Neurotheology is an emerging discipline that delves into the historical battle between science and religion, now analyzed in the recent essay 'The Neurons of God'. What do Dostoevsky, his character ...

WHY GOD WON'T GO AWAY: SCIENCE AND THE BIOLOGY OF BELIEF Andrew Newberg, M.D., Eugene D'Aquili, M.D., and Vince Rause (Ballantine Books, 2001) Reviewed by Michael Shermer, Ph.D. God is puzzling.

Is God a singular, independent being? Or just an evolved projection of human's theory of what God should be? Slate's Jesse Bering finds himself asking these heady questions after an analysis of how ...

Today, we're diving deep into the intersection of faith, science, food, and body image. This is the big picture conversation -- where these themes overlap, so you can simply understand this connection ...

Although religious experience impacts more than 5.8 billion people worldwide, our understanding of the brain networks involved remains obscure. In a study published today in the journal Social ...