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PHILIP BALL | According to the old story, we once thought that all this other DNA was just “junk,” a term coined in this context in the 1970s. It was accumulated over the course of evolution, for example by viruses inserting their genetic material into ours, and it did nothing useful but just cluttered up our genome the way all our old detritus of a lifetime clutters up our attic.

DEONNIE MOODIE | Circulations of anti-priestcraft produced the ideal of the liberal subject that would not require external rule ...

HASAN HAMEED | Griffel’s strategy is simple. The best evidence demonstrating that philosophy did not die after Ghazali

This forum on Alda Balthrop-Lewis' Thoreau's Religion: Walden Woods, Social Justice, and the Politics of Asceticism. Cambridge University...

PHILIP BALL | I’m particularly keen to set science within a wider historical, cultural, and philosophical context

The idea that philosophy and religion are in conflict is recent, only gaining widespread appeal in modernity.

SAMUEL LONCAR | Is a truly modern religion possible...