In their absence (for now, before the Machine God is unveiled or the U.F.O.s descend), the reasonable religious conclusion has to be that skepticism no less than suffering belongs to the divine plan, ...

Analysis of our polls and other data shows no clear evidence of a religious revival among young adults. Read more about ...

Half of the world’s population lives in just seven countries. But some of the world’s religious groups are even more ...

During the 1240s, Richard Fishacre, a Dominican friar at Oxford University, used his knowledge of light and color to show that the stars and planets are made of the same elements found here on Earth.

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

“Does God exist?” is a question of science and reason, not faith and belief, say Olivier Bonnassies and Michel-Yves Bolloré. The two Frenchmen, coauthors of God, the Science, the Evidence: The Dawn of ...

Religious identity is fading in many countries. From 2010 to 2020, the share of the population that was affiliated with any religion dropped at least 5 percentage points in 35 countries, according to ...

Is climate science actually a religion? The Trump administration would like you to think so. Earlier this year, Lee Zeldin, Trump’s administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, announced a ...

Americans who are lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender (LGBT) tend to be less religious than those who are not LGBT. In addition, adults who are lesbian, gay or bisexual have more negative views than ...

This column is written for fundamentalist conservatives. For the rest of you, please continue reading to understand a major issue in today’s political and religious spheres. Who was Galileo Galilei ...

Like the artist, the scientist is a lover of nature. Just as the artist is restricted only by his imagination and his facility with his chisel or brush, the scientist is restricted only by his ...

This summer marks the 100th anniversary of the Scopes Trial. On July 21, 1925, a jury in Dayton, Tenn., convicted John Scopes, a high school science teacher, of violating the state’s Butler Act, which ...