SRIMAD BHAGAVATAM - Prabhupada

Text 56) Hirm:tyaka8ipu, King of the Demons 119however, in the guise of a small boy, has already explained that althoughhis mother left him uncared for and wandering in the forest, the tigersand other ferocious animals had not eaten him. The real fact is that if theSupreme Personality of Godhead protects one, even though one bemotherless and fatherless, one can be maintained by the good will of theLord. Otherwise, if the Supreme Lord does not give one protection, onemust suffer in spite of the presence of his father and mother. Anotherexample is that sometimes a patient dies in spite of a good physician andgood medicine. Thus without the protection of the Lord one cannot live,with or without parents.Another point in this verse is that fathers and mothers have protectivefeelings for their children even in bird and beast society, not to speak ofhuman society. Kali-yuga, however, is so degraded that a father andmother even kill their children in the womb on the plea of their scientificknowledge that within the womb the child has no life. Prestigious medicalpractitioners give this opinion, and therefore the father and motherof this day kill their children within the womb. How degraded humansociety has become! Their scientific knowledge is so advanced that theythink that within the egg and the embryo there is no life. Now these socalledscientists are receiving Nobel Prizes for advancing the theory ofchemical evolution. But if chemical combinations are the source of life,why don't the scientists manufacture something like an egg throughchemistry and put it in an incubator so that a chicken will come out?What is their answer? With their scientific knowledge they are unable tocreate even an egg. Such scientists are described in Bhagavad-gitd asmdyayapahrta-f iina, fools whose real knowledge has been takenaway. They are not men of knowledge, but they pose as scientists andphilosophers, although their so-called theoretical knowledge cannot producepractical results.TEXT 56 irew weq'imQ.fir;n .. hlid(qib64(ij' m: f est : 11'-\11