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Articles: Vol 2. Issue 1 (2009-2010)

The World As I see It - by Albert Einstein (Einstein Essay)

The religious geniuses of all ages have been distinguished by (this)kind of religious feeling, which knows no dogma
and no God conceived in man's image; so that there can be no Church whose central teachings are based on it. How
can cosmic religious feeling be communicated from one person to another, if it can give rise to no definite notion of
a God and no theology?

Dawkins' Dilemmas - Deluded or not Deluded? - by Michael Austin (Ph.D)

It is fair to say that in The God Delusion Richard Dawkins presents his atheism as a vehement protest against theism. If
‘atheism’ refers to the belief system that denies the existence of the living God of biblical revelation, any reading of his
book quickly shows that Dawkins’ atheism is focused. And it is focused on what he most dislikes - biblical Christianity

In God's Company (Short Story) - by Saberi Roy

A Short Story on God's agenda for the Universe, originally written in 2007.

"Man is his own History" and Self-knowledge - By Emanuel L. Paparella, Ph.D.

Since Descartes Western thought has been dominated by a rampant rationalism which, with the possible exception of
Nietzschean romantic anti-rationalism culminating with existentialism, has had a peculiar view of the relationship
existing between a knowing experiencing subject (the self) and the objects and events around it (the observable world)
which it perceives and knows.

Growing Into Creative Mastery Through Kabbalah - by Bob L ancer

Those who achieve the highest levels of creative mastery convey a sense of the heavenly, the miraculous, the divine through their
creations. That is because as one develops mastery in the creative world, one advances into the highest of the four worlds, called
"Olam Atziluth", meaning, World of Emanation or World of Origins.

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Articles: Vol 1. Issue 1 (2008-2009)

Nothing, Nothingness and Zero - by Dr. Willie Maartens

Non-Being {0} is not Non-Existence { }, but rather Existence in a state devoid of attributes, qualities, or activities, as far
as manifestation is concerned {0, 1, 2, …}, although all possible manifestation must be latent therein – in fact, the
meaning of Non-Being may be stated as ‘Being, in Latency’.

Mathematics of Hindu God - by Chanchal Malviya

Science has opened up the secrets of materialistic world. But humans are yet ignorant about whatever is not-material.
No religion dares to describe God with materialistic features, except Hinduism.

Aether - The Physicalists' God - by Laurent Duchesne

Aether is but does not exist as matter, it is before spacetime, before the Big Bang, Inflation, a CMB... etc. It is not matter,
therefore, notions like motion, size or duration are not applicable, time does not apply. It is outside the rules of
spacetime. Aether becomes through matter.

Religion, Science and Social Progress -   by Saberi Roy

If we use a term by Thomas Kuhn, then a ‘paradigm shift’ in the sciences bringing about changes in the concept of
matter and causality would in turn affect the concept of God as the first cause. So if there is a change in the concept of
God, I can see all religions based on the personal concept of God being incompatible with the changes in the sciences.

Freud and Religion -   by John Smethers, Ph.D

Twelve-step programs, such as Alcoholic's Anonymous, advocate "God, as we understood him." This leaves God open to
interpretation. AA members can view God in any way they want and still be accepted in mainstream society by using the term
'God'. However, many of those do not consider themselves religious. It would be interesting to know how much of the population
believe in the God of traditional religious theory like that of the Christian faith (creationists), and how many believe in the term God
to describe an entity that does not comply with the traditionalists.

Sources of Theology in Africa -     by Dr. Leopold A. Foullah

Africa with its diverse cultures and unique worldviews has its own sources in discussing God. Any guide to the pursuit
of an African Theology in the Christian tradition needs be surveyed from God's perspective with an underlying African
worldview

God and Science -    by Sam Vaknin, Ph.D

If neurons were capable of introspection and world-representation, would they have developed an idea of "Brain" (i.e.,
of God)? Would they have become aware that they are mere intertwined components of a larger whole? Would they
have considered themselves agents of the Brain - or its masters? When a neuron fires, is it instructed to do so by the
Brain or is the Brain an emergent phenomenon, the combined and rather accidental outcome of millions of individual
neural actions and pathways?

God and the Necessity of Religion -     by Saberi Roy

Contrary to what most people think, explaining (or refuting) the pattern or design in the universe scientifically with
evolution or explaining the workings of the body with genetics are not the ultimate questions that apparently separate
science and religion.