TOVP Book of the Week #25
Thu, January 06, 2022
by Sunanda Das
In the world of modern science, consciousness is reduced to a fading epiphenomenon, left over after the brain has been physically explained.
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TOVP Book of the Week #24
Sat, December 11, 2021
by Sunanda Das
Signs of Life: A Semantic Critique of Evolutionary Theory By Ashish Dalela (Rsiraja Das) This book challenges the fundamental ideas in the Neo-Darwinian theory of evolution from the perspective of mathematics, physics, computing, game theory, and non-linear dynamics. It argues that the key ideas underlying evolution—random mutation and natural selection—are based on notions about matter,
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TOVP Book of the Week #23
Thu, November 18, 2021
by Sunanda Das
Stephen Hawking on Trial: Confronting the Big Bang By Pierre St. Claire (Vaiyasaki Dasa) The wee Doctor behind the electronic voice on trial? Stephen Hawking’s influence was significant. Nonetheless, renowned cosmologists have detected serious errors in his Grand Design theory of the universe. Stephen Hawking On Trial documents the flaws in the final theory of
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TOVP Book of the Week #22
Fri, October 22, 2021
by Sunanda Das
Life and Origin of the Universe (Vedanta and Science) By T.D. Singh, PhD (HH Bhaktisvarupa Damodar Swami) Since the dawn of civilization, all philosophical, scientific, religious and even artistic works, in principle, have centered around the study of life, its meaning and the origin of the universe. What is life? What is the origin of
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TOVP Book of the Week #21
Sat, September 25, 2021
by Sunanda Das
Life Comes from Life: Morning Walks with A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada Morning Walks with A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada In these morning walk conversations along Venice Beach, Los Angeles in the mid-1970’s, His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada reveals the Vedic understanding of life, consciousness and evolution. In fact, both matter and spirit
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TOVP Book of the Week #20
Thu, September 09, 2021
by Sunanda Das
Conceiving the Inconceivable: A Scientific Commentary on the Vedanta Sutra By Ashish Dalela (Rishiraja Dasa) Are life and the universe a mindless accident—the blind outworking of laws governing cosmic, chemical, and biological evolution? That’s the official story many of us were taught somewhere along the way. But what does the science actually say? Drawing on
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TOVP Book of the Week #19
Fri, August 20, 2021
by Sunanda Das
Evolution and Intelligent Design in a Nutshell By Thomas Y. Lo, Paul K. Chien, Eric H. Anderson, Robert A. Alston, Robert P. Waltzer Are life and the universe a mindless accident—the blind outworking of laws governing cosmic, chemical, and biological evolution? That’s the official story many of us were taught somewhere along the way. But
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TOVP Book of the Week #18
Fri, August 06, 2021
by Sunanda Das
Commentaries on 5th Canto Bhagavatam Cosmology By Dr. Dane Holtzman (Danavir Goswami) This Sanskrit classic was extensively referenced by His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada in writing his purports for the Fifth Canto of the Srimad-Bhagavatam. Now the entire compendium of commentaries [which includes those of Srila Sridhara Svami, Sri Viraraghavacarya, Srimad Vijayadhvaja Tirtha,
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TOVP Book of the Week #17
Sun, July 25, 2021
by Sunanda Das
God, Intelligent Design and Fine-Tuning By T.D. Singh (Bhaktiswarupa Damodar Swami) Is God no longer necessary in a world that is increasingly influenced by a scientific temper? Or, on the contrary, have the findings of modern sciences forced us to approach the question of the existence of God in new ways? The scientific enterprise has
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