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Life:
A Chance Biochemical Combination?

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Grass and water!

By ingesting grass and water, the scientist cow produces gallons of milk daily. The cow scientist has been creating milk from grass and water since time immemorial, but the modern scientist to date has been unable to discover the secret formula of the scientific cow and thus although scientists claim chemical interaction is the basis of all material phenomena, they cannot produce even a single glass of ordinary milk from the chemical ingredients used by the cow scientist to produce gallons of milk daily for years on end.

Why? A common substance, milk, made of two common ingredients--grass and water--it should be a simple task to produce milk. Yet scientists are unable to do it. The illiterate, uneducated cow effortlessly produces milk daily in abundance with nothing more than air, grass and water.

The following exchange was published in 1977 under the title "The Challenge" as a chapter in the book Life Comes From Life by A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, refuting the atheists' assertion that life comes from matter and not from spirit.

• Sunday Times August 21, 1977:
  "It's Beyond Kovoor's Power of Observation"
  by Hansadutta das and Mahakanta das

• Sunday Times August 28, 1977:
  "It's Not Beyond Kovoor's Power of Observation"
  by Dr. Abraham Kovoor

• Sunday Times September 4, 1977:
  "The Challenge Still Stands"
  by Hansadutta das

• Letter to Dr. Abraham T. Kovoor
  of the Sri Lanka Rationalist Association
  from Hansadutta das--September 6, 1977

• Letter to Hansadutta
  from Dr. Kovoor--September 10, 1977

• Letter to Dr. Abraham T. Kovoor
  from Hansadutta--September 15, 1977

• Letter to Dr. Abraham T. Kovoor
  from Hansadutta--September 21, 1977

Denial of God

The most important is Krishna. If you know Krishna, you know everything.

Children look upon everything with great curiosity and eagerness to learn. Everything is immensely important to them. But as they grow up and are thrust into the impersonal, mechanized world, they are taught to become indifferent, without feeling or emotion. The teachers kill the sensibility and compassion inherent within the child. The Bible says we must become like children before we can enter into the kingdom of God. We have to become as innocent as children. We have to see the importance of everyone and everything in relation to Krishna.

Scientists say that God is just an explanation for things we cannot understand. In one sense they are correct. God cannot be understood, not completely. God is He who cannot be understood. And certainly God will not stand under you! You have to stand under Him, and when you take that lower position, you may get some realization. Stand under His lotus feet.

Atheists are saying, "There's no God" or "I'm God" or "God is void." Really though, they're all thinking of God just the same. Even the atheists are God conscious, but their attitude is wrong. Everyone is actually the devotee of God, and when one becomes perfectly God conscious, he will see how everyone is in fact serving God, even the atheists and demons, but he sees that they have the wrong attitude. From time to time the burden of the world has to be relieved, and some very powerful demons have to be killed, so along comes a Napoleon or an Oppenheimer. Why should God bother to come Himself, when He can send even the most godless person and inspire him to make an atom bomb which will kill the godless people?

We are living in terrible times, so we should become serious about getting out of here, going back home, back to Godhead. Chant Hare Krishna and become perfect.