The Case for Treating Near-Death Experiences Like Acid Trips
Heavenly jaunts aren’t the only kind of near-death experience.
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Texas Textbook Massacre
While the impact on the actual writing of textbooks may not be that dire the Texas Board of Education is clearly rewriting history to fit a conservative agenda and a Christian dominant worldview. Plus: The Ten Most Egregious Proposed Changes to the Social Studies Curriculum.
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Does Evolution Favor Religion?
David Sloan Wilson is a biologist who claims that the so-called “selfish” gene is a myth. What if we have evolved to do what’s best not for ourselves, but for the groups we live in? The implications for religion, the ultimate social organism, are huge.
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Shopping for Your Kids, Bioethically Speaking
Questions about the ethics of surrogacy span biology, psychology, class, and the law—and it’s not even clear where the authority to answer these questions might lie.
Read MoreA Response to Religion and Science: Toward a Postmodern Truce
In one of this week’s features, eminent scholar Philip Clayton proposes that we are entering a new stage in the tangle between religion and science. Professor Robert Tapp responds.
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Darwin in Rome: Burden of Diversity, Mystery of Time
Two current exhibits in Rome hint at the disturbing subtext of Darwin’s theories and the root of religious opposition to them.
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What Does Darwin Mean to You?
An RD columnist and biologist asks a poet, a public health expert, and an evolutionary biologist how Darwin affects their beliefs.
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Denying Darwin: Another Peculiar American Institution
In this dispatch from a British conference on science and the public interest, author Lauri Lebo revisits American attitudes toward Darwin from the perspective of our neighbors across the pond.
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Five Things We Can Learn From Creationists
On the occasion of Darwin’s birthday, a toast to the enduring spirit of “the other side” of the Pandora’s Box opened by his remarkable insight.
Read MoreDouble Helix: Queer Science
What the science of homosexuality tells us—and what it doesn’t.
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