Co-authored by Lawrence Krauss

On April 13, Messiah College in Pennsylvania will be hosting a "Compassion Forum," an event at which Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton will sit on the same stage and talk about "faith, values, and other current issues." John McCain has been invited but has not yet...

Twelve weeks after launching our website, ScienceDebate2008.com, over 15,000 people -- most, but not all, involved in science, technology, or academia -- have signed on in support of our petition calling for a presidential debate on science and technology policy.

At the end of last week, we sent invitations...

Tonight on PBS, Nova is presenting a documentary about Kitzmiller v. Dover, the evolution versus intelligent design trial that took place in the fall of 2005. It is called "Judgment Day: Intelligent Design On Trial." I know the subject well, having written extensively about it, and the title is...

Pat Tillman, an extraordinarily square-jawed football player who gave up a lucrative professional life to go and fight for his country, was at first hailed as a hero by a military eager for good publicity. When it was discovered Tillman died as a result of "friendly fire" -- he was...

When I was a child growing up in Cambridge, England, our dining room contained a bookshelf. In it were numerous reference books, among them an Encyclopedia Britannica, the Oxford English dictionary, a Webster's dictionary, a Bible and a concordance, the complete works of Shakespeare and its concordance, a Dictionary...