Science will never be able to study God. But scientists are getting ever closer to describing what happens in our brains when we think about God.
The idea to peek inside the brains of religious folks is not new, and it started the way many other brain studies did: by looking at brain damage. Starting in [...]
Charles Darwin’s 200th birthday, coinciding with the 150th anniversary of his famous book “The Origin of Species,” has riveted the science community. It’s fun to read major publications, like the journal Nature, and realize they’ve been planning their stories for ages. Social networks including Twitter and Facebook are abuzz with the celebration. It’s like an Olympic [...]
“And that’s a shame, because we need the gentleness of the people who seek to emulate Jesus’ love as we try to be stewards of this exquisite global creation.”
Welcome to the Behind the Science blog, which is meant to peer behind the scenes of some of the science stories I write for various media outlets, most often National Geographic News.
Let there be no implication that these media outlets have endorsed the content of these entries; in most cases, they haven’t. The point is [...]
