Pranam 2nd one indicating how a scientist also believes in existence. This article is reported in Kanchi mutt kamakoti pradeepam of the current month part 1. However the data almost in these referred books I had read in USA and has either those books or notes taken. The english is not translation but original K R IRS 1121
*Seven Reasons Why a Scientist Believes in God by A. Cressy Morrison *An accomplished Ph. D. chemist who was once president of the New York Academy of Sciences, Morrison's biography <http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/Nave-html/Faithpathh/morrisonbio.html#c1> notes this position statement: *Seven Reasons Why a Scientist Believes in God* "WE ARE STILL IN THE DAWN of the scientific age, and every increase of light reveals more brightly the handiwork of an intelligent Creator. We have made stupendous discoveries; with a spirit of scientific humility and of faith grounded in knowledge we are approaching ever nearer to an awareness of God. For myself, I count *seven reasons* for my faith: First: By unwavering mathematical law we can prove that our universe was designed and executed by a* great engineering intelligence*. Suppose you put ten pennies, marked from one to ten, into your pocket and give them a good shuffle. Now try to take them out in sequence from one to ten, putting back the coin each time and shaking them all again. Mathematically we know that your chance of first drawing number one is one in ten; of drawing one and two in succession, one in 100; of drawing one, two and three in succession, one in 1000, and so on; your chance of drawing them all, from number one to number ten in succession, would reach the unbelievable figure of one in* ten billion.* By the same reasoning, so many *exacting conditions* are necessary for life on the earth that they could not possibly exist in proper relationship by chance. The earth rotates on its axis 1000 miles an hour at the equator; if it turned at 100 miles an hour, our days and nights would be ten times as long as now, and the hot sun would likely burn up our vegetation each long day while in the long night any surviving sprout might well freeze. Again, the sun, source of our life, has a surface temperature of 10,000 degrees Fahrenheit, and our *earth is just far enough away *so that this "eternal life" warms us just enough and not too much! If the sun gave off only one half its present radiation, we would freeze, and if it gave as much more, we would roast. *The slant of the earth*, tilted at an angle of 23 degrees, gives us our seasons; if the earth had not been so tilted, vapours from the ocean would move north and south, piling up for us continents of ice. If our moon were, say, only 50,000 miles away instead of its actual distance, our tides might be so enormous that twice a day all continents would be submerged; even the mountains could soon be eroded away. If the *crust of the earth had only been ten feet thicker,* there would be no oxygen, without which animal life must die. Had the ocean been a few feet deeper, carbon dioxide and oxygen would have been absorbed and no vegetable life could exist. It is apparent from these and a host of other examples that *there is not one chance in billions that life on our planet is an accident.* Second: The resourcefulness of life to accomplish its purpose is a manifestation of an all-pervading Intelligence. *What life itself is, no man has fathomed. It has neither weight nor dimensions, but it does have force;* a growing root will crack a rock. Life has conquered water, land and air, mastering the elements, compelling them to dissolve and reform their combinations. Life, the sculptor, shapes all living things; an artist, it designs every leaf of every tree, and colours every flower. Life is a musician and has taught each bird to sing its love song, the insects to call one another in the music of their multitudinous sounds. Life is a sublime chemist, giving taste to fruits and spices, and perfume to the rose, changing water and carbonic acid into sugar and wood, and, in so doing, releasing oxygen that animals may have the breath of life. Behold an almost invisible drop of protoplasm, transparent, jellylike, capable of motion, drawing energy from the sun. This single cell, this transparent mist-like droplet, holds within itself the germ of life, and has power to distribute this life to every living thing, great and small. The powers of this droplet are greater than our vegetation and animals and people, for all life came from it. Nature did not create life; fire-blistered rocks and a saltless sea could not meet the necessary requirements. *Who, then, has put it here?