In2-MeC

Wroclaw, Poland
12 November 2004

You've probably seen this already. . .

It's posted at

http://magma.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0411/feature1/index.html

and, since it features a quotation from HDG Srila Prabhupada, it's been circulating around Pamho. net.

Evolutionary theory, though, is a bit different. It's such a dangerously wonderful and far-reaching view of life that some people find it unacceptable, despite the vast body of supporting evidence. As applied to our own species, Homo sapiens, it can seem more threatening still.

Many fundamentalist Christians and ultra-orthodox Jews take alarm at the thought that human descent from earlier primates contradicts a strict reading of the Book of Genesis. Their discomfort is paralleled by Islamic creationists such as Harun Yahya, author of a recent volume titled The Evolution Deceit, who points to the six-day creation story in the Koran as literal truth and calls the theory of evolution "nothing but a deception imposed on us by the dominators of the world system. " The late Srila Prabhupada, of the Hare Krishna movement, explained that God created "the 8,400,000 species of life from the very beginning," in order to establish multiple tiers of reincarnation for rising souls. Although souls ascend, the species themselves don't change, he insisted, dismissing "Darwin's nonsensical theory. "

Other people too, not just scriptural literalists, remain unpersuaded about evolution. According to a Gallup poll drawn from more than a thousand telephone interviews conducted in February 2001, no less than 45 percent of responding U. S. adults agreed that "God created human beings pretty much in their present form at one time within the last 10,000 years or so. " Evolution, by their lights, played no role in shaping us.

Only 37 percent of the polled Americans were satisfied with allowing room for both God and Darwin--that is, divine initiative to get things started, evolution as the creative means. (This view, according to more than one papal pronouncement, is compatible with Roman Catholic dogma. ) Still fewer Americans, only 12 percent, believed that humans evolved from other life-forms without any involvement of a god.

The most startling thing about these poll numbers is not that so many Americans reject evolution, but that the statistical breakdown hasn't changed much in two decades. Gallup interviewers posed exactly the same choices in 1982, 1993, 1997, and 1999. The creationist conviction-- that God alone, and not evolution, produced humans--has never drawn less than 44 percent. In other words, nearly half the American populace prefers to believe that Charles Darwin was wrong where it mattered most.

