Science and Faith

Lord Kelvin as Scientist and Believer

Kuruvilla Pandikattu SJ Lord Kelvin (William Thomason 1824-1907) is a giant of 19th Century science. In addition to the Kelvin Scale of absolute temperature, for which he is usually remembered, his pioneering research in the fields of mechanical energy and mathematics proved vital in the task of laying the first transatlantic communication cable which connects […]

George Ellis – Hawking’s Religious Colleague!

George Francis Rayner Ellis, born in 1939, is a renowned cosmologist hailing from South Africa. He co-authored The Large Scale Structure of Space-Time with Stephen Hawking in 1973. He is the emeritus distinguished professor of complex systems in the department of mathematics at the University of Cape Town in South Africa.He has also served as […]

Eddington – The Mystical Scientist

Sir Arthur Eddington was an outstanding English Astronomer and theoretical scientist of the twentieth century. He had keen interest in philosophy and in science and religion. Eddington criticizes the attitude of glorifying science and vivifying mysticism. Eddington talks about a World-Spirit which in some ways seems to take the place of the traditional idea of […]

I go there where reason leads me!

Anthony Flew was a hard core atheist based in Oxford. He passed away in 2010. He made headlines in the first decade of the 21st century with his conversion to faith. His atheistic book was originally titled, There is no God. The book published after his fresh convictions was titled, There is a God, striking […]

Marconi From Wireless Radio to Prayer!

Guglielmo Marconi (1874-1937) was an Italian Physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1909. He is most popularly known for his invention of the radio. His invention of radio was a revolutionary step in the world of communication. Born in 1874 in Bologna, Italy, he was baptized as a Catholic but brought up […]

Eugene Wigner – The Miracle of Mathematics

Eugene Wigner (1902-1995) is a Hungarian-American Physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1963. He and his parents were Lutherans converted from Judaism for political reasons, than religious. He has made immense contributions to mathematical physics, particularly to particle physics. However, he is known more for a statement he made about mathematics. He […]

Louis Pasteur– Foolishness of Modern Materialism

Louis Pasteur (1822-1995) was a French biologist who is renowned for his contributions to medical science particularly in the field of vaccination. To him we owe the first vaccines for rabies and anthrax. His discoveries have saved the lives of millions. He is one among the founders of bacteriology and is known as the father […]

Creation is a Miracle!

Scientific experiments and findings in recent times have led many hard-core theistic scientists and philosophers to be believers. American Scientist Francis Collins, Oxford Philosopher Anthony Flew, etc., are a couple of such stalwarts, whom we have already discussed in this column. Renowned American astronomer Allan Sandage is another candidate to this line of scientists. Allan […]

Hindus call off rally through Christian villages in eastern India

Dayal among three awarded for promoting religious freedom, civil liberties