* Third: Animal wisdom speaks irresistibly of a good Creator who infused instinct into otherwise helpless little creatures. The young salmon spends years at sea, then comes back to his own river, and travels up the very side of the river into which flows the tributary where he was born. What brings him back so precisely? If you transfer him to another tributary he will know at once that he is off his course and he will fight his way down and back to the main stream and then turn up against the current to finish his destiny accurately. Even more difficult to solve is the *mystery of eels. *These amazing creatures migrate at maturity from ponds and rivers everywhere - those from Europe across thousands of miles of ocean - all bound for the same abysmal deeps near Bermuda. There they breed and die. The little ones, with no apparent means of knowing anything except that they are in a wilderness of water, nevertheless start back and find their way not only to the very shore from which their parents came but thence to the self-same rivers, lakes or little ponds. No American eel has ever been caught in Europe, no European eel in American waters. Nature has even delayed the maturity of the European eel by a year or more to make up for its longer journey. Where does the directional impulse originate? Fourth: Man has something *more than animal instinct - the power of reason.* No other animal has ever left a record of its ability to count ten, or even to understand the meaning of ten. Where instinct is like a single note of a flute, beautiful but limited, the human brain contains all the notes of all the instruments in the orchestra. No need to belabour this fourth point; thanks to human reason we can contemplate the possibility that we are what we are only because we have received a spark of Universal Intelligence. Fifth: Provision for all living is revealed in such phenomena as the *wonders of genes.* So tiny are these genes that, if all of them responsible for all living people in the world could be put in one place, there would be less than a thimbleful. Yet these genes inhabit every living cell and are the keys to all human, animal and vegetable characteristics. A thimble is a small place to hold all the individual characteristics of almost three billion human beings. However, the facts are beyond question. Here evolution really begins - at the cell, the entity which holds and carries the genes. That the ultra-microscopic gene can absolutely rule all life on earth is an example of profound cunning and provision that could emanate only from a Creative Intelligence; no other hypothesis will serve. Sixth: By the economy of nature, we are forced to realize that only infinite wisdom could have foreseen and prepared with such *astute husbandry.* Many years ago, a species of cactus was planted in Australia as a protective fence. Having no insect enemies in Australia, the cactus soon began a prodigious growth; the alarming abundance persisted until the plants covered an area as long and wide as England, crowding inhabitants out of the towns and villages, and destroying their farms. Seeking a defence, entomologists scoured the world; finally they turned up an insect which lived exclusively on cactus, and would eat nothing else. It would breed freely, too; and it had no enemies in Australia. So, animal soon conquered vegetable, and today the cactus pest has retreated - and with it all but a small protective residue of the insects, enough to hold the cactus in check forever. Such *checks and balances* have been universally provided. Why have not fast-breeding insects dominated the earth? Because they have no lungs such as man possesses; they breathe through tubes. But when insects grow large, their tubes do not grow in ratio to the increasing size of the body. Hence there never has been an insect of great size; this limitation on growth has held them all in check. If this physical check had not been provided, man could not exist. Imagine meeting a hornet as big as a lion! Seventh: The fact that man can conceive the idea of God is in itself a unique proof. *The conception of God rises from a divine faculty of man,* unshared with the rest of our world - the faculty we call imagination. By its power, man and *man alone can find the evidence of things unseen. *The vista that power opens up is unbounded; indeed, as man's perfected imagination becomes a spiritual reality, he may discern in all the evidence of design and purpose the great truth that heaven is wherever and whatever; that God is everywhere and in everything that nowhere so close as in our hearts. Xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx NB: This is a general statement applicable of Morrison; but this one was Adopted to Bible- quotes by the website The Divine Life Society <http://www.dlshq.org/messages/sciblgod.htm> which includes some links to further discussion, and shows that Morrison appealed to a wide variety of religious perspectives. This statement apparently made such an impact that Readers Digest Books published a condensed version of Morrison's earlier work "Man Does Not Stand Alone <http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/Nave-html/Faithpathh/morrison.html#c1>"(1944) under the title "Seven Reasons Why a Scientist Believes in God"(1962). It is a rather drastic condensation which doesn't include Morrison's eloquent presentation of Genesis 1.There is a discussion of Morrison's "Seven Reasons .." in a web article on Contemporary Teachng and Faith in God" <http://www.orthodoxphotos.com/readings/LGFLS/teaching.shtml> Xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx