Srila Prabhupada Speaks Out
It is a scientific fact. Our science is perfect, because we are receiving knowledge from the perfect source, Krsna. And modern so-called science is imperfect, because the scientists' knowledge is…
Easy Journey to Other Planets
The desire to go to other planets which has now become prominent is natural because the living being has the right to go to any part of the material or…
Man/Machine Interface
The computer police bring you before the android judge, who announces that his sibling system couldn't possibly be wrong and threatens to implant a few microchips in your brain for…
Do Scientists Have the Right to Play God?
"Our idea of God is a product of history." "Everyone now knows that the cosmology that is presupposed by the language of Christian utterance is quite unrelated to any…
The Philosophy of Dr. Frog
There was once a community of frogs living in a well. They knew nothing of the outside world. Then one day a young frog leapt out of the well. He…
Evolution—The God That’s Failling
Evolution, according to the Vedas, is the process of the gradual development of consciousness from body to body, until the civilized human form is reached.…
What Krsna Conciousness Means to a Secular Youth
A young reader of Back to Godhead expresses his realizations. by Christopher Stewart What is the purpose of living? Why are we here, and what should we do with our…
The Vedic Observer
Transcendental Commentary on the Issues of the Day An Eye For A Nose by Sita-devi dasi “What if scientists could distinguish scents with their eyes?” queries a recent report in…
Srila Prabhupada On Truth, Belief, and Science
Prove that chemicals make life. Your belief is that life is made from chemicals. So prove it; then it is science. But you cannot prove it; therefore it remains a…
Science Can Not Account for Consciousness and Complex Biological Forms
Modern mechanistic science rests on the premise that reality is ultimately reducible to a simple set of mathematical equations. Such a view fails to account for two important aspects of…
“The Ghost in the Machine” — Science
The prevailing view among modern scientists is that a human being is in essence a complex machine. According to this view, our life and consciousness have their source in the…
Exposing the Cult of Artificial Intelligence
Since behind the logic of artificial intelligence there must be a programmer, a director, what is the sense in saying that behind the logic of natural intelligence there is no…
Bhakti-Yoga as Nonmechanistic Science
Philosophies based on mundane sense perceptions lead us to believe that God must be remote and inaccessible - if He exists at all.…
NASA’s Space Shuttle — A Small Step for Mankind
The most advanced spacecraft ever built, the orbiter Columbia, rose from the launching pad at Cape Canaveral last April 12 and propelled the United States back into the space race.…
Nonmechanistic Science
Science conceives the brain to be the seat of all mental functions. According to Bhagavad-gita, however, the mind has an additional component (known in Sanskrit as manah, or "material mind")…
Chance and the Unity of Nature
"Probability is the most important concept in modern science, especially as nobody has the slightest idea what it means."—Bertrand Russell…
Evolution — A Doctrine in Search of a Theory
"All reputable evolutionary biologists now agree that the evolution of life is directed by the process of natural selection, and by nothing else." With these words Sir Julian Huxley summed…
The Computerized Mr. Jones — Can a machine be conscious?
Science fiction writers often try to solve the problems of old age and death by taking advantage of the idea that a human being is essentially a complex machine.…
In Nature There Are No Mistakes — Srila Prabhupada Speaks Out
In the laws of nature there are no mistakes. In railway cars there are first-class and second-class sections. If you purchase a second-class ticket but by mistake go to the…
Searching Past the Mechanics of Perception — Scientific Views
The process of perception begins when light from an object enters the eye and is focused on the retina. This light stimulates a series of neurochemical reactions that ultimately reach…
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