Science and Faith

Atheism and Theism as Siblings!

Atheism is often defined as the absence of faith in God or the negation of the existence of God. Social scientists have embarked on studying the phenomenon of atheism in empirical ways. They come up with many interesting findings. One factor that emerges from these studies is that atheism is a very complex phenomenon with […]

Atheism – An Evolutionary Weed with the Wheat?

A recent study headed by British Scientist Edward Dutton at Oulu University, Finland, found a correlation between atheism, autism and left handedness. People who are left-handed or autistic are more likely to be atheistic. The research focussed on people who were either left handed or had autism or schizophrenia. Scientists examined whether they were more […]

Meeting Ground Between God and Humans

Kuruvilla Pandikattu Science or art? On its face, this question presents a false choice. Science and art belong to two separate realms. Both express deep truths about existence, but in very different ways. Science uses the symbolic form of mathematical equations to describe the mechanics of reality. Art uses paint, the written word, film and […]

Atheism Revisited

The popular impression regarding faith and science is that science has made religious belief an affair of the uneducated old ladies. The emergence of modern has rendered the belief in God as foolish. There is no scope for miracles and there should be no recourse to faith from science. In fact this popular assumption is […]

Death cannot be avoided!

Eternal youthfulness has been an ambitious dream of science and accordingly several intensive researches are currently on in the fields of genetics, artificial intelligence, etc., to switch off the genes responsible for aging. The multibillion dollar project Calisco project by google is the latest candidate in the field. “Curing death” was the proclaimed agenda of […]

Listening to the outer space

On October 26, 2017 Pope Francis conversed with astronauts orbiting Earth on the International Space Station, discussing questions as diverse as man’s place in the universe, the fragility of life and the planet and international cooperation. “Astronomy makes us contemplate the horizons of the universe and raises questions in us: Where did we come from? […]

Gravitational-Wave Astronomy and Religious Implications

Job Kozhamthadam The Nobel Prize in physics for this year was awarded last week to the lead scientists involved in the discovery of the gravitational waves. Gravitational waves were discovered on 14 September 2015. The event lasted only a paltry 200 milliseconds, but it opened a new chapter in the annals of human’s relentless pursuit […]

REALITY – BEYOND OUR COMPLETE UNDERSTANDING

S. Stephen Jayard Human body is a complex phenomenon. It is not just the assembly of several individual parts. In Philosophy there is a tendency called, Reductionism. Reductionism in general means that the nature of complex things can be understood by reducing them to the functions and interactions of their parts that are simpler and […]

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