d3u@psuvm.UUCP (04/25/85)
1. The International Society for Krishna Consciousness offers a book called
"The Science of Self Realization". In this case the true science is that which
takes one back to Godhead. One does this by practicing bakti yoga (devotional
service, not something based on putting one's body in various positions). By
practicing bakti yoga one is carrying out the experiment to see if Krishna con-
sciousness works (a skeptic would become at least partially enlightened and
will develop some Krishna consciousness by doing the prescribed things--
chanting the names of God, performing devotional service for God, giving up
meat eating, intoxication, illicit sex, gambling, ...). The devotees believe
this science of the soul to be better science than that those material sciences
in which new theories come to replace the old. Since the theories are changing,
scientists are seen as rascals who claimto have the Truth, but in actuality are
replacing one illusion with another and are misleading people in that sense.
(The Hare Krishna movement does not reject science blanketly, but say that
material sciences should be used in devotional service rather than to glorify
oneself or simply to make a living off it,etc., as these are merely material
ends. Technology and science should be used with consciousness that includes
God and isn't simply trying to control nature.)
2. Science as religion, e.g. evolutionism seen as being a faith just as
much as is a religion. Some individuals do seem to have a worshiping attitude
toward science as the revealer of the absolute truth about the world (universe,
cosmos, and Earth included). This is a personal conviction that is held onto as
fervently as are religious convictions, even though the science adulating ones
would deny having a religion.
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