Great minds on the big questions.

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• Why Believe in God? Because it is written …
  Sept. 30, 2006
  
• Is Mysticism Anti-Rational? No. Just a little squishy.
  Sept. 23, 2006
  
• What Can Atheists Have Faith In? Plenty if they're Buddhists.
  Sept. 16, 2006
  
• Moral Progress Seems built into history, believe it or not.
  Sept. 9, 2006
  
• Is Consciousness a Mystery? One of the greatest Darwinians of the 20th century thought so.
  Sept. 2, 2006
  
• Why Can't Theologians Describe God? Same reason physicists can't describe the physical.
  Aug. 26, 2006
  
• Isn't Quantum Physics Weird? Not weird enough to unsettle Daniel Dennett.
  Aug. 18, 2006
  
• How To Get Karma Points It's all about intention.
  Aug. 12, 2006
  
• Walking the Walk Karen Armstrong talks a lot about God, but does she believe in Him?
  Aug. 5, 2006
  
• Is Evolution a Religion? Edward O. Wilson on "intelligent design."
  July 29, 2006
  
• The One Wholesome Addiction (According to the Buddha, that is.)
  July 22, 2006
  
• Does Religion Strike You As Crazy? You should have seen it a few millenniums ago!
  July 15, 2006
  
• Was the Universe Meant for Us? Sure seems like a nice fit!
  July 8, 2006
  
• Envisioning God Just think of Jesus. Or justice … or …
  July 1, 2006
  
• The Muslim View of Human Nature (Remarkably like the Southern Baptist view!)
  June 24, 2006
  
• The Universe Is Alive Kind of takes the sting out of death, doesn't it?
  June 17, 2006
  
• Encountering the Divine Huston Smith has done it. Just listen.
  June 10, 2006
  
• God Is Like a Female Mammal A scientist/theologian struggles for metaphors.
  June 3, 2006
  
• What Would the Buddha Hear? Listening to music in the moment.
  May 27, 2006
  
• If If Feels Good, Believe It Why Freeman Dyson is religious.
  May 20, 2006
  
• Eastern, Unorthodox How the Christian God is like the Tao.
  May 13, 2006
  
• You Think You've Got Problems? Just imagine if you were the universe!
  May 6, 2006
  
• Would Extraterrestrials Have Ethics? Probably so, says Daniel Dennett.
  April 29, 2006
  
• Can Science Explain Everything? Francis Fukuyama on some puzzling features of reality.
  April 22, 2006
  
• Giving Up the Ghost How one great (and late) biologist left faith behind.
  April 15, 2006
  
• How Science Points to Spirit An Oxford theologian makes the case.
  April 8, 2006
  
• Why Is It Like Something To Be Alive? Even the great psychologist Steven Pinker is puzzled.
  April 1, 2006
  
• Is Evolution Evil? A biologist defends it.
  March 25, 2006
  
• What Was Before the Big Bang? An astronomer explains.
  March 18, 2006
  
• Seeing God in the Data A religious biologist describes religious experience.
  March 11, 2006
  
• You Don't Exist What the Buddhist "no-self" doctrine means.
  March 4, 2006
  
• The Problem With Pleasure A Buddhist explains what a trap it can be.
  Feb. 18, 2006
  
• Being Good Without God How secular humanist and famed zoologist E.O. Wilson avoids acting like an animal.
  Feb. 4, 2006
  
• Can't We All Just Get Along? Why the leading authority on the world's religions is pessimistic.
  Jan. 28, 2006
  
• To Exist Is To Suffer A physicist priest explains why.
  Jan. 21, 2006