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Jul 31, 2005

Scientists' Belief in God Varies Starkly by Discipline

About two-thirds of scientists believe in God, according to a new survey that uncovered stark differences based on the type of research they do. The study, along with another one released in June, would appear to debunk the oft-held notion that science is incompatible with religion. Those in the social...

Feb 28, 2005

Laser's Co-inventor Wins $1.5 Million Religion Prize

NEW YORK (AP) -- Charles Townes, co-inventor of the laser and a Nobel Prize-winner in physics, was named Wednesday as the recipient of a religion award billed as the world's richest annual prize. Townes, 89, a professor at the University of California, Berkeley, won the Templeton Prize for Progress Toward...

Sep 30, 2006

Vatican Visitors Can View World of the Dead

VATICAN CITY (AP) ─ Visitors to the Vatican soon will be able to descend into an ancient world of the dead, a newly unveiled necropolis that was a burial place for the rich and not-so-affluent during Roman imperial rule. The necropolis, which was unearthed three years ago during construction of...

Mar 31, 2006

Jesus Could Have Walked on Ice, Scientist Says

Rare conditions could have conspired to create hard-to-see ice on the Sea of Galilee that a person could have walked on back when Jesus is said to have walked on water, a scientist said today. The study, which examines a combination of favorable water and environmental conditions, proposes that Jesus...

Sep 30, 2007

Vatican Publishes Knights Templar Papers

VATICAN CITY (AP) -- It's not the Holy Grail, but for fans of The Da Vinci Code'' and its tantalizing story line about the Knights Templar, it could be the next best thing. Ignored for centuries and found in the Vatican secret archives in 2001, a parchment about the early...

Aug 31, 2007

Psychiatrists Least Religious Among Physicians

Psychiatrists are the least religious of all physicians, a nationwide survey reveals. The study, published in the September issue of the journal Psychiatric Services, also found that religious physicians are more likely to refer patients to a clergy person than a psychiatrist or psychologist. Something about psychiatry, perhaps its historical...

May 31, 2007

Science Not to Blame for Non-Religious Scientists

Scientists are less religious than the general population, a new study shows, but the reason has little to do with their study of science or academic pressures. The findings challenge notions that science is responsible for a lack of faith among researchers, indicating that household upbringing carries the biggest weight...

Oct 31, 2008

God and Evolution Can Co-exist, Scientist Says

NEW YORK — A scientist is going public with his Christian belief in God and acceptance of evolution, in the wake of the Dover trial and recent, high-profile scholarly writings that have highlighted the contradictions between religiosity and science. Karl W. Giberson, a physics professor at Eastern Nazarene College in...

Oct 31, 2008

Apocalyptic 'New Jerusalem' Sect Falling Apart

In Mexico's strange town called New Jerusalem, there's no freedom of religion. You can't play soccer, either. But John F. Kennedy is a saint, explains reporter Chris Hawley. With its spiritual leaders dying after 35 years of all this, things in New Jerusalem are getting weirder, Hawley wrote this week...

Apr 30, 2008

Neurologist Explores Music's Healing Power

NEW YORK (AP) - Noted neurologist Oliver Sacks has found common ground with the pastor of Harlem's Abyssinian Baptist Church: Both men believe in the healing power of music. Sacks, the best-selling author of Awakenings and The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, was to share the church...

Mar 31, 2008

Faith in Prayer Kills Children

Last month in Portland, Ore., Carl and Raylene Worthington's toddler Ava got sick with a blood infection and pneumonia. Both conditions were treatable with antibiotics, but unfortunately for little Ava, her parents belong to the Followers of Christ Church, some members of which believe that prayer can cure the sick....

Feb 28, 2009

Religious People Work Harder to Stall Death

When you're near death, how hard do you want doctors to work on keeping you alive? Would you want cardiopulmonary resuscitation in what might be your final days of a cancer death sentence? Is a ventilator the right way to go? Researchers recently posed these sorts of questions to 345...

Jan 31, 2009

Women More Religious Than Men

A new analysis of survey data finds women pray more often then men, are more likely to believe in God, and are more religious than men in a variety of other ways. The reasons, analysts say, could range from traditional mothering duties to the tendency of men to take risks...

Jul 31, 2010

13 Strange Things That Happened on Friday the 13th

Friday the 13th is synonymous with bad luck and superstitions — so much so that some people flat-out refuse to fly, make business deals or get married on this fateful day. As many as 21 million people in the United States are fearful of Friday the 13th, according to the...

Oct 31, 2011

Crusader's Arabic Inscription No Longer Lost in Translation

A rare Arabic inscription from the Crusades has been deciphered, with scientists finding the marble slab bears the name of the Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II, a colorful Christian ruler known for his tolerance of the Muslim world. Part of the inscription reads: 1229 of the Incarnation of our Lord...