Editor’s Note: This coming school year, Tennessee public schools will be operating under a new law that prohibits the punishment of teachers for discussing the “scientific strengths and scientific weaknesses” of global warming, evolution and the chemical origins of life. Critics warn that the law will encourage teachers to introduce religious…[Read more]

I am a scientist. For most of my life, I have lived with the dictates of science: the physical world operates according to rational and mathematical laws, all phenomena have physical causes, all hypotheses must be tested against experiment. Yet I also believe there are things we take on faith, without physical proof and even [...]