‘The mystery of the universe is that it is comprehensible’ said, Albert Einstein. Indeed, humans have come a long way in understanding the cosmos for a long time. Isaac Newton was one great Scientist/Philosopher of nature for whom as Einstein would describe that the secrets of nature were like child’s play. Poet Alexander Pope who was a contemporary of...
Contesting our Quest for a Technological Fix
Today science and technology are instruments of development and are contested territories in our society. Techo-optimists think that both science and technology can fix all ills of our society. This belief in science and technology’s ability to deliver progress is associated with right-wing politics. Right-wing politics largely focuses on the distribution of culture. This is a kind of determinism...
The Semiosis of the Dialogical Event
Love has a great role in establishing non-dominating and non-totalizing relations among human beings. Love has transformative and emancipative possibilities. Love to be emancipative cannot suppress the multiple into reductive sameness. Real love is a process of becoming different and hence it ruptures everyday life. Love, therefore, transgresses the limits of everyday life. It opens the third space to...
The Opening of Dialogue to a Triologue
The growth of secularism along with the growth of Science and Technology had brought Religion on verge of extinction. There were and there are several prophets of doom who have uttered the death sentence/ fatwa on Religion. They declared that with the progressive growth of Science, Religion will be simply wiped off. A cursory glance at the affairs of...
The Truths to Come and the People to Come
The event of dialogue of Science and Religion is not merely a theoretical question but a practical one. It is concerned with a promise of transformation of our society and our world. The event of this dialogue calls new people to live in fidelity to it. It is disruptive and hence transformative. Its disruptive character is in it the...
The Dialogical Inclusion of Science and Religion
Science and Religion like other inter-disciplines meet in the event of our being humans. But this event of being human is complex and produces several evental truths. Fidelity to these truth events produces the expressions of the relations of Science and Religion. The enmity between them cannot be thought to be based on some false consciousness of humans. Such...
The God of Science
The physics of belief in God is linked to entropy. We worry about disorder in our life and hence desire order and think that God is the condition of the order. The belief in God assists humans to approach uncertainty. This reduction of belief in God to the fear of entropy places the foundation of belief and faith in...
Steven Weinberg and the Pointless Universe
Steven Weinberg, noble laureate won the prize for his work of weak force and its interaction with electromagnetic force. His theory is called an electroweak theory. It was developed in the early 1960s in collaboration with Sheldon Glashow and Abdus Salam, who shared the Nobel Prize with Weinberg. He courted controversy not only for his advocacy to build an...
Stephen Hawking and Pope John Paul II
Stephen Hawking has publicly acknowledged his discomfort with the word atheist to describe his position on God. He has also claimed that he was trying to Know the mind of God in his best-seller, the Brief History of Time. His flair for Physics as well as his compulsive passion to link it with God attracted crowds for his lectures....
Physicist Paul Davies and Religion
Physicist Paul Davies seems to eliminate the role of Religion when in the preface of his book, God and New Physics, he declares that Science is a surer path to God than religion. This hypothesis that science is a path to God has been also claimed by Sir Isaac Newton, Johannes Kepler and other fathers of modern Science much...
