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  • The Roots of Religion

    Templeton Report Staff

    Where did religion come from? Robert Bellah ponders its evolutionary origins.
  • The Hodge Hill Prophecy

    Rod Dreher

    What's really behind the British riots?
  • A Conversation with Vlatko Vedral

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    What does it mean to call information the basis of reality?
  • Finding the Sacred in the Secular

    Heather Wax
    Can atheists be spiritual?
  • Inside the "Black Box" of Personhood

    Rod Dreher
    Notre Dame sociologist Christian Smith asks, "What is a person?"
  • The Lesson of SuperCooperators

    Heather Wax
    Why does altruism make evolutionary sense?
  • Asking 'Islam's Quantum Question'

    Rod Dreher
    Can science and Islam be reconciled? A conversation with Nidhal Guessoum.

Columns

  • Mark Vernon
    January 25, 2011

    The Return of Virtue Ethics

  • Christine Whelan
    January 20, 2011

    Generation Earn

  • Michael Shermer
    January 18, 2011

    The ‘Point’ is Beside the Point

  • Mark Vernon
    January 6, 2011

    Physics as Metaphysics

  • David Sloan Wilson
    January 4, 2011

    Rich Man, Poor Man

  • Alan Jacobs
    December 21, 2010

    Rethinking Innovation

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Blogs

  • A Note to Readers

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  • How Does the Public Move From Disagreement to Consensus?

    October 29, 2010 8:25 AM
  • When Do Children Develop Skepticism?

    October 28, 2010 7:28 AM
  • A New Center for the Study of Science in Muslim Societies at Hampshire College

    October 27, 2010 2:35 PM
  • The “Uncertainty” Effect

    October 27, 2010 9:41 AM
  • Is It Surprising That Our Brains Respond More to Those We’re Close With Than Those Similar to Us?

    October 27, 2010 7:46 AM

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