Tag: Science

Despite considerable research showing that children of same-sex parents fare just as well as children with heterosexual parents, two papers — a review of existing studies and a new study — published June 10 in Elsevier’s Social Science Research, find insufficient data to draw any definitive conclusions.

Death, like love, is hard to describe. We know it when we see it, but when exactly is the moment of death?

Rosling, pointing to charts showing how human populations changed with technology and how without science the majority of a family’s children die, said it is naive to think that humanity can easily go backward in history.

Our own Nick Knisely, Dean of Trinity Cathedral in Pheonix, Arizona, talks about the breathless news reports that physicists were ready to announce that they’d discovered, at long last, the Higgs Boson – the so-called “God Particle.” It turns out that the actual announcement was not nearly as exciting.

Paul Wallace at Religion Dispatches picks his top ten peacemakers between religion and science.

The placebo effect is widely recognized and frequently utilized in modern medicine. People given a “sugar” pill but told it’s a powerful antidote to their

Asking questions and searching for answers is something that most scholars value. When your job is reconcile a literal Christianity with science, it’s work that

An Oxford study shows “people across many different cultures instinctively believe that some part of their mind, soul or spirit lives on after-death.”