“Religion and science are two quite different things and we need them both. Science takes things apart to see how they work. Religion puts things together to see what they mean.” More →

February 20, 2015 | 0 Comments

Read more of Bob Abernethy's interview with novelist Marilynne Robinson.

September 18, 2009 | Comments (5)

Read and watch excerpts from a debate last week at Georgetown University in Washington. The believer was Oxford University professor of historical theology, Alister McGrath, a Christian. The atheist was journalist and author Christopher Hitchens, who condemns religious belief as dangerous and juvenile. More →

October 19, 2007 | 0 Comments

Betty Rollin reports on atheistic authors Richard Dawkins and Sam Harris, and other outspoken atheists, including Julia Sweeney and her off-Broadway performance, “Letting Go of God.” More →

January 5, 2007 | Comments (3)

Read more of the November 17, 2006 R & E interview with Harvard professor Harvey Cox. More →

January 5, 2007 | Comments (4)

Read more of the November 18, 2006 R & E interview with Sam Harris, author of THE END OF FAITH and LETTER TO A CHRISTIAN NATION. More →

January 5, 2007 | Comments (3)

An estimated 4 percent of Americans, according to the Princeton Religious Research Center, call themselves atheist, or nonbelievers in God or a universal spirit. We know what they do not believe in, but what does inform their beliefs, and how do their communities regard them? More →

July 24, 1998 | 0 Comments