Articles by Bhakti Niskama Shanta
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Why Biology Is Beyond Physical Sciences?
Bhakti Niskama Shanta, Ph.D. and Bhakti Vijnana Muni, Ph.D. - Sri Chaitanya Saraswat Institute, Scientific & Academic Publishing,
8 Feb 2016
In the modern era, to study an organism, scientists have mainly adopted Descartes’ ontological view of the organism as a complex machine. The continued usage of physicalist science to comprehend biological systems is the biggest hurdle in the path of understanding life. The materialistic understanding of reality depends on natural laws, mathematics, determinism, and reductionism. This materialistic science has continually failed to provide a theory for biology.
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Bhakti Niskama Shanta, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Oct 2015
9 Oct 2015 – In the past, philosophers, scientists, and even the general opinion, had no problem in accepting the existence of consciousness in the same way as the existence of the physical world. After the advent of Newtonian mechanics, science embraced a complete materialistic conception about reality.
→ read full articleDoes Current Biology Have the Misfortune of Owning an Unreliable Clock?
Bhakti Niskama Shanta, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 May 2013
On April 2013, the prestigious Cell Press Journal Current Biology published an article entitled “A Revised Timescale for Human Evolution Based on Ancient Mitochondrial Genomes”. This paper has twenty authors and they are researchers from the world’s top institutes like Max Planck Institute, Harvard, etc. In the present article the author discusses a few significant fallacies of the methodology employed by this paper.
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Bhakti Niskama Shanta, PhD – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Feb 2013
Natural Selection Lost in the Midst of Genetic Forest and Epigenetic Trees – Darwin’s Morphological Tree of Life (TOL) is Replaced with Genetic ‘Forest of Life’
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Bhakti Niskama Shanta Swami, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Jan 2013
At various times in its history, ‘spontaneous generation’ has been identified by two different concepts. They are: (a) abiogenesis, and (b) heterogenesis. Abiogenesis is the field of science dedicated to study how life might have arisen spontaneously for the first time from inorganic chemicals. On the other hand, the notion that life can arise from dead organic matter, such as the appearance of maggots from decaying meat is known as heterogenesis. For a long time major western thinkers like Newton, Harvey, Descartes and von Helmont accepted heterogenesis with full confidence.
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