Film Claims We Need Illusions to Live

In the film Magic in the Moonlight (Woody Allen, 2014), a skeptical magician named Stanley Crawford meets Sophie Baker, an alleged spiritualist. Stanley ...

Science and Faith Both Offer Valid Explanations

Scientist Troy Van Voorhis, Professor of Chemistry at MIT, argues that faith and science both have their place in helping us understand how the universe ...

How to Define a Miracle

What is a miracle? Webster's dictionary defines a miracle as an "extraordinary event manifesting divine intervention in human affairs." More colorfully ...

Magazine Claims We Know Miracles Don't Happen

In a 2013 article in The New Yorker about faith and belief, Adam Gopnik made the following confident statement: "We know … that in the billions ...

Film About Stephen Hawking Is 'God-Haunted'

The great British physicist Stephen Hawking has emerged in recent years as a poster boy for atheism, especially in light of his heroic struggles against ...

Researchers Identify 'The Perception of Incongruity'

In 1949, researchers asked a group of students at Ivy League schools to perform a simple task: identify playing cards. There were just two catches. First, ...

The Rise of the Cynical TV 'Hero'

A new type of character has emerged in popular television—the hardened, cynical investigator who sees through everything and everyone and then speaks ...

Scientist Guesses Jesus Walked on Patch of Ice

Did Jesus really walk on water? Or maybe he just surfed on a patch of ice. That's the conclusion of a 2006 scientific article published in everyone's ...

Bill Maher Says 'Religion Must Die'

Comedian Bill Maher has made a career of attacking Christians. In his film Religulous, Maher offered up this complaint of religion in general and Christianity ...

Comedian Louis C.K. Says Atheism Is Illogical

On an episode of Saturday Night Live, the comedian Louis C.K. shared his beliefs about the impossibility of atheism:

I'm not religious. I don't know if ...