Terry Eagleton, a noted British scholar and cultural theorist, is currently distinguished professor of english literature at Lancaster University. His books include On Evil (2010), which examines ideas about evil through the lenses of literature, religion and psychoanalysis.

Simon Baron-Cohen is professor of developmental psychopathology at the University of Cambridge in Britain. His research interests include empathy, and he is the author of The Science of Evil: On Empathy and the Origins of Cruelty (May 2011).

Read a column by Peter Hitchens, who is a devout Anglican and apologist for Christianity. Hitchens remembers his brother Christopher and reflects on how their views on faith — and other matters — divided and united them.

Lawrence Sherman is Director of the Institute of Criminology of the University of Cambridge. His work is internationally recognized. He co-led a decade-long study of restorative justice in multiple settings.

Denis Alexander is the emeritus director of the Faraday Institute for Science and Religion at Cambridge University in Cambridge, England. He is the author of Creation or Evolution: Do We Have to Choose?, a discussion of Christianity and evolution.

Steve Fuller is a sociology professor at the University of Warwick in Coventry, England, and the author of Science v. Religion?: Intelligent Design and the Problem of Evolution. He has written about preparing for the Darwin bicentennial on the pro-intelligent-design blog Uncommon Descent. He calls on the ID community to further develop ideas about the nature of the […]

The Darwin Correspondence Project, which focuses on the naturalist’s personal letters, has a section on Darwin and religion based on what his correspondence reveals about his personal religious beliefs.

For five months in 2009, London’s Natural History Museum hosted Darwin200 to celebrate the 200th anniversary of Darwin’s birth and the 150th anniversary of the publication of On the Origin of Species. The celebration included lectures, films, debates, performances and more. You can still learn about Darwin’s life and work through the museum’s website.

Rebecca Watson of Buffalo, N.Y., and London, is a well-known activist, writer, blogger and founder of the website Skepchick. She speaks frequently at atheist and other freethought gatherings on the subjects of feminism, science and young people in the movement, and she has a podcast called The Skeptic’s Guide to the Universe. There is a contact form available […]