Charles Darwin and Gregor Mendel were contemporaries, but did they know of each other’s work? There is clear evidence that Mendel read “The Origin of Species,'' and mounting evidence that Darwin had heard of Mendel’s work.

The name of Gregor Mendel is inescapably linked to “genetics.” 

Since its founding in 1972, the Templeton Prize has honored 17 scientists, 7 opinion leaders, 16 religious leaders, and 7 theologians/philosophers.

David H. Levy’s bio on the Vatican Observatory website declares that he is “one of the most successful comet discoverers in history.” 

Is atheism inconsistent with the scientific method? A prize winning physicist’s answer may surprise you.

Fathers will get gifts and have special meals prepared for them this coming Sunday and rightly so. It might add to the celebrations to recall the tale William Bragg, a father from history whose talent, character, and influence earned both him and his son, Lawrence, a Nobel Prize in Physics.

The new science of forgiveness reveals the positive physiological effects that forgiveness brings to the human person: it can reduce stress, anxiety, and the incidence of illness and disease.

[T]hose who would put up a watertight barrier between science and religion miss a very important point. Science and religion do intersect…. in the human being who is the scientist, in the human being whose ultimate motivations and yearnings are, overtly or not, religious. -Br. Guy Consolmogno

Many atheists are of the opinion that you cannot be a good scientist if you are deluded by religious faith.