NB2: Richard Dawkins FRS FRSL is a British ethologist, evolutionary biologist, and author. He is an emeritus fellow of New College, Oxford, and was the University of Oxford's Professor for Public Understanding of Science from 1995 until 2008 books when you read would understand the efforts taken to rebut the existence and the faith, attributing all to science alone; though explained by so many theories in the following books, THE GOD DELUSION, THE SELFISH GENE, THE BLIND WATCH MAKER, THE ANCESTOR’S TALE, THE EXTENDED PHENOTYPE, SCIENCE IN THE SOUL, THE VIRUS MIND, -all hardcore defence as another scientist. `Though Hawking rejected the conventional notion of God or a creator, he fundamentally believed that the universe and life have meaning, “Remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see and wonder about what makes the universe exist,” Hawking said of the meaning of life. “Be curious. And however difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at.”- a sublime view of Buddha though branded an atheist. His atheism was reflected in the books, on Time and the theory of everything which he was thriving hard, and failed -admitted the truth in doubt. Christopher Hitchens and Sam Harris directions were different. In short all atheism books of the west was against only the Biblical contents and some Islam; rarely I saw any Indian materials at all. Nothing mentioned to be precise. KR 01 01 2021 On Thu, 31 Dec 2020 at 18:43, Sithamalli Balasubramanian < [email protected]> wrote: > Science has promoted that disbelief > Reply: As one who may call himself a 'scientist' I contradict the above > statement. 'Science' requires one to be objective, nothing more, In fact > Vedanta also requires the same thing. I like to say, "objectivity is the > operative word of vedanta." In sanskrit it is called muktasanga. (Gita > XVIII, 26). > The axiom, Satyameva jayate, na-anrtam also means the same. I am attaching > my article on the axiom. > > On Thu, 31 Dec 2020 at 08:57, Rajaram Krishnamurthy <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Pranam >> Hard work Machine is a human whereas all machines sucks the hard >> work of humanity. As we buy all whether we need or not, so too, money >> spinners are fooling around the world, resulting at the end of the tunnel, >> fooling themselves. K R IRS 311220 HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL >> >> On Thu, 31 Dec 2020 at 07:31, Markendeya Yeddanapudi < >> [email protected]> wrote: >> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> *Mar*Disbelief As Science >>> >>> >>> >>> When nature was God and adored, our Sages strived to understand every >>> organism, emotionally by breathing, smelling and sensing. A sage could >>> perceive like a dog, or cat or elephant. The perception was emotional and >>> not mechanical without emotions. The Biosphere was one organism, the great >>> macro organism-Gaia. >>> >>> Like the bacterium, one among the trillions living in you, belief in >>> you as a macro organism for them was basic and biological. Bio Logic means >>> the logic of the life forms, which is the outcome of breathing, smelling >>> and sensing, the emotional logic. It is not the techno-logic the logic of >>> the emotion-less machines. A mind by itself cannot develop beliefs. It >>> needs the emotional feed through breathing, and when breathing is >>> repudiated as it creates emotions or bias, disbelief gets promoted as >>> Atheism, or as the techno-dependent science. >>> >>> Emotional perception is not the mechanized reasoning of the mind, where >>> understanding needs connection of a phenomenon, to the basic concept >>> paradigms developed in the mind. Emotional perception, on the other hand is >>> connecting to the air flow of Gaia by breathing and smelling. Science >>> champions the disbelief of own emotions. Every hypothesis needs the >>> upholding of machines-the computers, to be accepted as a finding of >>> science.Today,we do not even accept our own basic understanding itself. We >>> just note and mug and memorize what the computers tell. >>> >>> Once, when one faced a problem, one went to thick nature and inhaled, to >>> get inspiration and answers. Nature or God was inhaled as the method of >>> facing problems. Often solutions and answers suddenly flashed into the >>> mind. Breathing created the needed inspirational emotion answer and flashed >>> into the mind. Nature or God was there, as nature was not axed as part of >>> the economic destruction. Belief was breathing. Today we science away and >>> murdered nature, and we need nose masks to enable the functioning of our >>> bodies as just machines that need machines to live. Artificial intelligence >>> is driving away natural intelligence. >>> >>> A lunatic thinks that all other people of the world are fools and that >>> he alone is intelligent. Science has promoted that disbelief, as the belief >>> that only human beings are intelligent and superior and every other >>> organism is foolish. Because they are not converting themselves into >>> feelings-less machines, like the humans. 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