When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. The James Webb Space Telescope's view of the iconic Pillars of Creation, famous features within ...

For decades physicists have been perplexed about why our cosmos appears to have been precisely tuned to foster intelligent life. It is widely thought that if the values of certain physical parameters, ...

Cosmologist Fred Hoyle, a contemporary of Father George Lemaître — the Catholic priest who discovered and identified the Big Bang — was an atheist until his studies of the universe made him realize ...

I like the one where believers feel God plants fake evidence (like some bad cop!)..just to test our faith. Click to expand... Terry Pratchett's Strata sort of touched on this idea by his protagonists ...

According to Tom McKone (“Science, religion or both?”), “science is all about evidence, asking questions, collecting objective information, and drawing conclusions. It can take us pretty far, but it d ...

Physicists have long grappled with the question of why the universe was able to support the evolution of intelligent life. The values of the many forces and particles, represented by some 30 so-called ...

I have been waiting for a letter like Mike Lawrence’s to appear here(Letters, 22 April). The sequence – the trick– used to evolve the wondrous outcome of ...

First, the Earth turns out to be a middling planet that's not at the centre of the universe revolving around it. Then, the Sun is just a middling star that's not at the centre of the universe. Then, ...