From Science to God-Realization

building block. And the latest is the David Bohm era when more and more scientists are accepting consciousness to be the basic building block. These shifts have had inevitable consequences for the New Age philosophy, which has moved away from the philosophy of crass materialism to that of spirituality. The age of modern science dawned about hundred years ago in western Europe. Gradually, it came to be accepted that science was the most authentic description of reality. If science proves something, it is true and if an idea does not stand true on scientific principles then it must be false. In its initial years, science became the study of only the material world. Since religious truths cannot be proved on the basis of standard scientific arguments, religion came to be understood as unscientific. But the river of knowledge continued to move ahead until a time came when science came to be the study not only of the material world, but also the immaterial world. History has shown that the evolution of science helped in determining certain arguments and principles of reasoning which were universally accepted as true. There was further development in this direction and finally scientific findings indicated that the universe was the working of a superior intelligent being. A scientist has thus remarked: “The stuff of the world is mind-stuff.” In 1927 a Belgium scientist Georges Lemaitre proposed the theory of the Big Bang for the origin of the universe. This theory has now become an established scientific fact. In 1965 scientists discovered what is known as cosmic microwave background radiation. This was the remnant or the leftover radiation from the moment of the Big Bang, which has been scattered all over the universe. An American scientist Joel Primack said after observing the cosmic microwave background radiations: “The ripples are no less than the handwriting of God.” George Fitzgerald Smoot III (b. 1945) is an American