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If there is any religion that could respond to the needs of modern science, it would be Buddhism.

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Albert Einstein (1879–1955) was a Germany-born theoretical physicist who revolutionized scientific thought with new theories of space, time, mass, motion, and gravitation. A 1921 Nobel Prize winner and considered by many to be the greatest scientist of the twentieth century, Einstein also held a central belief in the need for humanity in science and in the application of reason and compassion to curb the dangerous excesses of human ambition.

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Technology and the Age of Broken Tablets

We need to think about the values we treasure, the world we create and the tablets we are writing. The Torah must be both adopted and adapted in this new world. We stand again at Sinai, and the revelation, dark or bright, is in our hands.

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When a Buddhist Teacher Crosses the Line

The respected Tibetan teacher Mingyur Rinpoche explains Vajrayana ethics, how to find a genuine teacher, and what to do if a teacher crosses the line.

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Modern Islam and Science: An Article by Seyyed Hossein Nasr

In “Islam and Science,” an article written for the Oxford Handbook of Religion and Science, Nasr attempts to give a broad overview of the relationship of Islam to modern science and technology. He makes some key points regarding to criticism of Western science from an Islamic point a view.

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The Moral Landscape: Thinking About Human Values in Universal Terms

If there are more and less effective ways for us to seek happiness and to avoid misery in this world—and there clearly are—then there are right and wrong answers to questions of morality.

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Science Can Answer Moral Questions

Questions of good and evil, right and wrong are commonly thought unanswerable by science. But Sam Harris argues that science can—and should—be an authority on moral issues, shaping human values and setting out what constitutes a good life.

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The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values

In this highly controversial book, Sam Harris seeks to link morality to the rest of human knowledge. Defining morality in terms of human and animal well-being, Harris argues that science can do more than tell how we are; it can, in principle, tell us how we ought to be.

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