Science & Religion Sessions Parliament of World Religions, Nov 1-7, 2018, Toronto, Canada 8000 Parliament Participants Session Chairs: Paul H. Carr, Mladen Turk Organizers: Maynard Moore (IRAS), Ron Cole-Turner (ISSR) -Possibility of Inclusion: science and religion. V.V. Raman -A real God in our scientific universe: Letting it teach us about God. Nancy E. Abrams. -Climate, carbon, and “Ground of All Being.” Paul H. Carr -Food scarcity, safety, imbalance, and population challenges. Solomon Katz -Ordinary faith, ordinary science. Nobel Laureate William Phillips -Re-invisioning hope. religious naturalism. Carol Wayne White -Science and ethics of CRSPR gene editing for future generations. Janet Rossant & James Peterson -The Rabbi’s Brain: Neurotheology & Compassion. Andrew Newberg & Rabbi David Halprin -The origin of evil & the brain network. William Shoemaker -The new search for life in our galaxy. Michael Summers. -Science, religion & global justice. Fraser Watts -Understanding science through participation. Grace Wolf-Chase PLENARY SESSION: PEOPLE OF FAITH FOR OUR EARTH

1. Science & Religion Sessions
at the Parliament of World Religions, Nov 1-7,2018.
8000 Parliament Participants
Session Chairs: Paul H. Carr, Mladen Turk
Organizers: Maynard Moore (IRAS), Ron Cole-Turner (ISSR)

2. Lake Ontario from the Toronto Convention Center where the Parliament was held.

3. Science & Religion Session Titles
• Possibility of Inclusion: science and religion.
V.V. Raman
• A real God in our scientific universe:
Letting it teach us about God. Nancy E. Abrams
• Climate, carbon, and “Ground of All Being.”
Paul H. Carr
• Food scarcity, safety, imbalance, and population challenges.
Solomon Katz
• Ordinary faith, ordinary science.
Nobel Laureate William D. Phillips
• Re-invisioning hope, religious naturalism. Carol Wayne White

4. • Science and ethics of CRSPR gene editing for future generations.
Janet Rossant & James Peterson
• THE RABBI’S BRAIN: Neurotheology & Compassion
Andrew Newberg & Rabbi David Halprin
• The origin of evil & the brain network. William Shoemaker
• The new search for life in our galaxy. Michael Summers.
• Science, religion, & global justice. Fraser Watts
• Understanding science through participation. Grace Wolf-Chase
PLENARY SESSION: PEOPLE OF FAITH FOR OUR EARTH

5. Paul & Pauline at Science & Religion Booth

6. Speakers V V Raman (former IRAS President), Nancy Abrams, & Mrs. Raman

7. POSSIBILITY OF INCLUSION: Science & Religion,
by V.V. Raman, Former IRAS President.

9. Nancy E. Abrams presenting
“The Unifying Potential of a Real God in the Scientific Universe.”

10. It was only through a twelve-
step program that I discovered
how exploring the idea of
higher power, even without
believing in it, could empower
me to do what I had never been
able to do before, overcome my
food addiction.
The clear goal of my book, is to
present a scientifically
impeccable yet personally
empowering way to think about
God in the modern age.

11. Abrams expands on Jung’s
idea that we have a
capacity for God, the use of
a symbol to express the
universal need for
meaning.
She sees God as a real and
emergent phenomenon.
It is up to us to tame it, as
we have tamed fire, and
this is a project for science.
“We need to let the
universe teach us about
God,”

12. Humans are in the center
of the length scale.

13. IRAS Members: Tafik Mustafa, Sol Katz, Nancy Abrams
Langar, simple vegan meal served daily and free to thousands at the Parliament

14. The SIKH Community provides Langar Meals regularly all over the world.

15. Solomon Katz. “Food Scarcity and Population Challenges”
Food variety of hunter-gathers replaced by recipes.

16. Climate, Carbon, & ”Ground of All Being”
Paul H. Carr

17. PAUL TILLICH:
CLIMATE PROPHECY versus PROFIT
2016 AAR Paper by Paul H. Carr
Paul Tillich’s 1962 sermon delivered in
the Harvard Memorial Church, “Man and
Earth,” was prophetic. He said,
“ We have no guarantee against man-
made floods….”
Floods are increasing. Ice is melting
raising sea levels.

18. The Hebrew word ‫(אדמה‬adamah) is the feminine form of ‫אדם‬meaning "ground" (see
Genesis 2:7). “And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground.”
We are made of stardust.

19. Ginny (right) talking to a nurse at our IRAS-ISSR booth.
Nobel Laureate Bill Phillips (red tie) speaking about his talk “Ordinary Faith, Ordinary Science.”

20. Nobel Laureate Bill Phillips presenting
“Ordinary Faith, Ordinary Science”n”

21. Carol Wayne White. “A Religious Naturalist’s Perspective:
Re-invisioning Hope, Climate Change, & Learned Ignorance”

22. Jean Rossant & James Peterson answer questions about CRSPR in
their paper:
“Gene Editing Our Children & their Children:
Genes, Justice, and Future Generations.”

23. THE RABBI’S BRAIN: Neurotheology & Compassion.
Andrew Newberg & Rabbi David Halprin
During meditation(R), the orientation area of our brain is deactivated,
The activity in our pre-frontal cortex of higher-purpose is enhanced.
Baseline Meditation

24. William Shoemaker. “The Origin of Evil and the Brain Network”

25. Dr. Shoemaker introduced the Social Brain Network, also called
the Moral Brain Network. These regions of the brain and their
interconnections are responsible for our social (or moral)
behavior. These include empathy, kindness, respect for others,
compassion -- in other words, our social conscience.
The first finding, by Kent Kiehl, using brain scans, was that there
is a particular deficit in the social brain network of many serial
murders incarcerated in prison. It later developed that the
deficit was in orbital-frontal cortex, and all those afflicted were
psychopaths.
More recent, MRI studies of adolescent youth with callous-
unemotional traits and conduct problems yielded a high number
with the same brain abnormality. Dr. Shoemaker presented a
hypothesis of how this brain situation could be developing from
early childhood.

