Higgs the cat is enjoying a catnip cigar in celebration the 2013 Nobel Prize just awarded to Peter Higgs and Francois Englert for the theory that predicted the recently-discovered Higgs Boson, which ...

In recent years a number of bestselling books have forcefully argued that belief in God can no longer be defended on rational or empirical grounds, and that the scientific worldview has rendered ...

I didn’t spend much time in Park Slope this past weekend, because on Saturday I was invited to discuss the “rise of atheism as a religious subcategory in publishing” at the Book Expo America (the book ...

Does quantum mechanics show a connection between the human mind and the cosmos? Are our brains tuned into a "cosmic consciousness" that pervades the universe enabling us to make our own reality? Do ...

Science is under attack. From wide-release films like What the Bleep Do We Know!? to a public force-feeding of Intelligent Design prattle, popular culture and religious groups ache to chip away at its ...

It was with great anticipation that I opened this book, searching for details of the scientific experiment that proved that God does not exist. What was the ...

I used to enjoy the fun little rants by the so-called New Atheists about how religion is the most horrible thing ever. No, seriously — that is their message, and that’s putting it mildly. “New Atheism ...

"God is dead," wrote Friedrich Nietzsche in a widely misunderstood epitaph. In the next (rarely quoted) passage Nietzsche continues: "And we killed him -- you and I." If Victor Stenger's new book God ...

ARCOLA – Victor John Stenger, 80, of Arcola passed away at 8:53 a.m. Tuesday (Sept. 11, 2012) at Mattoon Healthcare & Rehabilitation Center in Mattoon. Funeral services will be at 1:30 p.m. Saturday, ...