AI is doing several things that humans can do. In fact that there are alarm bells run that ring to foretell that jobs will shrink in the future as more and more they will be taken by AI. They are fast replicating previously human-only skills and are simulating human intelligence. Will, they make us humans redundant. The real issue...
Neuroscience, Neurotheology and Graced Nature
Religion has a profound impact on the entire person of a human being. The effects of religious belief on the human brain and behaviour led to the emergence of a new discipline that we call neurotheology. Neurotheology tries to understand brain functions associated with spiritual experiences. Brain imaging techniques or brain scans have manifested that religious thought does not...
Gravitational Waves and the imperative to listen to Science and Religion in Dialogue
Introduction The discovery of the gravitational waves has opened a new window on our universe. The gravitational waves being composed of longer peaks like sound waves literally invite us to listen to our universe. It promises a new era for the field Cosmology. Cosmology that mainly saw the universe in the power of light waves which have smaller peaks,...
The Folly of Putting God into the Gaps of Science
Stephen Hawking points out that his understanding of the new physics does not need God as the creator . Richard Dawkins makes a similar argument from his field of evolutionary biology. Are these claims true? Has science really ruled out God? Can we in the name of science claim that God does not exist? In this study we shall...
Schizoanalysis of Science and Technology
Science has emerged as a disciplining practice/ technology. Every other discipline has been assigned its place in the universe of knowledge in relation to science and technology. Science enjoys hegemony and has occupied an imperial position. Following Gilles Delleuze and Felix Gauttari , we might say that it constitutes a revolutionary force in a sense that when one reaches...
New Epistocracy and Displacement of Science in India
The karma of colonialism is refusing to go away. We are born again into a postcolonial era where the past lives complexly into our present. Scholars admit that colonialism has produced enduring subjects and knowledges- the colonizers and the colonized, the occidental and the oriental, the civilized and the primitive, the scientific and the superstitious, the developed and the ...
Techniques to Balm the Wounded Planet Earth
We are faced with global eco-crises that are threatening to become a global ecocide. The global warming seems to have reached a point of no return and even if we somehow control the green house gases, the rising temperatures of the earth will not reach a full stop for a long time. The imbalance between the heat received by...
Mathematics the Next Microscope Over Life
Science has a deep relation with mathematics. Today even life sciences depend on quantitative measurements and correlations. Charles Darwin, the father of evolution is said to have expressed his regrets when he said, ‘ I have not proceeded far enough at least to understand something of the great leading principles of mathematics; for men thus endowed seem to have...
The Challenge of Synthetic Biology
The creation of a bacterial cell controlled by a chemically synthesized genome is projected as a great breakthrough of science in the 21s century. On 19th May, biologist Craig Venter and his colleagues announced their great achievement to the rousing reception of the scientific community. Craig Venter with his usual air of arrogance declared that the breakthrough will redefine...
The Semiotics of Science and Religion Dialogue and the Global Citizenship
Science -Religion dialogue has grown by leaps and bounds. In the context of this study, we wish to undertake a scrutiny of the dynamism of this vital dialogue. This brings us to the in-between zone opened by the two disciplines . A spatial hermeneutics can illuminate many profound aspects of the in-between zone opened by Science and Religion. The...
