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One more on Hinduism

Posted on December 2, 2015 by Praj / 3 Comments

I’ll wrap up my Hinduism series by returning to the question that inspired it all: I would be interested in how Hindu theologians and scientists square th...

Misc

Where was Kurukshetra?

Posted on November 22, 2015 by Praj / 5 Comments

This spring I started re-reading the Mahabharata for the first time since I was about twelve years old. It is a Hindu epic that culminates in a war between two ...

Misc

The intellectual vs the experiential

Posted on November 4, 2015 by Praj / 1 Comment

Thanks to everyone for their fantastic comments on my last post on Hinduism. They were humbling to read and think about. There’s too much good stuff there...

Misc

On intellectual faiths

Posted on October 29, 2015 by Praj / 15 Comments

I’m about to write a sentence that might offend some of you. I know it may do so because when I realized what I believed I became offended. I spent a long...

Misc

Religion as doing vs thinking

Posted on October 26, 2015 by Praj / 8 Comments

I’ve been asked many times if I ‘believe’ in Hinduism. Until about 15 I mechanically answered yes. During my bout with rabid atheism I just as...

Misc

On my Hinduism

Posted on October 14, 2015 by Praj / 6 Comments

My writing here might suggest I care about religion in the context of science, or evolution in relation to creationism. But those interests came much later. For...

Evidence

Dr. K Responds

Posted on April 22, 2015 by Praj / 5 Comments

Dan Kahan graciously responded to my post about Hindu doctors who believe in astrology (of which there are many I assure you!): The Pakistani Dr leaves nonaccep...

Evidence/Values

Useful is better than true

Posted on October 23, 2014 by Praj / 1 Comment

To reflect a bit more on astrology…I wonder why exactly my mother should embrace modern cosmology and reject Hindu astrology. Would it make even the sligh...

Evidence/Values

Astrology does work for some people

Posted on October 21, 2014 by Praj / 3 Comments

As I return from a long blogging break, I thought I’d briefly turn away from creationism and instead discuss astrology. I was inspired by Phil Plait’...

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