26. 6/19/2019
The New Search for
Life Beyond Earth
Michael E. Summers
Professor of Planetary Science
and Astronomy,
Prof Summers in the exhibit area.
On the exoplanets,
it is likely we will
find life forms that
have adapted to
environmental
extremes similar to
those we have
observed on Earth

27. Tardigrades (Water Bears)
6/19/2019 27
Sarah Bordenstein of the Marine Biological Laboratory at Woods Hole
writes that they can withstand temperatures from -328 °F (-200 °C) up to
304 °F (151 °C), lack of water and oxygen, “boiling alcohol,” (who
thought of that?), and a thousand times the radiation we can take.
https://blog.nationalgeographic.org/2013/08/02/5-extreme-life-forms-that-live-on-the-edge/

28. LIFE ON EARTH
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 Life is highly adaptable.
 Much of life on/inside the Earth is of the form we
refer to as extremophiles.
 The first form of life on Earth was almost certainly
an extremophile.
 The Earth has been an extreme environment for
almost all of its history!
 All life on Earth needs three common things: Liquid
water, usable energy, and raw materials – with most
biological molecules based upon the element carbon.

29. SCIENCE, RELIGION, & GLOBAL JUSTICE
Frazer Watts, UK
Moez Masoud, Egypt, Visa Application Not Approved in Time.
Attitudes towards science are intertwined with a global sense of
injustice. Science is seen as dominated by the developed world,
which can lead to antagonism toward it. In the Muslim world,
attitudes toward science become enmeshed in the battle
between secularism and religious conservatism, and are often
based on identity and justice rather than evidence and logic.
(The presenter will argue for a fruitful interplay between Islam
and science, taking evolution as a key example.) From a Christian
perspective, another presenter will emphasize the importance of
open-mindedness in both science and religion, and its
contribution to justice and reconciliation.

30. Grace Wolf-Chase “Understanding Scientific Discovery through Participation”

31. “Faith for the Earth: Role of Faith, Faith Leaders and People
of Faith In Preservation of Our Planet”
Sadhvi Bhagawati Saraswati, Ph.D., spiritual leader in India,
speaking, how vegans can save our earth.
Rabbi David Rosen, far left, gave a passionate speech on
saving our planet, starting right now!
PLENARY SESSION: 500 attendees

32. Sadhvi Bhagawati
Saraswati, Ph.D., is
a female spiritual leader in
India. She is President of
Divine Shakti Foundation
empowering women and
children.. Originally from
Los Angeles, and a graduate
of Stanford University,
Sadhviji has lived in the
Himalayas for 22 years,
where she gives spiritual
discourses, Satsang,
meditation, and leads
humanitarian programs.

33. Rabbi David Rosen is the
international director of
Interreligious Affairs of the
American Jewish Committee.
-He is a member of the Chief
Rabbinate of Israel's Committee for
Interreligious Dialogue and serves
on the Council of Religious
Institutions of the Holy Land.
-He is the international president of
the World Conference on Religion
and Peace, honorary president of
International Council of Christians
and Jews, and the Jewish
representative of the Board of King
Abdullah International Center for
Interreligious and Intercultural
Dialogue.
-Pope Benedict XVI bestowed upon
him a Papal Knighthood for
contribution to Catholic-Jewish
reconciliation

34. 34
Of the 100 ways of
reducing global warming
the following were rated:
3. Reduced Food
Waste
4. Plant-Rich Diet

35. STOP EATING RED MEAT: BEEF AND PORK
Agriculture accounts for 24% of our greenhouse emissions.
• Cattle & pigs emit the greenhouse gases methane, CH4. They eat
grains needed for humans.
• In addition, deforestation—clearing land for crops, for instance—
removes trees that pull CO2 out of the air,

37. 10/9/15
www.
CitizensClimateLobby.org
- Revenue neutral
carbon fee with
dividend. (RNCFD)
-Dividend would be
returned to
everyone.
$2000 / family.
-Stimulating economy
& creating 2 million
jobs.
- Stimulate Green
Energy Innovation.
True social cost of burning fossil fuels.
Harness Greed towards Green

38. http://www.theclimateribbon.org

39. Science & Religion Session Titles
• Possibility of Inclusion: science and religion.
V.V. Raman
• A real God in our scientific universe:
Letting it teach us about God. Nancy E. Abrams
• Climate, carbon, and “Ground of All Being.”
Paul H. Carr
• Food scarcity, safety, imbalance, and population challenges.
Solomon Katz
• Ordinary faith, ordinary science.
Nobel Laureate William D. Phillips
• Re-invisioning hope, religious naturalism. Carol Wayne White

40. • Science and ethics of CRSPR gene editing for future generations.
Janet Rossant & James Peterson
• THE RABBI’S BRAIN: Neurotheology & Compassion
Andrew Newberg & Rabbi David Halprin
• The origin of evil & the brain network. William Shoemaker
• The new search for life in our galaxy. Michael Summers.
• Science, religion, & global justice. Fraser Watts
• Understanding science through participation. Grace Wolf-Chase
PLENARY SESSION: PEOPLE OF FAITH FOR OUR EARTH