'Jeopardy!' host Mayim Bialik opens up on being both 'a scientist and a person of faith' on her podcast
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA: 'Jeopardy!' host Mayim Bialik has been consistently vocal about being a person of faith and has made social and political commentary about the same. She has brought the conversation around to her popular podcast 'Bialik Breakdown'.
In a recent episode of the podcast, Bialik got into a discussion around the much-debated mutual exclusivity of faith and science as someone who was involved in the field of neuroscience herself. The episode took a philosophical turn as the host unpacked complex ideas surrounding religion and scientific fact along with the pathologist Dr Neil Theise.
Mayim Bialik's belief in 'Oneness'
In asking a question to her guest for the day, Dr Theise, Bialik shared her own views on being repeatedly questioned about her belief in God. The 'Big Bang Theory' actress went on to take a break from her career in Hollywood to pursue further education, even up to a doctorate in neuroscience.
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"My understanding of what is divine is the exact structures that you're talking about," she said referring to Theise's theory, "I find the beauty in the fact that everything breaks down to atoms and neutrons and you know all like that to me is I don't need any more proof. People always ask how can you be a scientist and a person of faith. There's not even a question for me because as sure as electrons exist just I am observing them trying to come up with equations to understand them you know I mean it's like it's a non-issue for me."
Dr Theise on Bialik's equation of science and faith
The NYU Professor then went on to respond to Bialik's approach to the matter of a united power behind the complexities of multiple theories. "People who have an interest in science, who have shared our cultural notion that science empirical Science and Mathematics are the surest way to know the true nature of reality quantum physics," Dr Theise said.
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"I think we're not a machine science and math don't explain everything," the academic continued, "One of the ways to get there that's been useful for me is when the mind turns inward what does it find. It finds a greater mind and that's the mind we call it in our writing fundamental awareness that's just pure awareness out of which space-time itself arises out of which the quantum foam and the quantum particles arise out of and self-organize themselves the way ants and cells do into atoms into molecules into the whole universe. So, it's a pointer that this is the structure of reality, and underlying it all is this one fundamental awareness that's pure awareness, and as it contemplates itself we spring into existence"