Richard L. Thompson
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| Born | Richard Leslie Thompson February 4, 1947 Binghamton, New York, U.S. |
| Died | September 18, 2008 (aged 61) Gainesville, Florida, U.S. |
| Alma mater | Cornell University[1] |
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Richard Leslie Thompson, also known as Sadaputa Dasa'science and religion' community he was known for his articulation of ISKCON's view of science.[2] Danish historian of religion Mikael Rothstein described Thompson as "the single dominating writer on science" in ISKCON whom ISKCON has chosen to "cover the field of science more or less on his own".[7] C. Mackenzie Brown, professor of religion at Trinity University, San Antonio, Texas, described him as "the leading figure" in ISKCON's critique of modern science.[1]
Biography
Richard L. Thompson was born in
Vedic spiritual (or 'higher-dimensional') science."[1] He formulated ISKCON's view on the concept of "higher-dimensional science" and wrote extensively on scientific subjects from this perspective.[2] [9] In support of ISKCON's theology, he made research and analysis of the relation between the Vaishnava theological worldview and modern science.[10]
Thompson died of a heart attack on September 18, 2008. [11]
Forbidden Archeology
The coauthor Michael Cremo writes in the Preface to the first edition that the work's central claim, that anomalous paleontological evidence dating in many hundreds of thousands of years, with examples such as the
Laetoli footprints (generally considered by paleontologists to have been made by bipedal hominins) potentially stretching possibilities toward the low millions, suggests that modern human beings "perhaps ... coexisted with more apelike creatures." It also contends that the scientific establishment, influenced by confirmation bias, has suppressed fossil evidence of extreme human antiquity. These arguments has been criticized by mainstream scholars from a variety of disciplines.[12]
Selected bibliography
Books
- Thompson, Richard L. (1974). Equilibrium States of Thin Energy Shells. Providence, RI: American Mathematical Society. ISBN 978-0-8218-1850-3.
- Thompson, Richard L. (1981). Mechanistic and Nonmechanistic Science: An Investigation Into the Nature of Consciousness and Form. Lynbrook, NY: Bala Books. ISBN 978-0-89647-014-9.
- Goel, Narendra S.; Thompson, Richard L. (1988). Computer Simulations of Self-Organizations in Biological Systems. London: Croom Helm. ISBN 978-0-02-947922-3.
- Thompson, Richard L. (1989). Vedic Cosmography and Astronomy. Los Angeles: Bhaktivedanta Book Trust. ISBN 978-0892132690.
- Cremo, Michael A.; Thompson, Richard L. (1993). Forbidden Archeology: The Hidden History of the Human Race. San Diego: Bhaktivedanta Institute. ISBN 978-0-9635309-8-1.
- Thompson, Richard L. (1995). Alien Identities: Ancient Insights into Modern UFO Phenomena, 2nd Edition. Alachua, FL: Govardhan Hill Publishing. ISBN 978-0-9635309-4-3.
- Thompson, Richard L. (2003). Maya: The World as Virtual Reality. Alachua, FL: Govardhan Hill Publishing. ISBN 978-0-9635309-0-5.
- Thompson, Richard L. (2006). The Cosmology of the Bhagavata Purana: Mysteries of the Sacred Universe. Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass. ISBN 978-8120819191.
- Thompson, Richard L. (2007). God and Science: Divine Causation and the Laws of Nature. Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass. ISBN 978-81-208-3254-1.
Papers and other professional works
- Thompson, Richard (1980). "A Measure of Shared Information in Classes of Patterns". Pattern Recognition. 12 (6): 369–379. .
- Thompson, Richard (1984). "A Stochastic Model of Sedimentation". Journal of the International Association for Mathematical Geology. 16 (8): 753–778. S2CID 122598216.
- Thompson, Richard L.; Narendra S. Goel (1985). "A Simulation of T4 Bacteriophage Assembly and Operation". Biosystems. 18 (1): 23–45. PMID 3840704.
- Thompson, Richard L.; Narendra S. Goel (1988). "Movable Finite Automata (MFA) Models for Biological Systems I: Bacteriophage Assembly and Operation". Journal of Theoretical Biology. 131 (3): 351–385. PMID 3193776.
- Goel, Narendra S.; Richard Thompson (1989). "Movable Finite Automata (MFA): A New Tool for Computer Modeling of Living Systems". Artificial Life: The Proceedings of an Interdisciplinary Workshop on the Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems, Held September, 1987, in los Alamos, New Mexico, Edited by Christopher Langton: 317–340. ISBN 978-0-201-09346-9.
- Thompson, Richard; Narendra S. Goel (1990). "Biological Automata Models and Evolution II: The evolution of macromolecular machinery". Organizational Constraints on the Dynamics of Evolution, Edited by John Maynard Smith and G. Vida: 33–48. ISBN 978-0-7190-2670-6.
- Thompson, Richard L.; Narendra S. Goel (1998). "Two Models for Rapidly Calculation Bi-direction Reflectance of Complex Vegetation Scenes: Photon Spread (PS) Model and Statistical Photon Spread (SPS) Model". Remote Sensing Reviews. 16 (3): 157–207. .
See also
Notes
- ^ .
- ^ a b c Rothstein 1996, p. 122
- ISBN 978-0-941532-47-1. Readable online at Worldwisdom.com
- ^ Meera Nanda in the Indian magazine Frontline called Thompson and Michael Cremo "the intellectual force driving Vedic creationism." Vedic creationism in America Archived February 10, 2007, at the Wayback Machine. Frontline. January 14–27, 2006. Retrieved on August 18, 2008.
- ^ For example:
- ISBN 978-0-674-02339-0.
- Wodak, J.; Oldroyd, D. (1996). "'Vedic Creationism': A Further Twist to the Evolution Debate". Social Studies of Science. 26 (1): 192–213. S2CID 170662013.
- ^ Rothstein 1996, p. 126
- ISBN 978-5-89368-918-1.
- ^ "Bhaktivedanta Institute (Alachua): People". Bhaktivedanta Institute. Archived from the original on December 21, 1996. Retrieved July 18, 2011.
- ISBN 9788772892306.
- ^ "ISKCON Scientist Sadaputa Dasa Passes Away". Archived from the original on November 12, 2014.
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- Tarzia, Wade (1994). "Forbidden Archaeology: Antievolutionism Outside the Christian Arena". Creation/Evolution. 34: 13–25.
- Wodak, J. and Oldroyd, D. (1996) ‘Vedic creationism’: a further twist to the evolution debate. Social Studies of Science, 26: 192–213 (quoted passages, p. 196, 206-207)
- Morrow, Tom. Review of Forbidden Archeology's Impact by Michael A Cremo. RNCSE 19 (3): 14–17
References
- Brown, C. Mackenzie (2009), "Hindu Responses to Darwinism: Assimilation and Rejection in a Colonial and Post-Colonial Context", S2CID 195229923
- Henry, Granville C. (1984), "Review: Mechanistic and Nonmechanistic Science: An Investigation Into the Nature of Consciousness and Form by Richard L. Thompson",
- ISBN 978-87-7288-421-9
- Wodak, Jo; Oldroyd, David (1996), "Review: 'Vedic Creationism': A Further Twist to the Evolution Debate", S2CID 170662013
- Raman, Varadaraja V. (April 25, 2005), "Hinduism and Physics Merge in 'God & Science'", Science & Theology News, vol. 6, p. 42
Further reading
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- Marks, J. (1994). "Forbidden archaeology (review)". .
- S2CID 145515221.
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