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Via Futurity : As we age, we often rely more—not less—on supernatural explanations for major life events, such as death and illness, resea...

At least six HIV patients have died in Britain after their evangelical church leader told them they were cured and no longer needed treatme...

Science writer and historian Michael Shermer isn't afraid to make some generalizations about people and their political ideologies. We ...

Everett with a Paraha tribesman Many people don't understand what life would be like without religion. Those who do not subscribe to...

via Calamities of Nature : The United States is an odd bird, clearly. This graph reminded me of a post on PZ Myers' Pharyngula blog i...

Newly released research by the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at the University of Washington shows that women are dyin...

A new study from Duke University Medical Center suggests that mainline Protestants have larger brains than born-again Christians, Catholics...

A new study reveals that college students who believe in a merciful, caring god are more likely to cheat than those who believe in a wrathf...

A new study , by Dr Elissaios Papyrakis at the University of East Anglia and Dr Geethanjali Selvaretnam from the University of St Andrews ...

I ran across two articles today about the challenges religions face in an evolving modern world, with both asking, in some degree, whether o...