The Two Faces of Time

The Two Faces of Time

We measure time in terms of the movements of physical objects. The time the earth takes to orbit the sun we call a year. The time the moon takes to orbit the earth we call a month. And the time the earth takes to revolve on its axis we call a day.

How God Creates the Universes

How God Creates the Universes

When Lord Maha-Visnu, a plenary expansion of Lord Krsna, exhales, innumerable universes emanate from Him. Within each of these universes Maha-Visnu expands Himself as Garbhodakasayi Visnu and lies down on the water that fills half of each universal shell.

Evolution: Puncturing The “Jerk Theory”

Evolution: Puncturing The “Jerk Theory”

That the punctuated equilibrium theory has gained so much popularity among sociobiologists indicates just how unconvincing and inconclusive the evidence is for the traditional evolutionary belief. Neither theory can explain the gaps in the fossil record; therefore, both lack credibility.

What’s Wrong With Animal Rights?

What’s Wrong With Animal Rights?

Animal Rights people feel that the time has come to stop man’s tyrannical “dominion” over animals. They disagree with the traditional notion that animals are meant to serve man’s ends.

Computers: Microchip Mentors

Computers: Microchip Mentors

It annoys me how the ads try to portray computers, which are really nothing more than hunks of plastic, wiring, solder, and microchips, as personalities capable of delivering the highest knowledge.

Man/Machine Interface

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 even suggesting such a thing. Such errors, he says, went out with Univac.

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 empirical reality.” And: “The God of Judeo-Christianity is, in all His aspects … anthropomorphic.”

The Philosophy of Dr. Frog

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 came to the beach and saw the ocean, he was astonished and he rushed back to the well to report his discovery.