In mediaeval Sanskrit literature (kavya), we often find similar sentiments being echoed with men complaining about the faithless courtesan ...

There was already a word in Sanskrit for one who's beyond all these meandering issues. Like the Buddha, he's iish-paran(g)mukh. The Buddha ...

There is a third category, the agnostics. They neither believe nor disbelieve. They are like the cat on the wall, jumping neither this side...

Darwin may have expounded one of the most elegant biological theories of evolution by natural selection but he apparently had reservations.

God is finite and learning and evolving as the universe learns and evolves. Which of course makes him neither omnipotent nor immutable.

Could there be a fourth alternative besides the much wrenched and wrangled over trinity of theism, atheism and agnosticism? Something beyon...

This column featured neuroscientist David Eagleman’s possibilianism previously. It rejects polar positions of theism and its opposite, athe...

NOTED journalist and polemist Christopher Hitchens has accused votaries of Christianity and moral theism of promoting ‘celestial dictatorsh...

From the moment they reject the existence of God, atheists - at least the thinking ones - run headlong into the problem of goodness. Natura...

Sinbad the Sailor and his companions get marooned on a vast floating island. They’re weary and wet and one lights a little fire. That’s whe...

Martin Gardner, who died at 95 recently, became synonymous with recreational math with his column in Scientific American. But he also had a...