February 26, 2009
Vol. 136, Issue 35

(Photo Illustration by Tyler Ball)

What’s God got to do with it?

On July 23, 1998, Edward J. Larson, a science historian then based out of the University of Georgia, and Larry Witham, a journalist, published the results of an oft-invoked, somewhat controversial study that came to the conclusion that “among the top natural scientists, disbelief [in God] is greater than ever—almost total.”

Previously in Postscript