No God, No Knowledge; Know God, Know Knowledge
By Ajit Krishna Dasa
ARGUMENT
Premise 1: If a worldview is true it must be able to account for the preconditions of cognition and intelligibility.
Premise 2: Either the atheistic or the theistic worldview is the true worldview. Continue reading “Theism is the True Worldview”
By Ajit Krishna Dasa
Krishna consciousness is self-authenticating (svatah-pramana). It cannot be independently proven by any outside evidence. It is itself the only ultimate foundation of all evidences and proofs. So without presupposing the truth of God as He is presented in the Vedic scriptures we cannot understand anything. Continue reading “Vedic Epistemology Properly Understood”
By Ajit Krishna Dasa
Anyone declaring “God does not exist” winds up contradicting him- or herself in at least four significant ways:
1) By inadvertently supporting the existence of objective values
Imagine this: an atheist boldly claims, “God does not exist.” In doing so, he’s not just speaking—he’s choosing. He’s decided to make this particular statement over countless other things he might have said or done. In effect, he’s valuing this assertion above all other actions. But here’s the twist: Continue reading “The Self-Contradictory Claim of God’s Nonexistence”
“The Personality of Godhead Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa is in every living being along with the individual soul. And this fact is perceived and hypothesized in our acts of seeing and taking help from the intelligence.” (SB 2.2.35)
This is a profound verse!
By our intelligence we can know that Sri Krishna is in our own body. From the purport: Continue reading “Intelligence is Proof of God”
We wake up in this world realizing we have two urges that are innate qualities of our nature: Continue reading “Philosophers by Default”
THE IMPORTANCE OF LOGIC IN PREACHING
Naya-kovidah. Naya-kovidah means nyaya-nipuna. Bhagavad-dutas, those who are gosvamis, they place everything with nyaya, or logic. Continue reading “Logical Fallacies and Logical Ways of Thinking Explained by Srila Prabhupada”
Darwin’s doubt:
“With me, the horrid doubt always arises whether the convictions of man’s mind, which has been developed from the mind of the lower animals, are of any value or at all trustworthy. Would any one trust in the convictions of a monkey’s mind, if there are any convictions in such a mind?” [letter to William Graham, July 3rd, 1881]
“…why think for a moment that the beliefs dependent on or caused by that neurophysiology will be mostly true? Why think our cognitive faculties are reliable?” Continue reading “Naturalism is Self-Defeating”
Think twice if you believe in determinism: Continue reading “Determinism Can’t Be Rationally Affirmed”
By Ajit Krishna Dasa
Darwin – an objective scientist?
Darwin is often portrayed as a sort of textbook example of a perfect scientist who after objectively observing and studying the diversity of life came to conclude that the most logical explanation for this diversity is that life must have evolved over time from a common ancestor through natural selection.
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