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One hundred years after the Scopes trial, the culture war over evolution and creationism remains intense.
For nearly 500 years, priests and imams justified slavery on the basis of a misunderstood passage of the Bible.
Surrogacy can exploit women, but others may choose to be involved for altruistic reasons. A scholar points out that surrogacy’s ethical value is dependent upon the people and systems who use it.
Borman’s professionalism helped the risky Apollo 8 mission become a success.
Evolutionary geneticist Jenny Graves loves classical choral music, but grew tired of its biblical themes. So she set out to write an alternative based in science.
A roundup of The Conversation’s articles about this holy Christian season and its history.
Those who exclude any groups of people from God’s kingdom choose to ignore the teaching of Jesus.
This play asks: what if it was Adam who sent an inappropriate photograph to his former lover, Lilith?
Simchat Torah is about more than beginning to read the Torah all over again. It’s about the need to reexamine what we think we know, over and over again.
Animism describes religions in which humans are connected to the landscape around them but do not dominate it.
Two scholars of fundamentalism and creationism explain what they found when they visited the Ark Encounter, an evangelical theme park in Kentucky,
A Kentucky museum tells the history of the universe according to the Bible in an effort to debunk evolution. Its owner, the Christian group Answers in Genesis, promotes right-wing political causes.
Here are three lessons that former FBI Director James Comey, took from the 20th-century American Christian philosopher, Reinhold Niebuhr.
In countries that identify predominantly as Christian, scripture and its interpretations carry serious sociopolitical weight.
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