The number of faith schools continues to grow, mostly started by mainstream Christian groups

It’s not just people labouring under the “God delusion” who provoke the ire of Professor Richard Dawkins. The outspoken atheist has launched a furious rant at Amazon over an instruction manual he described as an “illiterate disgrace”.

"Reviewers of alternative comedy have failed to do what the rock-music press did 30 years ago: evolve a critical language to talk about a new art form." So claimed Robert Newman in 2006.

When the Dalai Lama received £1.1m last year from the Templeton Foundation, he did what all good Buddhist monks who have preached against materialism might be expected to do – he gave it away.

Virtuous atheists may live well and do good – but can they give hope to the hopeless cases?

Plymouth Brethren failed in bid – but one in four contenders have religious affiliations

As the rich world suffers its crisis of excess, we can learn much from peoples who live with little.

For the Higgs boson believers, and me, Celtic just got lucky against Barcelona

Planet Earth is "about 9,000 years old," and the study of evolution, embryology, and the Big Bang Theory is based on "lies straight from the pit of hell," according to a Congressman responsible for crafting US government policy on science and technology.

Beth Nielsen Chapman here provides a song-borne guide to astronomy for reluctant little learners that parents should find fun, too.

Hardline Presbyterians furious at celebrity atheist's invitation to Hebridean book festival

The history of human evolution is more complex than previously supposed, according to fossils showing that several species of early man once lived cheek by jowl in the same region of East Africa.

A free school run by creationists is among more than 100 approved by the Government to open next year.

The National Trust has defended its decision to include references to creationist theory at a new state-of-the-art visitors' centre at the Giant's Causeway in Northern Ireland.