Nature Itself Is Not Rational

[ethos]

From dialectic Spiritualism:

 

Hayagriva dasa: As soon as Huxley became a Darwinist, he rejected a supernatural god and the Bible, proclaiming that ?argument from design? had ?received its death blow.? Unlike spinoza, he did not accept a pantheistic God, but believed in ?the Divine government of the universe,? and felt that the cosmic process is rational and not accidental. Still, he rejected a personal God concerned with morality.

Srila Prabhupada: That is a mistake. Nature in itself is not rational; it is simply dead matter. A piece of wood is not rational, but the carpenter who shapes it is. the cosmic process may be rational, but this is only becasue there is a rational being behind it. that rational being is the Supreme Personality of Godhead. nature cannot be rational out of its own accord any more than a piece of wood can become a table without a carpenter.