The Seeds of Reason by Sadaputa Dasa

Sep 1, 1993 | Sadaputa Dasa, Science: The Vedic View, Volume-27 Number-05

IN THE MID-NINETEENTH century Charles Darwin corresponded regularly with Asa Gray, a Harvard professor of botany who was an evangelical Christian. Gray was dedicated to scientific empiricism, but in those days he opposed the idea of the evolutionary transformation of... read more

Does God Go Against The Laws of Nature? by Sadaputa Dasa

Jul 1, 1993 | Sadaputa Dasa, Science: The Vedic View, Volume-27 Number-04

ERNAN MCMULLIN, a physicist, philosopher, and Catholic priest in the Department of Philosophy at Notre Dame University, has given careful thought to the relation between religion and modern science. In the introduction to his book Evolution and Creation, he... read more

Lifeless Vitalism by Sadaputa Dasa

May 1, 1993 | Sadaputa Dasa, Science: The Vedic View, Volume-27 Number-03

THE DISTINGUISHED British scientist Michael Polanyi speaks of something he finds "unbelievable." What is that? For three hundred years, he says, writers who contested the idea that life can be explained by physics and chemistry "argued by affirming that... read more

Consciousness and The New Physics by Sadaputa Dasa

Mar 1, 1993 | Sadaputa Dasa, Science: The Vedic View, Volume-27 Number-02

ALTHOUGH QUANTUM mechanics has been around since before World War II, many scientists refer to it as the new physics. They suggest that it conveys deep insights into the nature of consciousness, insights that confirm the mystical teachings of yogis and herald a new... read more

World Views: Vedic vs. Western by Sadaputa Dasa

Jan 1, 1993 | Sadaputa Dasa, Science: The Vedic View, Volume-27 Number-01

In The Late Eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, European scholars and scientists began to come in contact with the culture of India. Many were impressed by the antiquity of Vedic civilization and the deep spiritual and material knowledge contained in the Vedic... read more

On God and Science by Sadaputa Dasa

Nov 1, 1992 | Sadaputa Dasa, Science: The Vedic View, Volume-26 Number-06

IN A RECENT BOOK REVIEW in Scientific American, Harvard evolutionist Stephen Jay Gould points out that many scientists see no contradiction between traditional religious beliefs and the world view of modern science. Noting that many evolutionists have been... read more