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Three Physicists on Religion
The online bookmaker Paddy Power currently offers 100 to 1 odds that the Large Hadron Collider, the world’s most...
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Ha! Philosophy of Science in the Comedy Club
Times Square and New York City were right outside. I was on the stage talking about the difficulty of...
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Solving Big Problems
We can best work toward addressing and solving the Big Problems related to food, population, water, energy, the environment,...
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Explore Big History
Big History seeks to evoke in you an appreciation for the immensity of science and a longing for the...
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Peak Humanity
Environmentalists might applaud a planet at the turn of the next century with 2 billion fewer people than today....
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Climates Change!
What of human civilization would survive on a much-transformed planet, as some day it surely will be? Our best...
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NSoR 0: Introduction
What does it mean to take a scientific approach to the study of religion? Does a scientific study of...
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NSoR 1: The Challenge of Comparative Religion
There is more functional diversity within a great tradition than between great traditions.
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NSoR 2: The Old Sciences of Religion
Early social theorists on religion all used some version of Marx's base-superstructure model of causation, though they may not...
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NSoR 3: The Economics of Religion
An excerpt from Chapter 3 of The New Sciences of Religion: Exploring Spirituality from the Outside In and Bottom...