Rāmeśvara: Śrīla Prabhupāda? The trees, they produce seeds, and the seed drops on the ground, and then another tree comes.
Prabhupāda: That's all right.
Rāmeśvara: There's no father. Simply . . .
Prabhupāda: There is no father. That I understand. But the tree is coming from the earth. So that is in anywhere. Just like the father gives the seed in the womb of the mother, and she produces the body and it comes out. The seed is coming from the father. And that is explained in the Bhagavad-gītā: bījo'haṁ sarva-bhūtānām (BG 7.10). The seed comes from the father, that you cannot deny. Mother, without seed, cannot be pregnant and cannot give child. That is our experience. Nature is mother, and the seed is given by the father.
Rāmeśvara: In science, the biologists teach that there are small animals, very small, called amoebas. And when they reproduce, they simply divide themselves into two; there is no sex, there is no father.
Prabhupāda: That's all right. So two or three or four or five coming from the life. The amoeba is a life. Not that from any stone it is coming. The life is coming from life, but in a different way.
Rādhā-vallabha: Previously the scientists used to say that they would put dirty laundry and rotten garbage in a box, then a few weeks later they would find rats. So they said that rats are made from garbage. So then everyone . . . this was presented as a very laughable theory. And then the next theory that was presented as the actual one was that life came from chemicals.
Prabhupāda: First of all, life comes from rats. (laughs) Every year, they are changing their theories.
Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: Actually, their philosophy came from rats.
Prabhupāda: Hmm? What is that philosophy? Rat philosophy? This is called vṛścika-taṇḍula-nyāya in Sanskrit. A scorpion is coming from the stock of rice. Actually, the scorpions, they lay egg within the stock of rice, and by fermentation the eggs become scorpion and come out, not that the rice is producing scorpion.