A few weeks ago a man I met told me that he grew up in a big Catholic family, but once he started learning more about science as a teenager, he left Christianity behind. He couldn’t reconcile the ...

In the beginning, there was only silence and stillness—no earth, no sky, no stars, no life. From the boundless void (sun ...

Paul J. Schutz, is an assistant professor of religious studies at Santa Clara University. Thoughts are his own. In his famous 1967 essay, “The Historical Roots of Our Ecologic Crisis,” historian Lynn ...

Is our cosmos the whole kaboodle, or is it merely one among an infinite number of universes? Frederick Forsyth’s 1971 thriller The Day of the Jackal tells the story of a fiendishly clever assassin who ...

Depending on who you ask, you might hear the idea that the universe is billions of years old, was created several thousand years ago, or, for creationists, the universe was created by God. But one ...

Giving a great American poet his due. We live in a culture that has largely lost its poetry—probably the only culture in human history to do so. At the end of the 19th century, the public and private ...

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (WHNT) — When we think about the scientific theory of the creation of the universe, we often picture a massive explosion in association with the Big Bang theory, but that is not where ...

No left without a right. No up without a down. No inside without an outside. Opposites give each other meaning and are inextricably connected to each another. One of the great dualities or dichotomies ...