Dr. T. D. Singh

  • Conversations on Intelligent Design and Fine-tuning

    What about the argument within the scientific communities that the universe is fine-tuned? You yourself have mentioned that our universe is very special and unique. The fundamental constants, especially, are made in such a unique way; any slight change in these constants might lead to a completely different type of universe.

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  • Theobiology

    Theobiology is an attempt to generate open and healthy dialogue among scientists, scholars, and great thinkers of the world regarding the knowledge of the origin and nature of life and consciousness in contrast to purely materialistic science. It presents a comprehensive and comprehensible explanation of life, matter, and their interactions.

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  • Bioethics, Science of Life, and Spirituality

    This article is a transcript of a converstation which took place in 2004, between Dr. T. D. Singh, Founding Director of the Bhaktivedanta Institute, and Prof. Arthur L. Caplan, Connolly Mitty Professor of Bioethics at New York University’s Langone Medical Center. It covers themes such as euthanasia, abortion and the role of religion in bioethics.

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  • Vedanta and Epistemology

    In the scientific approach to knowledge, an empirical logic based on experiments, observations and inferences is fundamental. In Vedanta, this process is called aroha-pantha or ascending process. But this process has its own limitations.

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  • Vedanta and Embryology

    There is a significant description about the science of embryology in Vedantic literatures. Srimad Bhagavatam, mentions a brief description of human embryology.

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  • Nature of Life and Matter

    According to Vedanta, there is another reality in nature different from matter. It is the fundamental spiritual particle (called atman in Vedantic terminology), which the author has coined as “spiriton.” It is a transcendental particle and is ontologically different from matter.

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