Science and Faith

John Polkinghorne –Can a Scientist Pray?

John Polkinghorne was a particle physicist in Cambridge. He was knighted by the British Queen for his scientific accomplishments. However he resigned his professorship at Cambridge and became an Anglican Priest. After rendering services as a parish priest for several years, he returned to his academic career and is still making immense contribution to the […]

St Augustine – Synthesis of Faith and Reason

Science-religion dialogue is rather a recent development in the intellectual world. However, the genius of St Augustine, one of the central pillars of Christian theology, did really anticipate the relevance of this challenging enterprise in the fourth century itself. Perhaps the most ancient and most powerful account on the constructive interaction between faith and reason […]

Episteme

The efficacy of philosophizing largely consists in the capacity of the philosophers to discover the underpinnings of social conventions that influence the societal life. Among the postmodern philosophers, like his contemporaries, Michel Foucault has greatly attempted to unveil the unconscious assumptions concerning intellectual order that underlie the historical states of particular societies. He coined a […]

Gene Edited Babies! Playing God or Co-creators!

A Chinese researcher, He Jiankui of Shenzhen, claimed that he was able to produce the first gene edited babies, twin girls, with an advanced technique called CRISPR-cas9. This technique, if developed adequately, is capable of rewriting the very blueprint of life. The purpose of this gene editing was not to prevent any disease, rather to […]

Georges Lemaître: A Priest and Physicist

Kuruvilla Pandikattu SJ Father Georges Lemaître (1894-1966) was an astronomer and professor of physics who is the first one to claim that the universe is expanding. His theory was observationally confirmed soon afterwards by Edwin Hubble in what is now known as Hubble’s Law. Now Hubble owes a lot to Lemaitre for his famous law, […]

David Bohm- Prophet of Unity and Meaning

David Bohm (1917-1992) was an America physicist and philosopher, considered to be one of the top scientists of the twentieth century. He wrote extensively on his belief that the intricacies of the subatomic physics directly carries implications for arts, philosophy, and religion. His book Causality and Chance in Modern Physics is a classical work in […]

Louis Pasteur

Kuruvilla Pandikattu SJ Louis Pasteur (1822-1895) was a French biologist, microbiologist and chemist renowned for his discoveries of the principles of vaccination, microbial fermentation and pasteurization. He is remembered for his remarkable breakthroughs in the causes and prevention of diseases, and his discoveries have saved many lives ever since. Little was known about preventative medicine […]

The God of Einstein

Was Einstein a believer in God? Albert Einstein, the greatest scientist of recent times was a Jew. Since he attended a Catholic school at the age of 5 to 8, so he most likely exposed to Christian theology at this young impressionable age. So he could say: “As a child I received instruction both in […]

Hindus call off rally through Christian villages in eastern India

Dayal among three awarded for promoting religious freedom, civil liberties