Topic: Atheism
Reading Complexity: Easy 
While scientific discoveries test religious dogma, religious and paranormal experiences challenge scientific theories.
God and the Laws of Physics
In the Vaishnava tradition of India, God is defined as Brahman, Paramatma, and Bhagavan: the unlimited light of pure being underlying nature, the Lord within the heart, and the supreme transcendental Person. In Christian tradition, a similar idea can...
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It’s a strange world to be a theist in these days.
Back in late 2006, I wrote Not Such A Bright Idea*, my response to an emerging atheist movement called “The Brights.” Since then, a flurry of atheist groups and books have erupted throughout the world, to great success and critical acclaim.
The Atheist Alliance International holds an annual convention where it bestows the Richard Dawkins Award...
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After I lectured recently to a class of philosophy students, an articulate young man raised his doubts. “I can’t see the difference between what you said and what the atheists say,” he said. “How do you mystics, who maintain the absolute incomprehensibility of the Deity, differ from skeptics and atheists who assert that the first cause is unknown and unintelligible?”
I replied that the Absolute...
Reading Complexity: Medium 
Astronomer Carl Sagan’s theory of why man believes in God (“The Amniotic Universe,” Atlantic Monthly, April 1979) is a rather old-fashioned speculation, but with a few new twists. Sagan says our ideas of God and the afterlife are no more than remembrances of states we experienced as infants emerging from our mother’s womb.
Before elaborating on his birth theory, Sagan is quick to admit that...