This section lists numerous questions in the area of theology, philosophy and related topics, and then presents answers based on best available scholarship. This material was assembled by the editor, except where otherwise indicated. Each page linked to below includes detailed references.

1. What are the merits of the new atheist literature? Atheists
2. Can one take a cafeteria approach to science and religion? Cafeteria
3. Is there a conspiracy among scientists? Conspiracy
4. Are there controversies among scientists? Controversies
5. Has Richard Dawkins, in The God Delusion, disproved religion? Dawkins
6. Is modern society in decline? Decline
7. Is science or religion to blame for the decline of modern society? Decline-blame
8. Does modern science negate human free agency? Determinism
9. Is Stephen Hawking correct that modern physics removes the need for religion? Hawking
10. Have science and religion have always been at war? History
11. Is methodological naturalism presumed in modern science? Methodological naturalism
12. Does modern science undermine morality? Morality
13. What are the standards for peer-reviewed scholarship? Peer review
14. Is modern science is socially constructed and forever tentative? Postmodern
15. What is the idea of progress? Progress
16. Is scientific progress real? Progress-science
17. Does a secular worldview always lead to greater rejection of pseudoscience? Pseudoscience
18. Is there a royal road to science and religion? Royal road
19. What is scientific materialism? Scientific materialism
20. Is science based on secular humanism? Secular humanism
21. Is society becoming more violent? Violence
22. What is science? What is science?