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Deepak Chopra and Leonard Mlodinow: War of the Worldviews

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Why Is Science Great? It Illuminates God, Says Chopra

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Author and spiritual leader Deepak Chopra discusses the role of science in his system of beliefs. While scientific advances in areas like medicine are important, he explains, "God is much more awesome ... thanks to science."
Leonard Mlodinow: Religion and the Evolution of Science

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Physicist Leonard Mlodinow distinguishes between what he sees as the roles of science and religion in understanding the world. While some find spirituality useful for explaining some of the things science can't, he explains, problems arise when spiritual answers are given to material questions.
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-Paz-

Posted: 12.16.11, 08:19 PM

Hmm good points. I have never had the pleasure meeting a religious person that wasn't a hypocrite.

Presque_Vu

Posted: 11.12.11, 04:47 PM

Sorry, but what a vain and cheap trickster Deepak Chopra is. At every one of his bold statements that began with "science cannot...", I found myself saying "yet". His entire argument seems to rest on the assumption that consciousness, including how it appears or is represented in the brain, is forever out of the reach of science. How does this differ from the Christians' worship of gaps? Chopra worships them too; maintaining that god, or at least human spirituality, is just beyond the reach of all human inquiry. There's every reason to think that given enough time, Chopra's views will become as redundant to people in the (hopefully not too distant) future, as those of Thomas Aquinas or Martin Luther are to us, today.