After I see the review of our ebook –"Biggan O Dhormo- Shonghat naki shomonnoy?" by Dr. Biplab Pal in YouTube, I decided to include two articles in Chapter 5. One article is written by Aparthib, titled, "Bibortoner Drishtite Noitikotar Udbhob" (Origin of ethics in light of evolution) where he explained that all human instincts it is rooted in the evolutionary biology of human over millions of years. Natural selection gives rise to those human instincts that help in its survival and propagation as a species. He showed in his article quite comprehensively that human species itself is a product of evolution via natural selection, so morality also has to be part of that natural selection too. It is part of simply being human, no matter whether or not one believes in God or any other form spirituality. His article can be accessed from here:
Bibortoner Drishtite Noitikotar Udbhob: Aparthib
http://www.mukto-mona.com/project/Biggan_dhormo2008/chap5/biborton_noitikota_aparthib.pdf
In another article, Diganta Sarkar soved the puzzle of Atruism in nature that baffled the biologists for a long time. For a "Selfish Gene" perspective the puzzle becomes particularly obvious. After all, how can a gene achieve its selfish objective of becoming more frequent in the gene pool by making its bearer behave altruistically? Diganta Sarkar has an answer for this puzzle. Here is his article:
Sharthopor Gene er Aloke Shohojogita ebong AtmoTyag: Diganta Sarkar
http://www.mukto-mona.com/project/Biggan_dhormo2008/chap5/selfish_gene_diganta.pdf
Prof. Ajoy Roy has written an exceptional article dealing Science and God. As a physicist he believes a basic principle very kin to agnosticism. This is a principle of impossibility, which slowly but steadily found place in physics. There are certain things in material phenomena, which can not be, achieved, prove or made by men. In thermodynamics there are two well known such principle: Impossibility of making machine which generates perpetual motion impossibility of achieving the absolute zero degree temperature. There are other examples also: no material particle can exceed the speed of light c. Another is the Uncertainty principle according to which no two canonically related physical quantities can be measured with 100% certainty at a time. There are certain things whose existence cannot be proved by doing experiments in inertial frames: examples - existence of absoluteness of space time. Eater, an entity conceived by 18th century physicists as a vehicle of propagation of light can be a case in point. But no experiment of physics could prove its existence. God, according to him, is such an entity whose existence can not be proved from the material frame of reference. Agnosticism is precisely the same principle. In philosophy, the doctrine that a first cause and the essential nature of things are unknowable to us the material human beings. As a Physicist, he feels he is an agnostic. The entity, which cannot be proved from a material frame, does not exist to him - it is a meaning less entity, an unnecessary concept even in philosophical or theological sense- as is ether a useless concept in physics. He also explained the philosophy of theism, skepticism, deism etc. in broader details. Philosophy of Richard Dawkins, Victor Stenger, Francis Colins, Paul Kurtz and many others came in his discussion. His article can be accessed from here:
Bigganer Dhormo ebong Iswar Proshongo: Ajoy Roy
http://www.mukto-mona.com/project/Biggan_dhormo2008/chap1/religion_ofScience_Ajoy.pdf
I hope the readers will find the articles worthy and this will make our ebook more interesting and versatile.
Avijit
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Sign the Petition : Release the Arrested University Teachers Immediately : An Appeal to the Caretaker Government of Bangladesh
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Daily Star publishes an interview with Mukto-Mona
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Mukto-Mona Celebrates 5th Anniversary
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Mukto-Mona Celebrates Earth Day:
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MM Project : Grand assembly of local freedom fighters at Raumari
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German Bangla Radio Interviews Mukto-Mona Members:
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