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End of Year Message from President Heather Templeton Dill

Dear Friends, Curiosity is one of the core principles that guides our work at the John Templeton Foundation. How can we live meaningful and purposeful lives? How does our social context inform decisions that we make or the way we interact with each other? How does basic science research contribute to human flourishing – even when it takes years to get results or to transform our understanding? These questions drive our curiosity because they focus on the role that humans play in making the world a better place. This year, perhaps more than others in recent memory, reminded us why…

Occam’s Quantum Mechanical Razor: Can Quantum theory admit the Simplest Understanding of Reality?

The Institute for Cross-Disciplinary Engagement at Dartmouth

The Alien Earths Initiative

The Question of Character: Equipping the Next Generation

Is macroevolution testable? Comparative insights into convergent evolution

The Templeton Project for Open Inquiry in the Legal Academy: Free Enterprise and Religious Freedom

Video: What Is Life?

Have we encountered alien life already and just not realized it? Will deepening our understanding of life in the universe transform our understanding of ourselves? Explore the profound questions surrounding the nature and origins of life that propel the research of astrobiologist Dr. Sara Walker of Arizona State University in this interview. Walker is the recipient of a $2.9 million grant from the John Templeton Foundation for a project, co-led by Templeton Prize laureate Paul Davies, to explore the transitions bridging chemistry and the origins of life. What Is Life? "Life is literally the physics of creativity," says Walker. "It's…

The Testimony of Rocks and Minerals

How Quantum Biology Could Uncover the Secret of Our Origins