The Gallup Center recently surveyed more than 90% of the global Muslim community about their opinions on a variety of topics, ranging from democracy to Islam to radicalism to women's rights. With nearly 40 Muslim countries represented, it is the largest ...

Albert Einstien wrote alot of essays outside of the realm of science that he's is famous for. Here he speaks about his understanding of God, the Judeo-Christian tradition, and our roles within society. "The most beautiful thing we can experience is the...

"On one side sat five neuroscientists, united in their belief that physicalprocesses in the brain can explain all the wonders of the mind, without appealto anything spiritual or nonphysical. Facing them sat dozens of Tibetan Buddhist monks in burgun...

For five years there has been an ongoing battle over the expansion and allowance of snowmaking at the Northern Arizona Snowbowl ski resort. But in a recent 9th Circuit Court decision, the 21 Native American tribes and environmental groups such as the Sie...

In an intellectual and personal adventure across India and Europe, Afghanistan and America, Pankaj Mishra, an Indian journalist and author of "An End to Suffering: The Buddha in the World," pursued the history and the meaning of the Buddha not as a r...

What gets you up in the morning?  What guides your actions in life?  The need to pay the bills?  An effort to make the world a better place?  The pursuit of happiness?   Here Ethan Nichtern from New York's Interdepence Project...

Adam Smith - An Excerpt from "The Theory of Moral Sentiments": The poor man's son, whom heaven in its anger has visited with ambition, when he begins to look around him, admires the condition of the rich. He finds the cottage of his father too small f...

In this episode of NPR's Fresh Air, Genetisist Francis Collins of the National Human Genome Project (which mapped out human DNA for the first time) speaks about reconciling his views as an Evangelical Christian with current finding is his field about evo...

Guy from London rants about the state of Islam in Europe and hypocritic Saudi Arabia. A little over the top but it gives some insight into the state of things in Europe.

"Opponents of evolution want to make a place for creationism by tearing down real science, but their arguments don't hold up"..."the following list rebuts some of the most common "scientific" arguments raised against evolution."