108 Names of Radha-Krishna
Astottarsat Namavali

1. Sri Radhagolok Viharine Namah

2. Sri Radha Kunja Viharine Namah

3. Sri Radha Nikunjavilasaya Namah

4. Sri Radhavallabhaya Namah

5. Sri Radhayugalaviharine Namah

6. Sri Radha Madana Mohanaya Namah

7. Sri Radha Damodaraya Namah

8. Sri Radha Muralidharaya Namah

9. Sri Radha Govindaya Namah

10. Sri Radha Gopinathaya Namah

11. Sri Radha Kantaya Namah

12. Sri Radha Syam Sundaraya Namah

13. Sri Radha Gopijanavallabhaya Namah

14. Sri Radha Bhaktavatsalaya Namah

15. Sri Radha Goverdhanadharaya Namah

16. Sri Radha Vrndavana Sancarine Namah

17. Sri Radha Yamunakula Viharine Namah

18. Sri Radhacira Samharine Namah

19. Sri Radha Hrdayacauraya Namah

20. Sri Radha Gopidukula Cauraya Namah

21. Sri Radha Kesibhanjaya Namah

22. Sri Radha Dhirasamira Viharine Namah

23. Sri Radha Pataye Namah

24. Sri Radharadhayitre Namah

25. Sri Radha Citta Pramodakaya Namah

26. Sri Radha Cittasammohanaya Namah

27. Sri Radha Mohanatatparaya Namah

28. Sri Radhahrdayambhojasatpadaya Namah

29. Sri Radha Chintanasammohanaya Namah

30. Sri Radha Nartanakautukaya Namah

31. Sri Radhakamaphalapradaya Namah

32. Sri Radhanam Cintakaya Namah

33. Sri Radharadhanatatparaya Namah

34. Sri Radhasevana Kusalaya Namah

35. Sri Radha Mukhabjamartandaya Namah

36. Sri Radha Yasodanandanaya Namah

37. Sri Radha Nandanandaya Namah

38. Sri Radha Devakisutaya Namah

39. Sri Radha Vasudevaya Namah

40. Sri Radha Bhandira Vana Viharine Namah

41. Sri Radha Ramanaya Namah

42. Sri Radha Sampujakaya Namah

43. Sri Radha Dhyanarataya Namah

44. Sri Radha Sarveshvaraya Namah

45. Sri Radha Vamshivataviharine Namah

46. Sri Radha Jagannathaya Namah

47. Sri Radha Vrajavallabhaya Namah

48. Sri Radha Bhaktasamraksanaya Namah

49. Sri Radha Yogisvaraya Namah

50. Sri Radha Sharanagata Vatsalaya Namah

51. Sri Radha Padaprapujakaya Namah

52. Sri Radha Jagatpataya Namah

53. Sri Radha Rasaviharine Namah

54. Sri Radha Rasarasesvaraya Namah

55. Sri Radha Rasaratikaraya Namah

56. Sri Radha Mohanaya Namah

57. Sri Radha Cittacintamanaye Namah

58. Sri Radha Samkalpasuradrumaya Namah

59. Sri Radha Premapradaya Namah

60. Sri Radha Bhaktakripakaraya Namah

61. Sri Radhasaksigopalaya Namah

62. Sri Radha Hrsikesaya Namah

63. Sri Radha Sakhisahasresaya Namah

64. Sri Radha Gopisvaraya Namah

65. Sri Radha Ranganathaya Namah

66. Sri Radha Navaniradabhaya Namah

67. Sri Radha Pitambaradharaya Namah

68. Sri Radha Vanamaline Namah

69. Sri Radha Varhavatamsakaya Namah

70. Sri Radha Purnacandraya Namah

71. Sri Radha Candrananaya Namah

72. Sri Radhanana Saundaryapriyaya Namah

73. Sri Radha Mukhacandracakoraya Namah

74. Sri Radha Kaustubhadharaya Namah

75. Sri Radha Purnendusundaramukhaya Namah

76. Sri Radha Nityalilalitaya Namah

77. Sri Radha Lalitesvaraya Namah

78. Sri Radhastasakhinartakaya Namah

79. Sri Radhadadhicauraya Namah

80. Sri Radhatribhangalalitaya Namah

81. Sri Radha Gokulanathaya Namah

82. Sri Radha Vrajesvaraya Namah

83. Sri Radha Tulasipriyaya Namah

84. Sri Radha Divakaraya Namah

85. Sri Radhasnehaviharine Namah

86. Sri Radha Vasanta Viharine Namah

87. Sri Radha Davanala Viharine Namah

88. Sri Radha Nrtya Gopalaya Namah

89. Sri Radhananta Viharine Namah

90. Sri Radha Balagopalaya Namah

91. Sri Radha Kamadhenupriyaya Namah

92. Sri Radha Makarakrtikundalaya Namah

93. Sri Radha Kuncitakesaya Namah

94. Sri Radhadharasudhapanarataya Namah

95. Sri Radha Navanitacauraya Namah

96. Sri Radha Giridharagopalaya Namah

97. Sri Radhanantagopijanaparivestitaya Namah

98. Sri Radha Lalitasekharaya Namah

99. Sri Radha Vrajarajasutaya Namah

100. Sri Radhamukhapadmadinesaya Namah

Sri-Sri Radha-Vrndavana Candra

101. Sri Radhagopalacudamanaya Namah

102. Sri Radhanayanakamalarcitadehaya Namah

103. Sri Radha Pasupangajaya Namah

104. Sri Radhavrndavan Viharine Namah

105. Sri Radhanikunjasimhasanarajitaya Namah

106. Sri Radha Vrajaikamandanaya Namah

107. Sri Radha Nityakunjavilasine Namah

108. Sri Radhagolokdhamdhipataye Namah

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