ONE EVENING ONLY: SPECIAL GUEST: His Grace Drutakarama Prabhu
(AKA Michael Cremo)
SUNDAY JUNE 23rd 6:PM @ HARE KRISHNA TEMPLE

Drutakarma Prabhu will conduct a power-point presentation on science and religion as related in his new book.

Drutakarma Dasa (Michael Cremo) was initiated by His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada in 1976.
 
In 1977 he began writing articles for Back To Godhead magazine and has been an Associate Editor for BTG for over twenty years.

In 1979 he began collaboratively writing books such as Coming Back and The Higher Taste Cookbook for the BBT. In 1984 he joined the Bhaktivedanta Institute, Srila Prabhupada's science preaching mission, working with Sadaputa dasa and others on the Origins magazine project.

His books include Forbidden Archeology, The Hidden History of the Human Race (both coauthored with Sadaputa dasa, Forbidden Archeology's Impact, Human Devolution, The Forbidden Archeologist, and My Science, My Religion..
He has presented papers at the Royal Institution of Great Britain, the World Archeological Congress, the European Association of Archeologists, the Russian Academy of Sciences, the International Congress for History of Science, and other scientific institutions and conferences.

He’s appeared on numerous documentaries such as The Mysterious Origins of Man, Ancient Aliens, Atlantis: Secret Star Mappers of a Lost World and hundreds of media interviews. He lectures widely at universities throughout the world. A member of the Sastric Advisory Committee for the GBC, he offers classes and seminars to devotees throughout the world on Science and Krishna Consciousness.

My Science, My Religion

 

Drutakarma dasa (Michael A. Cremo) offers a unique power-point presentation based on his newest book, My Science, My Religion (Torchlight Publishing 2012), a collection of papers he’s presented at major international conferences on archeology, anthropology, consciousness studies, history of science, and history of religion.

 

There are many people who believe that science and religion are two entirely separate domains. This is especially true of those influenced by positivism, which holds that real knowledge can only be obtained through positive verification of ideas by material sense evidence. According to positivists, and similar schools of thought, science and religion should not mix. Michael Cremo disagrees with that point of view, instead asserting that science and religion have often mixed, as many historians of science are now recognizing. In their preface to Science in Theistic Contexts: Cognitive Dimensions, historians of science John Hedley Brooke, Margaret J. Osler, and J. M. van der Meer say (2001, p. vii): “As recently as twenty years ago, when scholars were in the thrall of positivism in its various forms, they emphasized the separateness of science and religion. . . . Today the history of science is no longer dominated by positivist assumptions. Social, cultural, economic, political, philosophical, and religious factors have all been shown to be intimately connected with the growth, support, and even conceptual development of science.” It is a modern myth that religion and science have nothing to do with each other. Einstein (1954, p. 46) famously said, “Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.”

 

Scientists and historians of science can take this material as a case study of how a particular individual with a particular religious perspective has integrated that perspective into his presentations to members of scientific disciplines concerned with human origins, history, and culture, at professional gatherings of those disciplines. Michael Cremo’s papers certainly demonstrate that religious perspectives on scientific questions do have a presence in contemporary scientific discourse.

More information about Drutakarma prabhu visit his web page: http://www.mcremo.com/