The God Equation is a new and short book by the theoretical physicist and science popularizer Michio Kaku. It’s not his best book, but it does raise an interesting question: Why is God in its title?

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

What’s God got to do with it? Given that the majority of physicists are agnostics at best, I have always found it puzzling that my community is so obsessed with God’s mind, whether or not God plays ...

Srinivasa Ramanujan, a mathematical prodigy born in 1887, saw mathematics as a path to God. He attributed his intuitive discoveries, particularly in infinite series, to divine inspiration received in ...