Evolution -- From Scientist to Monkey!

Darwin's theory of evolution
We have not found the "missing links"
Banishing God and building a "Brave New World"
Are we any happier than our forefathers?
Nature is not blind
This world is designed to frustrate us!
Scientists have good intelligence, but they are misusing it
Evolution of consciousness, not evolution of species
Evolution working backwards?

Darwin's theory of evolution
The scientists are generally very fond of Charles Darwin's work on natural selection and evolution of the species. It was only after Darwin's theory of evolution became widely accepted the scientific community had a reasonably plausible explanation of the development of the diverse forms of life we see around us without any divine direction or intelligence behind it. His work was quickly accepted by all atheistic men and practically it is the support of the modern godless technological world.

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We have not found the "missing links"
Darwin himself admitted there was no proof for his theory of one species gradually evolving into another species in the fossil record at the time of writing his thesis, but he was sure as time went on the "Missing Links" would be found. The subsequent fossil evidence has done nothing to support his theory. There are unlimited specimens which contradict the idea of natural selection altogether and no proof to support a continuous chain of slightly different species evolving from one form to another. It is just not there in the fossil record. So why have the supposedly intelligent scientific community not rejected the idea of evolution of the species? The only answer is the alternative is to accept some sort of divine direction and that is generally unpalatable in our hedonistic world.

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Banishing God and building a "Brave New World"
We want to enjoy our senses to the maximum and science is about facilitating this sense gratification by exploiting the natural resources of this planet and exploiting the energy of the general mass of people by engaging them in working in factories, laboratories, hellish cities and other degraded situations to build the scientists "Brave New World." Practically they have succeeded in building a new world with money and sense gratification as the worshipable objects and God practically banished altogether.

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Are we any happier than our forefathers?
But what have they achieved? Certainly we can now drive in fast cars, fly from one side of the planet to the other quickly and play video games on our home computer, but are we any happier now than our forefathers one hundred years ago. My answer would be unquestionably no, definitely not. We see signs of despair and anxiety everywhere. Crime, murder, rape and suicide levels are climbing alarmingly, killer diseases like AIDS and cancer are claiming more and more victims despite the helpless scientists feeble attempts to stop them. War and social and political strife is affecting a large percentage of the earth's population... in other words the world is in a big mess. We have not benefited at all from the so-called advances of science.

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Nature is not blind
Nature is not blind. There is an intelligent direction behind nature and there is a purpose for life here in the material world. This world is manifested to give us, the rebellious living entities, a chance to live separately from God and became false lords and masters. We want to be god so Krishna, the real God, has built this material world. It's something like a child's playground. We can come here and fulfil our desires of becoming the lord and master. But there's a catch. This world is actually more like a prison than a playground. Although the material energy is very attractive the actual pleasure substance we are searching for cannot be found here. That pleasure, or ananda, can only be found in the spiritual world, the kingdom of God. So this world is a place of rectification.

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This world is designed to frustrate us!
We can come here and fulfil our material desires to some extent but the material nature is constructed in such a way to frustrate all our attempts in the long run. The idea is we keep on coming back here to the material world birth after birth and keep on trying to enjoy our senses but we are always frustrated in the end. After many births of frustration an intelligent person can see there is actually no pleasure in the material world so he looks for something else, something spiritual.

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Scientists have good intelligence, but they are misusing it
Scientists are actually misusing their God-given intelligence. They certainly have good intelligence but such intelligent men are meant to be trained as Brahmins to become experts in the Vedic scriptures so they can learn and teach actual scientific knowledge which can really solve all the problems of the people on this planet. When people become frustrated with material life there has to be someone to tell them about spiritual life so these intelligent men should be doing this. They should use their intelligence to spread Krishna consciousness but instead they are just encouraging people to become more and more animalistic.

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Evolution of consciousness, not evolution of species
According to the Vedic knowledge there is evolution but it is not evolution of the species as Darwin proposed, but evolution of consciousness. As the fossil record clearly shows there are no intermediate forms between one species and another. The Padma Purana describes there are 8,400,000 species of life within this universe. Every species is existing at all times but they may not all be present on any given planet. There are unlimited planets in this one universe and we have information that beyond this universe there are unlimited other universes also. This universe is one of the smallest. There are many universes much larger than this one. But everywhere in the material creation these 8,400,000 species of life exist. The forms already exist on the subtle platform even if they are not physically manifested. This universe is going through cycles. Sometimes it is manifested and sometimes it is unmanifested but even when there is no manifested material world all the forms of the 8,400,000 species of life are still there on the subtle platform.
Every species of life is one step on the ladder of the evolution of consciousness. The soul in every species of life is equal in quality and quantity with the others, it is only due to the consciousness of a particular living entity that he takes a higher or lower body. If I ask the real questions one is meant to in this human form of life, which are: "Who am I? What is the purpose of life? What is spirit? Who is God?" then I am bound to be elevated to a higher platform of consciousness in the next life.

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Evolution working backwards?
If, however, I misuse this human form of life and live like the monkeys, simply looking for the material necessities of life, namely eating, sleeping, sex life and defence, then I am no better than a monkey and I will take a monkeys body in the next life.
The scientists don't know about this "backward" evolution. They are heading backwards in the evolution of consciousness because they are using their God-given intelligence for facilitating the animal propensities in an advanced, scientific way instead of using it for advancing spiritually. As a result of their misuse of their intelligence they are going backwards on the evolutionary path and will find themselves in the bodies of monkeys in their next lives.

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