Francisco Ayala tells Reason.tv why he thinks cloning humans is impossible, science has nothing to do with morality, and that the contradiction between science and religion arises only when we conflate the two areas or “transgress their boundaries.”

Nobel Prize-winning physicist William Phillips says science hasn’t made belief in God or religious faith obsolete—“it just requires what I would consider to be a different outlook,” he tells Big Think.

Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Marilynne Robinson, author of the new nonfiction science-and-religion book Absence of Mind, tells Jon Stewart that “it’s the quality of science and the quality of religion that determines the nature of the conversation” between the two disciplines and that much of the conflict comes from the fact that “the gladiators for both sides are … inferior representatives of both sides.”

In a Big Think interview, Dan Ariely, a behavioral economist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, explains why attractive people want to date someone who is hot, and unattractive people look for mates who are kind and funny.