Science and Religions: For the Open-minded Ones

Each world faith tradition has its own distinctive relationship with science, and the science-religion dialogue benefits from a greater awareness of what this relationship is. In this book, members of the International Society for Science and Religion (ISSR) offer international and multifaith perspectives on how new discoveries in science are met with insights regarding spiritual realities.

The essays reflect the conviction that "religion and science each proceed best when they're pursued in dialogue with each other, and also that our fragmented and divided world would benefit more from a strongerdialogue between science and religion." In part one, George F. R. Ellis, John C. Polkinghorne, and Holmes Rolston III, each a Templeton Prize winner, discuss their views on why the science and religion dialogue matters. They are joined in part two by distinguished theologians Fraser Watts and Philip Clayton, who place the dialogue in an international context. In part three, writers look at the distinctiverelationships of their faiths to science:

• Carl Feit on Judaism
• Munawar Anees on Islam
• B. V. Subbarayappa on Hinduism
• Trinh Xuan Thuan on Buddhism
• Heup Young Kim on Asian Christianity

George Ellis summarizes the contributions of his colleagues. Ronald Cole-Turner then concludes the book with a discussion of the future of the science and religion dialogue.

Table of Contents

Preface Fraser Watts

Part 1: Why the Dialogue Matters
1. Why the Science and Religion Dialogue Matters George F. R. Ellis
2. Does “Science and Religion” Matter? John Polkinghorne
3. The Science and Religion Dialogue: Why It Matters Holmes Rolston III

Part 2: The International Context
4. Science and Religion: Where Have We Come From and Where Are We Going? John Polkinghorne
5. Science, Religion, and Culture Fraser Watts
6. The State of the International Religion-Science Discussion Today Philip Clayton

Part 3: Perspectives from World Faith Traditions
7. Judaism and Science: A Contemporary AppraisalCarl Feit
8. Is the Science and Religion Discourse Relevant to Islam? Munawar A. Anees
9. Science and Hinduism: Some Reflections B. V. Subbarayappa
10. Science and Buddhism: At the Crossroads Trinh Xuan Thuan
11. Asian Christianity: Toward a Trilogue of Humility: Sciences, Theologies, and Asian Religions Heup Young Kim

Conclusion: Science, Religion, and the Future of Dialogue Ronald Cole-Turner
Contributors
Index

source: http://templetonpress.org/content/why-science-and-religion-dialogue-matters

A scientific quest to discover the human soul:

• what is consciousness?
• where does consciousness come from?
• where does it go when we die?
• what is a soul?

Season 2, Episode 1: "Is There Life After Death" in Through the Wormhole

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[video=youtube;m86edsAjHRU]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m86edsAjHRU[/video]
[video=youtube;GLeaTd7SBmc]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLeaTd7SBmc[/video]

The science behind "Form is Emptiness, Emptiness is form".

Season 1, Episode 7: What Are We Really Made Of? in Through the Wormhole

[video=youtube;d47TZ89-RhQ]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d47TZ89-RhQ[/video]

One of these day, Science will destroy all religion and proof them wrong right from the begining.

Buddhism's ''No-Self Concept'' explains what is consciousness..................and that the ''soul'' is a delusion

Western thinkers can't and will never find the ''soul''......................becoz it's a delusion.............


the ''soul'' is like the car.............you can't find the car becoz it's made up of engine, chassis, etc.................

Frank Tipler uses the term Omega Point to describe what he maintains is the ultimate fate of the universe required by the laws of physics. Tipler identifies this concept as the Christian god and in later writing, infers correctness of Christian mythology from this concept.[citation needed] Tipler (1994) has summarized his theory as follows:

• The universe has finite spatial size and the topology of a three-sphere;
• There are no event horizons, implying the future c-boundary is a point, called the Omega Point;
• Sentient life must eventually engulf the entire universe and control it;
• The amount of information processed between now and the Omega Point is infinite;
• The amount of information stored in the universe asymptotically goes to infinity as the Omega Point is approached.

Key to Tipler's exploration of the Omega Point is that the supposition of a closed universe evolving towards a future collapse. Within this universe, Tipler assumes a massive processing capability. As the universe becomes smaller, the processing capability becomes larger, due to the decreasing cost of communications as the systems shrink in size. At the same time, information from previously disconnected points in space becomes visible, giving the processors access to more and more information. Tipler's Omega Point occurs when the processing capability effectively becomes infinite, as the processors will be able to simulate every possible future before the universe ends - a state also known as "Aleph".

Within this environment, Tipler imagines that intelligent beings, human personalities, will be run as simulations within the system. As a result, after the Omega Point, humans will have omnipotence, able to see all of history and predict all of the future. Additionally, as all history becomes available, past personalities will be able to run as well. Within the simulation, this appears to be the dead rising. Tipler equates this state with the Christian heaven.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omega_Point

Of Science, Mortality/Immortality & God

Season 2, Episode 9: Can we Live Forever?
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