No God, No Knowledge; Know God, Know Knowledge
By Ajit Krishna Dasa
Abstract
Rational debate can only take place between worldviews that are internally coherent. And atheism, in whatever shape it takes, is not. It is self-contradictory. Continue reading “Evolution or Creation – Who is Qualified to Speak?”
By Ajit Krishna Dasa
Question:
“If there’s one God, why are there more than 4,000 religions?”
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
Atheistic claim:
Theists cannot prove the existence of spirit. We only have experience with matter.
Rebuttal:
Continue reading “Atheists Cannot Prove the Existence of Matter”
A person who says “God does not exist” contradicts himself in at least three ways: Continue reading “The “God Does Not Exist” Self-Contradiction”
“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”
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”
