PBS’ “Faith and Reason” series has tackled several issues involved with the confluence of science and religion. The website offers resources on several of the topics the series has covered.

Legal backgrounder published in 2005 by the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life on the relevant legal cases involving evolution.

The National Academy of Sciences is a private, nonprofit society of distinguished scholars. Established by an act of Congress signed by President Abraham Lincoln in 1863, the NAS is charged with providing independent, objective advice to the nation on matters related to science and technology.

Written by Charles Kimball (HarperOne, 2003). Kimball, in the aftermath of 9/11, describes how religion can evolve to work for evil.

Written by Freiherr von Leibniz (Qontro Classic Books, 2010). Von Leibniz’s essays on evil in the context of religion are compiled.

Written by Philip Zimbardo (Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2008). Zimbardo writes about the social psychology of evil.

Written by Roy F. Baumeister and Aaron Beck (Holt Paperbacks, 1999). Baumeister and Beck write about the people who perpetrate evil.

Read “Mississippi’s Ambiguous ‘Personhood’ Amendment,” an Oct. 31, 2011, op-ed in The New York Times that set out some of the problems of biology and the law that Mississippi’s proposed amendment faced.

Read a Jan. 12, 2013, Christian News Network article about a unanimous ruling by the Alabama Supreme Court concerning a state law that protects children from exposure to illegal drugs. “The plain meaning of the word ‘child’ in the chemical endangerment statute includes unborn children,” the court determined.