Science and Faith

Gregor Mendel – The Scientist Monk

Gregor Mendel (1822-1884) is regarded as the Father of Modern Genetics. He was born in a Silesian region now in the Czech Republic. He was an Augustinian Monk and the Abbot of the St Thomas Abbey in Brno of Moravia. Born of peasant parents, he had to find his own means for his study. After […]

James Maxwell Science as God’s Plan for Salvation

James Clerk Maxwell (1831-1879) is a great British scientist who dominated the intellectual landscape of the science of electricity. His contributions are in the fields of optics, and electromagnetism. He developed the theory of electromagnetism and the chemical kinetic theory of gases. Maxwell’s equations of electromagnetism led to the prediction on the existence of electromagnetic […]

The Golden Middle Way of Aristotle

Talking about the virtuous life Aristotle proposes a principle of golden mean or golden middle way. The Golden Mean embodies Aristotle’s answer to how happiness can be achieved by man. Happiness is the end goal of human existence. The golden mean is the desirable middle between two extremes, one of excess and the other of […]

Scientism – A Pathology of the Modern Mind!

Michael Polanyi (1891-1976) was a Hungarian born chemist who made immense contributions to Chemistry and philosophy of science. His research fields included chemical kinetics, x-ray diffraction, and gas absorption. His pioneering discoveries developed the theory of fibre diffraction analysis in 1921. After his migration to England in 1933, he also served as aprofessor of social […]

ARISTOTLE

Aristotle, student of Plato, is the founder of the Lyceum and the Peripatetic school of philosophy. He lived during the Classical period of philosophy in Ancient Greece. Aristotle’s views were formed largely in reaction to those of the Pre-Socratics, Socrates and Plato. He is far more of a scientist than his predecessors, and compared to […]

Michael Faraday – Wonder of Magnetism and Wonders of Divine!

Michael Faraday (1791-1867) was a renowned British scientist famous for his contributions to electromagnetism. Of him Enstein said that among all peoples, Faraday ‘had made the greatest change in our conception of reality.’ Son of a blacksmith, and with no formal education, he discovered many fundamental laws of physics and chemistry. He had an inherent […]

Arthur Holly Compton Master Thinker Christ

Arthur Holly Compton (1892 –1962) was an American physicist who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1923 for his discovery of the Compton Effect. Compton effect was a sensation discovery which established the particle nature of electromagnetic radiation. He was also involved in the Manhattan Project that produced the first nuclear weapon. At […]

Freeman Dyson God as the World Soul!

“I asked (my mother), ‘Why do we have so many churches in Winchester?’ and she said, ‘If God had wanted us all to worship in one church, he wouldn’t have made so many different kinds of people.’ I liked that, and I feel the same way about life as a whole. I mean, that’s the […]

Hindus call off rally through Christian villages in eastern India

Dayal among three awarded for promoting religious freedom, civil liberties