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"God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose. Take which you please -- you can never have both." -Ralph Waldo Emerson Nearly 500 years after science and religion parted company over Galileo's demeaning challenge to a church invested in geocentricity, we have come to a...

Human thought in the twenty-first century needs to work towards a new model that immerses the human being within a vibrant energetic universe. However, this need not demand that we throw away what we already have; rather, we can expand upon the tools that have brought us to our present position...

The science/religion fault line has built up tremendous pressure in the last few decades, and people on both sides of it feel deeply shaken. Maybe that explains why so many can't see straight. Many theists continue, against all reason, to try to jam the 11-dimensional square peg of science...

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Jerry Coyne and I had an interesting exchange yesterday that will appear in a brief video on USA Today's website at some point. The question related to the compatibility of science and religion. Can one accept the modern scientific view of the world and still hold to anything resembling a...

Posted on: Thursday, 1 April 2010, 06:15 CDT This April Fools' Day, regardless of whether you're the one playing the prank or the victim of someone else's shenanigans, odds are you'll be laughing--and to Baltimore based neuroscientist Robert Provine, that's serious business. Provine...

The Burden of Proof: How Atheism Has Adopted a Worldview That Science Never Intended "The human mind is not capable of grasping the Universe. We are like a little child entering a huge library. The walls are covered to the ceilings with books in many different tongues...

Stephen Hawking is regarded as the most brilliant theoretical physicist since Einstein. He is also the most read scientist of the day. His book 'A Brief History of Time' was on the London Sunday Times bestseller list for over four years, longer than any book so far. During one of my travels I...

The science of sniffer dogs Rescuers from all around the world are converging on Haiti in the wake of this week's earthquake - and not all of them are human. Finding survivors amid the rubble of Port-au-Prince is a job tailor-made for dogs and devices. The search-and-rescue operation...

Origin of Universe - Recorded in Sri Guru Granth Sahib Compared with Other Religions and Science auqpiq prlau sbdy hovY ] sbdy hI iPir Epiq hovY ](m 3,117-8) (The universe originates from the Word (sabd) and assimilates with the Word. It again originates from the Word.). The...

Hinduism: science or religion? Hinduism started long time ago. No one really knows when. There is lot of misconception about Hinduism. Most of the religions in India have been from Hinduism. But is Hinduism religion or it is science. This will be short version. To write fully will take lot of...

This came in the Mail today..Read on... Sahel is the transition region of grassland and shrubland between wooded Africa to its South and Sahara to its north. This is the where the modern humans evolved, after chimps from the wooded south travelled northwards and started...

Prayer May Reshape Your Brain ... And Your Reality by Barbara Bradley Hagerty Scientists are making the first attempts to understand spiritual experience — and what happens in the brains and bodies of people who believe they connect with the divine. The field is called "neurotheology," and...

It's hard to introduce such videos. They are just amazing! I hope these inspire viewers to understand science AS IT IS, not how its propagated by people. The purpose of the videos is to motivate the search for knowledge and the understanding of scientific principles that have been established...

There may be more than one forum member who is interested in submitting an abstract fo consideration in the Journal of Sikh Studies. Take some time to read this call for abstracts. Call for Papers for a Special Issue of IOSS Journal "Abstract of Sikh Studies"...

Religious Experience in Science Dr. D. P. SINGH* "The cosmic religious feeling is the strongest and noblest motive for scientific research." - Albert Einstein Science and religion represent two great systems of human thought. For the majority of people on our planet, religion is the...

The Origin of Life and Evolution according to Science and Gurbani There is no general consensus among the scientists about the origin of life in the universe. Various theories have been put forward to explain the origin and evolution of life in the same manner as the origin of universe...

Global Perspectives in Science and Sikh Religion Introduction Human life is based on the interaction of physical, cultural and even religious forms of life. Man is part of nature. Human mind has access to reality through four modes of knowledge: sensory experience, discursive...

Cosmological Ideas in Science and Religion[/FONT] Abstract[/FONT] Cosmology deals with the problem of the creation of the universe. Almost all religions have dealt with the problem of creation of the universe from time immemorial in their sacred texts. Guru Nanak, the founder of the...

Science & Spirituality Dharma Singh Khalsa, M.D.* * US based Dr. Dharma Singh Khalsa is trained in anesthesiology and acupuncture, and is the President of the Alzheimer’s Prevention Foundation International. He is the author of four critically acclaimed best-selling books – Brain Longevity...