This is the fourth in a new series of posts on Science and Philosophy, featuring interviews with influential scientists and philosophers of science. Previous interviews featured Bas van Fraassen, ...

IT IS just over a decade since Richard Dawkins lit the blue touchpaper with his book The God Delusion. It introduced much of the world to the so-called new atheism – a forceful rejection of religion ...

Church attendance has been steadily falling in the U.S. and other developed countries for decades, causing a rise in people who tell pollsters that they are unaffiliated with any organized faith.

Many atheists think that their atheism is the product of rational thinking. They use arguments such as "I don't believe in God, I believe in science" to explain that evidence and logic, rather than ...

“We all looked at the same science, and the atheists were able to say, ‘I can be an atheist in this universe,’” and the Christians were able to say, ‘That just revealed to me God and all of his parts’ ...

Discoveries in physics, astronomy and biology — from the Big Bang to DNA code — challenge science-based atheism and point to ...

Science is not just for secularists. And it’s not just for Democrats, either. Recent reports from the National Center for Science Education have helped make these points clear. Earlier this week, NCSE ...

Using a subtle, indirect measurement technique, psychology researchers have found that there are probably a lot more atheists (people who don't believe in God) in the U.S. than show up in telephone ...

NEW YORK — A British philosophy professor who has been a leading champion of atheism for more than five decades has changed his mind. He now believes in God — more or less — based on scientific ...

Journal Editorial Report: The week's best and worst from Kim Strassel, Jason Willick, Jillian Melchior and Dan Henninger. Images: AFP/Getty Images Composite: Mark Kelly Atheism’s central conceit is ...

While you might think that atheism is on the rise (and you’d be right), the 6 atheist scientists who now believe in God are proof that religion is still playing a major role today. You might think ...