What do you say when your child or a student asks you where birds and other animals came from? If you are educating and teaching them on a Vedic basis, you might quote to them Bhagavad-gita 10.6, where Krishna answers thus: “The seven great sages and before them the four other great sages and the Manus [progenitors of mankind] come from Me, born from My mind, and all the living beings populating the various planets descend from them.”
Perhaps you will also show interested young people the related chapters of the Srimad-Bhagavatam, which, uniquely among the scriptures of the world, show in detail the method God and His helpers employ in the repeated manifestation of the species in the ages of the world.
A difficulty, however, is that ISKCON members often live in a cultural context where schools and media, in turn, promote a modern version of Darwinian theory. According to this theory, plants, animals, and human beings evolved from common ancestors over a long period of time as a result of a series of small changes. The contradiction between the Vedic and evolutionary explanations can cause confusion in the mind. How can we dispel this confusion?
We are fortunate that in recent decades there has been a library of literature showing that even modern versions of evolutionary theory have shortcomings that call into question the validity of the whole theory.
What is more, there are already hundreds of pages of quotations from prominent representatives of various fields of biology, pointing out the inherent contradictions and hypothetical nature of evolutionary theory.
So, there is no need to fear that by doubting evolution, we will be seen as unscientific; rather, it is science and logic that provide strong arguments against gradual evolution and for a higher origin of species. Some of the books presented below were written by ISKCON authors, and others were written by experts in the field of science.
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