?
The quantum physics of answering machines and other humorous mysteries of science
By Gregg Easterbrook
8/20/2000

Would You Baptize an Extraterrestrial?
A Jesuit priest says the discovery of life elsewhere in the universe would pose no problem for religion
By Brother Guy Consolmagno
7/31/2000

The Dawn of a Second Human Species
An excerpt from 'The Sun, the Genome and the Internet: Tools of Scientific Revolution'
By Freeman Dyson
7/24/2000

The Human Genome and the Inconvenient Soul
The genome map does not a human make
by Orson Scott Card
7/24/2000

The Battle for Genetic Mastery
Are we ready to manage who we are?
by Gregg Easterbrook
7/24/2000

The Scopes Trial, Take Two
A fictional account of how the century's most famous trial would play out today
by Gregg Easterbrook
7/8/2000

Kansas Against Darwin: What Happened?
A brief summary of the school board's decision--and the fallout. Plus: A complete package of Kansas school board documents and opinion articles.
by Gregg Easterbrook
7/7/2000

The Human Genome Is Mapped--Now What?
by Gregg Easterbrook
6/26/2000

Science vs. Religion?
Francis Collins, lead Human Genome researcher, sees no conflict
By Gregg Easterbrook
6/26/2000

Life: Mechanical or Miracle?
Scientists who use the word "machine" to describe humans aren't doing anyone a favor, says the author of a new book
6/13/2000
by Gregg Easterbrook

Mind, Meet Body
A new book by a medical researcher argues that there exist tangible connections among emotions, beliefs and health
5/31/2000
by Gregg Easterbrook

Hamburger Helper
For those who don't eat meat because of the violent way animals are slaughtered, science may soon provide an alternative
5/22/2000
by Gregg Easterbrook

Teens Take on the Creationism Debate
By Terence Minerbrook, Sean Colenso-Semple, and Michael Shoretz
5/15/2000

It Came from Outer Space!
How was the spark of biology lit? Increasingly, scientists wonder if life originated in space.
5/9/2000
by Gregg Easterbrook

Coming Soon to a Cell Near You: Genetic Engineering
Genetic advances are coming faster than governments and religious groups seem to realize--and no one has a plan
5/8/2000
by Gregg Easterbrook

UFO Believers Struggle with Religious Implications of Alien Life

It's Not All Relative
Einstein's Theory of Relativity is widely--but mistakenly--understood to assert that nothing is definitively true
4/27/2000
by Gregg Easterbrook

Attack of the Killer Robots
Why are science-fiction writers the only ones asking the big questions about technology?
4/8/2000
by Roberto Rivera

What Communion Hath Jerusalem With Silicon Valley?
At a meeting of tech gurus, moral and spiritual questions raise their ugly heads
4/8/2000
by Donald Lattin

Bill Joy, Killjoy
What's so scary about the 21st century?
4/8/2000
by Robert Wright

Honey, I Misplaced the Universe
Science can't find 90% of the cosmos. This "missing mass" problem may hold clues to the Big Bang and to the plane of the spirit.
03/29/3000
by Gregg Easterbrook

The Pope's Apology... to Scientists
It's the Vatican's Turn to Recant. Scientists censured in the past are being posthumously redeemed.
03/03/2000
by Gregg Easterbrook

Mega-Blast from the Past
Hubble Highlight
02/27/2000
Gregg Easterbrook

The View Towards Infinity
Four centuries ago, an Italian 'heretic' imagined an infinite cosmos. Increasingly, it appears he was right.
02/24/2000
by Charles L. Harper, Jr.

Good Guys Finish First
In a remarkable new book, Robert Wright contends that most human interactions have had 'nonzero' or 'win-win' outcomes.
02/24/2000
by Gregg Easterbrook

Double-Dealing in Darwin
Some scientists' total devotion to Darwinism--and insistence that evolution answers all questions and other views of creation answer none--seem an awful lot like a religion.
01/24/2000
by Michael Ruse

Really, Really Far-Flung
Perhaps intergalactic distance is simply the result of physics, or perhaps it reflects preternatural logic.
01/12/2000
by Gregg Easterbrook

The Misguided Search for the Star of Bethlehem
Was it a supernova? A falling star? It really doesn't matter.
01/02/1999
by Marcus Borg

Star of Wonder
Is the star of Bethlehem now a pulsar?
01/02/1999
by Gregg Easterbrook

The Scopes Trial
01/02/2000

• The Scopes Monkey Trial
  Did you know that 'creationism' was never mentioned at the Scopes Trial? There's a lot about the trial you may not know.
  by Gregg Easterbrook
• The Scopes Trial Versus 'Inherit the Wind'
  An ill wind? The movie's inaccuracies have perpetuated stereotypes.
  by Gregg Easterbrook
• Clarence Darrow's examination of William Jennings Bryan at the 1925 Scopes trial
  
• Faith of Our Fathers
  William Jennings Bryan's summation of the trial.
  
• 'We stand with progress'
  Defense attorney Dudley Malone's exhortation for freedom of speech.

Scientific Semi-Belief
Scientists Still Keeping the Faith: Comparing Scientists in 1916 and 1996.
12/30/1999
by Edward J. Larson and Larry Witham

Finding a Common Language of Awe
In this area, believers will challenge science, scientists will challenge belief, and both will seek areas of consensus.
12/29/1999
by Gregg Easterbrook