Merrill Miller
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What Da Vinci Code Author’s Recent Lecture Gets Right & Wrong about Science & Religion
On November 10 author Dan Brown delivered the Penguin Annual Lecture in New Dehli, India, and again two days later in Mumbai. Known internationally... Read More
Do You Believe in Atheists Who Believe in God?
The definition of an atheist is someone who lacks a belief in any kind of deity. Alternately, an atheist could be defined as someone... Read More
Can a Priest Be an Atheist?
Can one be a priest and an atheist? That’s a question Religion News Service is asking after a survey revealed that two percent of... Read More
Do Religious Beliefs Completely Override Reason? This Study Says No.
“This is the body of Christ,” the pastor stated matter-of-factly in a confirmation class, a rite of passage that Lutheran teenagers undergo where they... Read More
The Ebola Epidemic: Someone Else’s Problem or a Call for Global Compassion?
Ebola is here! Despite repeated warnings from the World Health Organization (WHO) that the epidemic in West African countries required an international response in... Read More
Atheists and Aliens: Would the Existence of Extraterrestrials Mean the End of Religion?
In A Brief History of Time Professor Stephen Hawking asks, “…if the universe is really completely self-contained, having no boundary or edge, it would... Read More
Are You Openly Secular? Coalition Launches Campaign to Encourage Seculars to ‘Come Out’
For anyone who has ever needed to “come out” as a humanist, atheist or agnostic, the process can be daunting. The fear of being... Read More