Scientists manipulate existing matter while ignoring the Creator; true knowledge seeks the eternal source of all things.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Morning Walk — July 25, 1975, Los Angeles 750725MW-LOS ANGELES [36:27 Minutes] Walk_750725MW-LOS ANGELES Prabhupāda: ...book? Rādhā-vallabha: It's back at the temple. I read it last night.
Prabhupāda: What is the subject matter? Rādhā-vallabha: Well, it seems that they're complaining that people are depending on faith for their knowledge. So their claim is that "We do not depend on this faith. We simply take a group of facts, and from these facts, this strong body of facts, we develop a theory which will explain them." Prabhupāda: Theory is not faith?
Theory is not faith? Jayādvaita: They say that the theory, it's simply an idea of how it could happen.
Prabhupāda: So that is faith. Jayādvaita: But they don't believe the theory until they think they have sufficient facts.
Prabhupāda: That is faith, I can say, blind faith. Rādhā-vallabha: These facts, these theories, are tested. By presenting more and more facts in the light of this theory, either the theory collapses under the new facts or it becomes strengthened. So by this method...
Prabhupāda: What are the facts? Rādhā-vallabha: Well, for example, you may see that living beings are reproducing geometrically. One couple produces two children; those children each produce two children; so in that way it appears that the animal population should be increasing geometrically. And we can see that... Prabhupāda: Who made that geometric? Devotee: Who made the geometry? Rādhā-vallabha: Who made the geometry?
This is all just going on. Prabhupāda: Ah, accident. [laughter] That's all. Rādhā-vallabha: So their observation is that even though this geometric progression of species is going on, still, the same amount of living beings in each species is remaining. So the theory to support this is that within each species there must be variations. And within these variations, certain ones are more favorable than others for survival.