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Philosophy: Evolution theory confirmed by Srila Prabhupada?

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      CommentAuthormishra
    • CommentTimeJun 24th 2008
     
    Srila Prabhupada Letter, 9 March 1970

    "Because of its being merged into water, it is natural to conclude that the beginning of life was aquatic. This is confirmed in Padma Purana that the species of life evolved from aquatics to plants, vegetables, trees; thereafter insects, reptiles, flies, birds, then beasts, and then human kind. This is the gradual process of evolution of species of life."
    • CommentAuthordeena
    • CommentTimeJun 24th 2008
     
    Yes confirmed. Speaking on this Padma Purana verse elsewhere, Prabhupada states that we believe in the evolution of consciousness. This consciousness is what accounts for the different forms of material bodies.

    "According to one's desires and activities, material nature places one in various residential quarters. The being himself is the cause of his attaining such residential quarters and his attendant enjoyment or suffering." Gita 13.21 purport.
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      CommentAuthormishra
    • CommentTimeJun 24th 2008
     
    I mean physical evolution...
    "it is natural to conclude that the beginning of life was aquatic. This is confirmed in Padma Purana that the species of life evolved from aquatics to plants"
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      CommentAuthorVEDA
    • CommentTimeJun 25th 2008
     
    After pralaya there is water everywhere so there are aquatic life forms. However, they don't spring out of matter but from superhumans:

    "From the womb of Timi [wife of Kasyapa] all the aquatics took birth..." SB 6.6.26
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      CommentAuthormishra
    • CommentTimeJun 25th 2008
     
    and then from aquatics, terrestrial "evolved" as in Darwin´s?
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    [quote][cite] mishra:[/cite]and then from aquatics, terrestrial "evolved" as in Darwin´s?[/quote]

    Prabhupada was always very critical of Darwin, so I would not jump to any conclusions.

    On Darwin's Theory:
    "He does not know. The apartment does not change. The owner of the apartment goes from one apartment to another. That he does not know. Therefore he's cheating. He does not, he has no perfect knowledge, and he's cheating. Cheater. He does not know. The soul, from the monkey's body is coming to human body. That is nice. Not that the monkey's body is changing into human body." His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada - Room Conversation with Dr. Christian Hauser, Psychiatrist September 10, 1973, Stockholm
    more here: http://science.krishna.org/Articles/2001/01/00243.html

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