Science and Faith

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 […]

Kepler: The Astronomer “Priest”

Johannnes Kepler, the 17th century astronomer, embodies one of the best example of the reconciliation and integration between science and faith. Discovery of the three mathematical laws of planetary motion, known as “Kepler’s Laws” is the most important achievement of Kepler along with this ideas of the elliptical orbital patterns of planets. He endorsed Copernicus’s […]

Let Newton be! And All was Light

Augustine Pamplany CST Alexander Pope has a well-known epitaph on Isaac Newton: “Nature, and Nature’s Laws, lay hid in Night. God said, Let Newton be! and All was Light.” It reflects the fame as well as the immense value of Newton with regard to science and religion. Isaac Newton is one of the greatest scientists […]

Georges Lemaitre – The Cosmic Egg of Creation!

Augustine Pamplany CST Google’s “doodle” on Tuesday, July 18 was of a great scientist and Roman Catholic Priest, Georges Lemaitre. Google was celebrating the 124th birthday of the Belgian priest. He is credited with the first definitive formulation of the Big Bang Theory. Georges Lemaître was born on 17 July 1894 in Belgium. He studied at […]

Scientists as Believers

Do scientists believe in God? Many of them, do according to a fascinating book, “Religion vs. Science: What Religious People Really Think,” by Elaine Howard Ecklund of Rice University and Christopher Scheitle of West Virginia University. As indicated by Eric Metaxas best-selling author” Martin Luther: The Man Who Rediscovered God and Changed the World,” Ecklund […]

Woe to My Hard Core Atheism!

Alister McGrath currently holds a Professorship in Science and Religion in the Faculty of Theology and Religion at the University of Oxford. He holds three doctorates, in Molecular Biophysics, a Doctor of Divinity in Theology and a Doctor of Letters in Intellectual History. He is most noted for his opposition to atheism. McGrath epitomizes the […]

Only 0.16 Cosmic Second… yet very Crucial!

Carl Sagan, an American astronomer, astrophysicist and astro-biologist, compares the whole process of evolution since the time of Big Bang, about 13 billion years, to a calendar year. Accordingly, a ‘cosmic’ month is equal to about one billion years; a ‘cosmic’ day is about 40 million years; a ‘cosmic’ second is about 500 years and […]

Paul Davies Science as a Path to God!

Paul Davies is a world-famous physicist, born in 1946. He was awarded the prestigious John Templeton award for progress in Religion. The title of his most celebrated book itself is very suggestive – God and the New Physics. His outlook on science and faith has been articulated in a well-celebrated dictum: “in my opinion, today […]

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