Read more of Bob Abernethy’s October 16, 2006 interview in Cambridge, Massachusetts with E.O. Wilson: Q: As briefly and as strongly as you can put it, what do you want all of us to do? A: I want us to … More →

November 17, 2006

Read an excerpt from THE CREATION: AN APPEAL TO SAVE LIFE ON EARTH by E.O. Wilson (Norton, 2006), written in the form of a letter to a Southern Baptist pastor: I’ve tried not to water down in any way the … More →

November 17, 2006

  Is God really there? Or does the search for the existence of a supernatural being, so pervasive in all cultures ever studied, represent a universal but groundless human longing for something outside ourselves to give meaning to a meaningless … More →

July 21, 2006

  BOB ABERNETHY: Several recent best-selling books have sharpened the old debate between some scientists and some religionists over creation, evolution and, among other issues, stem cell research. We want to re-run today a story we carried this past summer … More →

July 21, 2006

A government advisory committee recommended that 11- and 12-year-old girls be routinely vaccinated against a sexually transmitted virus that causes cervical cancer. The vaccine is most effective when it’s administered to girls before they become sexually active. But with the potential for premarital sex involved, the recommendation has been caught between science, politics and religion. More →

June 30, 2006

Read journalist Chris Herlinger’s report on a recent public forum on science and religion at New York’s American Museum of Natural History. More →

March 24, 2006

Evolution, the theory that all organisms descended from a common ancestor, is widely accepted as a cornerstone of biology. Kansas will now also permit other ideas, including intelligent design. No designer is mentioned, but critics say intelligent design is disguised creationism, a religious view. More →

November 11, 2005

Catholic leaders have often expressed their opposition to certain uses of science, such as anything that threatens human life. But the Church has no objection to basic scientific research itself — from it. That work is honored as trying to understand what God created — in the case of an observatory in Arizona, the entire visible universe. More →

June 3, 2005

Sister Mary Andrew Matesich is a nun, a scientist, a former college president, and now, a cancer patient who learned not only how to accept her disease but how to help others because of it. More →

November 12, 2004

  BOB ABERNETHY, anchor: The relationship between science and religion is one of the top interests of the John Templeton Foundation, which has just announced the winner of this year’s Templeton Prize of nearly a million dollars. He is Dr. … More →

March 15, 2002