The Religion Superstition and Determinism

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The author, Dr.Ram Singh Sachem (b. 1945), after having earned Master's (1966) and Doctorate (1970) Degrees in Soil Science and Agricultural Chemistry, from the Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi, pursued his academic career in different capacities as teacher, researcher and extension specialist at G.B Pant University of Agriculture and Technology, Pant Nagar (Uttarakhand, India), in Technical University, Hannover (Germany, 1975-76) and at A.B.University, Zaria (Nigeria, 1982-85). He co- authored two books and more than 150 research papers and technical articles mainly in the field of soil science, plant nutrition and fertilizer management.

After superannuation in 2005, apart from his professional activities, he is focusing in the field of philosophy, which was very dear to him all through the life, He sports himself as a rationalist and Religious atheist Hindu with his own definitions of the words-religion as dynamic code of righteous living, atheist because he's stopped believing in the prevalent concepts of God and a Hindu because of his ethnic and geographical identity and descent.

Two of his earlier books on philosophy have been widely appreciated .He believes in the deterministic working of the self-regulated Primordial Energy according to the immutable known and yet to be known laws of physics without interference of any second outside agency, even God. He doesn't believe in 'soul' as extra-physical entity and in the absoluteness of the human free will. He advocates the necessity of love, compassion and concern towards others for the onward march of the sociobiological evolution and continuance of human species on earth.

Most of our spiritual and religious thinking and observances are based on the scriptures of different religions written, compiled and published centuries ago when the knowledge of mankind was limited to that point of time. All the physics, chemistry, biology and sociology was combined at that time. A lot of knowledge has been added to the pool of human experience since then. The explosion of knowledge particularly during the last three centuries has been phenomenal. The knowledge was, therefore, categorised into a large number of specialised fields of inquiry. The cosmology, astronomy, astrophysics, physics, chemistry, biology, genetics, microbiology, neurosciences, psychology and their branches and sub-branches are just a few to be named among the thousands of disciplines and sub-disciplines in which the knowledge is sub-divided. The researchers and specialists are making contributions in each of these fields and enhancing the over-all knowledge pool of the humanity. The philosophy, spiritualism and religious thoughts are included in different ways in a combined way as well as separately as distinct disciplines. Our concepts, definitions and perceptions of God, gods, goddesses, soul,, heaven, hell, re-birth, after- birth, re-incarnations, resurrection, salvation, deliverence, religious rituals, rites and ceremonies etc have undergone a sea change in view of the ushering in of the era of information explosion' and Speed and spread of communication'.

The book tries to include some of these issues in the light of present day scientific facts. It is hoped that the presentation will clarify many riddles of the human mind relating to these issues and help them develop an ideal philosophy of life and living- -individually as well as responsible members of society.

**Contents and Sample Pages**