A series of new experiments shows that analytic thinking can override intuitive assumptions, including those that underlie religious beliefPeople who are intuitive thinkers are more likely to be religious, but getting them to think analytically even in sub tle ways decreases the strength of their belief, according to a new study in Science

Critically-acclaimed author and evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins and world-renowned theoretical physicist and author Lawrence Krauss discuss biology, cosmology, religion, and a host of other topics at this event entitled 'Something for Nothing'. This video was recorded at The Australian National University on 10 April 2012

Over the past several decades, there’s been a stunning revolution in how we view the prospect of life on other planets. Starting with the Voyager missions in the 1970s, it became clear that the Solar System had a number of bodies that were geologically act ive. Evidence for oceans of liquid water and hints of Mars’ watery past soon followed

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I've been readingAttack of the Theocrats: How the Religious Right Harms Us All - and What We Can Do About It, by Sean Faircloth. As a book written in defence of secularism, it's of particular interest to me - especially since it has appeared at almost the same time as my ownFreedom of Religion and the Secular State, which deals with a similar topic

When I was a practicing Catholic, I often stretched my imagination by visioning my church not as a global oppressor of women but as a segmented community, “a church with in a church”, that derived its mandate not from the pulpit in Rome but from the roots of liberation theology. I spent many years at the altar of feminist theologians, honoring their articulation of the liberated experience

In the US, where just one member of Congress is openly atheist, the secular movement needs to 'come out'. And now is the timeReligionists and atheists debate at the Reason Rally on the National Mall, 24 March 2012 in Washington, DC. Photograph: Brendan Smi alowski/AFP/Getty Images