The Race to Create Life” is the title of the lead article in the October, 1962, issue of Harper’s Magazine. “The synthesis of an organism has long been our goal,” state the authors of a recent article ...

Almost all the scriptures were written by men. As humans have a desire to live forever, religion provides attractive offers of life after death. Humans invented God, the superhuman, to answer all the ...

The pious young scientist had a question about human origins and the attention of one of the foremost geneticists in the world. Standing up in a crowded Hilton-hotel conference room in Alexandria, Va.

The percentage of adults who believe God played a role in creating the first humans reached a 40-year low in Gallup polling released Monday. Among those responding to the polling company’s latest ...