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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 ...

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 ...

In the past four decades, American views on the origins of human life have significantly shifted, according to a new Gallup poll. The survey, conducted from May 1-23, shows that fewer Americans now ...

Conceptions of individual rights that have guided modern civilization are rooted in a idea with biblical origins.

Now, let's get started! Throughout the Bible, weakness is shown as a part of human nature. While we experience weakness, we learn to rely on and trust God. Then, He can guide us to use the faith we ...

Arguably the greatest scientific mind on the planet tackles universal questions. Sept. 7, 2010— -- "One can't prove that God doesn't exist," professor Stephen Hawking told ABC News. "But science ...