Friday, 29 July 2016

CHARLES DARWIN:

The British scientist Charles Darwin (1809-1882) laid the foundation of modern evolutionary theory with his concept of the development of all forms of life through the slow-working process of natural selection. His work has exerted a major influence on the life sciences and earth sciences and on modern thought in general.
Darwin tried to show how the origin of living species could be fully explained by the purely mechanical,unplanned action of natural forces. By the process he called "natural selection", all the higher,complex forms of life gradually evolved from more primitive and rudimentary ones. In a given animal population,for example, some individuals will have traits that make them adopt better to their environment; these more fit individuals will survive to pass on their favorable traits to their offspring. The unfit will gradually be weeded out naturally.Thus a cold climate will favor those who have,say,long hair or fatty tissue, and the species will then gradually evolve in that direction.
Everything in nature has a plan or design, and behind that plan or design is a brain,a very big brain.
For example, a frog may lay thousands of eggs, but out of all of them only a few may survive to adulthood. Those who do are more fit than the others. If the environment did not favorably select the fittest, then too many frogs............A snake gives birth to scores of snakes at a time,and if all were allowed to exist, there would be a great disturbance. Therefore,big snakes devour the small snakes. That is nature's law. But behind nature's law is a brain. That is our proposition. Nature's law is not blind,because behind it there is a brain,and that brain is God.
Whatever is taking place in material nature is being directed by the Supreme Lord, who maintains everything in order. The economic theory of Malthus states that whenever there is overpopulation, there must be an outbreak of war, epidemic,famine or the like to curb it.
Scientists say life arose out of four basic elements: carbon,hydrogen,nitrogen and oxygen.
If the basic principle is chemicals,who made the chemicals?
That question should be asked.
Apelike men or manlike apes are still existing now,alongside human beings. If one thing has been developed by the transformation of another thing,then that original thing should no longer be in existence. When in this way a cause has produced its effect,the cause ceases to exist. But in this case we see that the cause is still present,that there are still monkeys and apes. At the present moment both simple and complex forms are existing. One did not develop into the other. For example,my childhood body has developed into my adult body, and the child's body is no longer there. So if the higher, complex species developed from the simpler,lower species, then we should see no simple species. But all species are now existing simultaneously. We accept evolution, but not that all forms of the species are changing. The bodies are all already there, but the soul is evolving by changing bodies and by transforming from one body to another. I have evolved from my childhood body to my adult body,and now my childhood body is extinct. But there are many other children.
Similarly,all the species are now existing simultaneously,and they were all there in the past.
The soul is evolving, transmigrating from one compartment to another compartment,simply changing place.
Darwin hit upon his theory because of what he observed on his voyage in 1835 to the Galapagos Islands, off the coast of South America. He found there species that exist nowhere else.

>NB: Since the time of Darwin up to the present, scientists have found abundant archaeological evidence indicating that human beings lived millions of years ago, long before the Darwinian evolutionists say they did. However, because this evidence contradicts Darwinian theories,it tends to be omitted in science texts written by Darwinists. 

References:  i). Forbidden Archaeology, by Michael Cremo and Richard Thompson.
                    ii). The Bhaktivedanta Book Trust.

Monday, 27 June 2016

SOREN KIERKEGAARD:

Soren Kierkegaard (1813-1855) is generally regarded as the father of existentialism. His concern with individual existence,choice and commitment profoundly influenced modern Western theology and philosophy.
Kierkegaard, a devoult christian, believed that religious truth is not innate within man and that man must therefore recieve this truth from God. But he thought that God would overawe us if He Himself came to teach. Therefore Kieekegaard said that God comes instead as His own servant in human form. For a christian, this teacher is Jesus Christ.
"Engage your mind always in thinking of Me, become my devotee, offer obeisances to Me, and worship Me. Being completely absorbed in Me, surely you will come to Me." This is God's demand. And if we carry it out we attain perfection.
Kierkegaard observed three basic stages in life: the aesthetic stage, the ethical stage and the religious stage. In the first stage -the aesthetic stage -a person may be either a hedonist in search of sensual pleasure or an intellectual intereasted in philosophical speculation. Kierkegaard says that both are uncommitted. Neither has any ultimate goal in life.
Kierkegaard says that people on this platform are not really philosophers but simply mental speculators. They become bored with themselves,and their lives become empty of meaning and full of despair. Despair is a result of impersonalism and voidism. Impersonalists and voidists must necessarily be overcome by despair, because they are always disgusted with their lives and because they do not know the goal of life. When one has no goal he becomes dissapointed, and that dissapointment is the cause of despair.
Kierkegaard sees this despair as the first stepping stone toward self-realization. Understanding that the aesthetic life ends in despair, in hopelessness, a person abandons this type of life for the next stage.
According to Kierkegaard, to attain self-realization we must confront certain choices -we must become aware that life is an "either/or" proposition. Realizing this,we advance to the second stage -the ethical stage. At this point we take an active part in dealing with life rather than aimlessly taking pleasure from life. We may act piously or attempt humanitarian deeds.
For Kierkegaard, the important thing is not so much what one chooses but that one makes the choice. Through choosing one discovers his own integrity.
Kierkegaard believed that if we begin to anticipate death, we will make the right decisions. In other words, we should act in such a way that we consider each act to be our last. In this way, he believed the truth will emerge. No one wants to die, but death overcomes everyone.
For Kierkegaard, faith in God developes when the soul is willing to stand transparent before God in his full integrity. Standing transparent before God means engaging in God's service. But to engage in God's servive we must understand that we are His parts and parcels. Just as each part of the body engages in the service of the entire body, so every living entity is meant to engage in the service of God. As soon as you engage in God's service, you are self realized.
Kierkegaard sees self-realization arising out of the expression of the will. He thought that the more self-realized a person is, the more powerful is his will and the better he is able to make proper decisions.
Concerning individuality,Kierkegaard wrote,"God is the origin and wellspring of all individuality. This individuality is the gift of God through which He permits me to be, and through which He permits everyone to be."
God is a living being, and we are also living beings. Just as He is eternal, we are also eternal. But the difference is that whereas qualitatively we are the same, quantitatively we are different.
God is infinite, and the living entities are infinitestimal. Therefore,all the living entities are being maintained by God. We are all individual and eternal parts of God,so our natural position is to serve Him and to love Him.
Our only business is to love God, and a first-class religious system teaches its followers to love God without ulterior motive. Such worship cannot be checked by material considerations. In any condition we can love God,and God will help us to love Him.