Bahulāśva: He said that from his scientific studies he is feeling frustrated. So he made a public statement that he is going to give them up for studying God. He says that he feels that everything indicates in the universe that there must be a supreme intelligence behind the workings of the universe.
Prabhupāda: Very intelligent man. He is intelligent. As soon as one denies the existence of God, immediately he comes within the category of four classes of men: sinful, rascal, lowest of the mankind and knowledge taken away by māyā.
Bahulāśva: The four classes that never surrender unto Kṛṣṇa.
Prabhupāda: Yes. Or do not admit the existence of God.
Paramahaṁsa: To assume that there is no God is basically nonscientific.
Prabhupāda: Yes.
Paramahaṁsa: Because they're denying an entire field of study.
Prabhupāda: Yes. Therefore they are rascals.
Yadunandana: The reason why the western world is so much involved in science is because the religions that have been presented here in the West have cheated the people economically...
Prabhupāda: No, why cheated? The Christian religion says God created.
Devotee (4): But the followers do not practice this idea. The original idea is very nice.
Prabhupāda: No, they became over-intelligent by so-called education.
Bahulāśva: Over-intelligent?
Prabhupāda: Yes.
Bahulāśva: How is that?
Prabhupāda: Over-intelligence means rascal. Intelligence is good, but over-intelligence means rascal.
Bahulāśva: How does that happen, when he becomes over-intelligent?
Prabhupāda: Over-intelligent, it is sarcastically said. More than intelligent.
Bahulāśva: Oh. Speculative.
Prabhupāda: Yes.