Tag Archives: science
You are more than just your genes
Biologist Bruce Lipton recounts a startling revelation that the scientific world encountered soon after the mapping of the human genome. Turns out, what we are isn’t solely determined by our genes. The results of the Genome project reveal that there … Continue reading
Are dreams more than just dreams?
The New Scientist magazine has an interesting report on the ongoing research on human consciousness and how dreams play a large role in unfolding its many mysteries. The mental life of your common or garden human, however, is a lot … Continue reading
This is your brain on God
The NPR has a yummy summary of current research on the relation between brain activity and various instances of spiritual experience. There is a bunch of podcasts thrown in as well. More than half of adult Americans report they have … Continue reading
The Indian way to God
Jug Suraiya talks about how the black and white question about whether God exists or not is alien to all-inclusive India. The God anti-God controversy is largely foreign to Indian thought which, traditionally, has been equally comfortable with 330 million … Continue reading
The not-so-eternal laws of nature
Turns out, the so-called eternal laws of physics may not be so eternal after all. Study of a distant gas cloud out there in space suggests that some things assumed to be constants may have been different about 3 billion … Continue reading
There may be life on Titan
Titan, that most promising moon of Saturn may actually be home to biological entities, according to scientists. Two potential signatures of life on Saturn’s moon Titan have been found by the Cassini spacecraft. But scientists are quick to point out … Continue reading
Science, stupidity and arrogance
A must-read essay in the Journal of Cell Science on the importance of stupidity in scientific research and how the smug feeling of smartness actually hurts the true scientific mindset. For almost all of us, one of the reasons that … Continue reading
The difference between natural and supernatural
Some time ago, during a debate about God as creator, I found myself running into a wall with my atheist opponent who kept refusing to acknowledge anything “magical”. Funny thing was, I wasn’t even talking about anything magical. I was … Continue reading
Death proves the soul’s existence
Many religions say that what fuels us is something indestructible and, for all practical purposes, invisible – the soul. Hinduism believes that all living creatures — from the tiniest of germs to largest of the redwood trees — have a … Continue reading