Life Comes from Life

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'I say to the scientists /If life originated from chemicals, and if your
science is so advanced, then why can t you create life biochemically in your laboratories?'
"They have discovered atomic energy. Mow they can kill millions at
once. They have simply cleared the way for death. And yet they dare to declare that they will make life!"

ff^or people who have come to accept * every pronouncement of modern scientists as tested and proven truth, this book will be an eye-opener. Life Comes From Life is an impromptu but brilliant critique of some of the dominant policies, theories and presuppositions of modern science and scientists by one of the greatest philosophers and scholars of the century, His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada. ^rila Prabhupada's vivid analysis uncovers the hidden and blatantly unfounded assumptions that underlie currently fashionable doctrines concerning the origins and purpose of life.
^rila Prabhupada (1896-1977) is an internationally recognized author, scholar and spiritual leader, and he is widely esteemed as India's greatest cultural ambassador to the world. In Life Comes From Life, ^rlla Prabhupada takes the role of philosopher-social critic. With philosophical rigor, profound common sense and disarming frankness, he exposes not only modern science's methodological shortcomings and unexamined biases but also the unverified (and unverifiable) speculations that scientists present to the trusting public as known fact. Thus ^rlla Prabhupada breaks the spell of the materialistic and nihilistic myths which, masquerading as science, have so bewitched modern civilization.






As a scientist, teaciier and researcher in the fields of physics L. and medicine, I warmly welcome this fascinating and provocative new publication from the Bhaktivedanta Book Trust. We live in an age in which many great achievements have been made in various fields of science. However, as Swami Bhaktivedanta repeatedly warns in these morning conversations, we scientists should not be overly proud and suppose that we have found the answers to all fundamental questions, or even that we will find them in the near future. His warning is particularly well taken when directed toward those who claim that science has either found or will soon find the ultimate secret of life. The experiences of physicists in the twentieth century have shown the danger of prematurely thinking that we have attained final answers. And what is true of physics is even more true of the fields of biology and medicine, where we are dealing with the marvels of life.
We may lead ourselves down a blind alley by adhering dogmatically to the assumption that life can be explained entirely by what we now know of the laws of nature. As Swami Bhaktivedanta points out, this assumption negates the spiritual dimension of human life and thus denies people the benefits that can be obtained by cultivating spiritual understanding. This assumption may also impair the development of science itself by restricting our freedom of thought. By remaining open to the ideas embodied in the Vedic tradition of India (a tradition so ably represented herein by the Swami), modern scientists can see their own disciplines from a new perspective and further the real aim of all scientific endeavor: the search for truth. D. P. Dubey
Biophysicist, Sydney Farber Cancer Institute Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts

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