Barring women from being Catholic priests is not the result of sexism 2,000 years ago, it’s because women cannot fulfill a basic function of the priesthood, “standing in the place of Jesus,” a leading British Catholic thinker argued Monday.

Assuming that vegetarians and vegans—because of their underlying moral philosophies—show greater empathy towards animal suffering, it is very well possible that this enhanced empathy extends to other humans also.

Either these gentlemen are more ethically tone deaf than one can imagine, or they are sly beyond the dreams of foxes in an effort to redirect attention from the criminal behavior of clergy against children to their wrath over the ordination of women. Neither option is terribly appealing.

Who will protect Vrindavan from the onslaught business schemes, pollution, and general environmental apathy?

Monsanto’s herbicide that revolutionized weed control in the 1990s is facing its own worst enemy: the weeds are revolting against it.

Some adore the Templeton Foundation for funding research that no one else will, while some despise it for the very same reason, claiming that the effort to combine science and spirituality merely sullies the former.

Studies find that deterministic thinking leads to an increase in unethical behavior.

“We’re basically getting new life out of the computer,” J. Craig Venter says. “We started with a genetic code in the computer, wrote the ‘software,’ put it into the cell and transformed it biologically into a new species. We’re still stunned by it as a concept.”

Indian yogi’s claims to not having eaten or drank in seventy years are met with complete denial by some.

Can science prove the afterlife? A new study seeks to do just that by placing pictures in hospital rooms where only a disembodied entity would be able to see them. Will accurate accounts of the pictures prove the existence of the soul?

It’s science’s dirtiest secret: The “scientific method” of testing hypotheses by statistical analysis stands on a flimsy foundation.