Guest (3): What is your correlation between belief and science? You mentioned that science is involved.
Prabhupāda: Science?
Guest (3): Yes.
Prabhupāda: Yes. What do you mean by science?
Guest (3): Well, the human sciences or otherwise is a study on its own. What is the relationship or the link-up between that and your faith?
Prabhupāda: The relationship—God is the creator of everything. So everything has got relationship with God. So what do you think of this science? The Vedānta-sūtra, it says, athāto brahma jijñāsā: "Now this human life is meant for understanding the science of God." So the question is what is God? The answer is: janmādy asya yataḥ (SB 1.1.1). "God or the Supreme Absolute Truth is that from whom everything has come." So this is our science, the origin of everything.
Guest (3): Yes, the origin of everything. But why is it necessary for man to have to discover? I mean, man discovered the cure for poliomyelitis.
Prabhupāda: Why man discovers?
Guest (3): Yes, well, I'm using it as an example.
Prabhupāda: But he... Just like... It is not the question of discover, but because you are existing, you must have come from a father. That is science. It is not the question of finding out a father. Without father, there is no existence of you. It is not the question of finding out a father. Father must be there. This is science. Without father, is there any existence of any man or any animal? What your science says? Is it possible that anyone is existing without a father? What do you think?
Guest (4): I was just wondering, um, do you believe in...
Prabhupāda: Who is there independently existing without having a father? What is that science?
Guest (2): It's not necessarily in the science itself...
Prabhupāda: No, no, this is a sign, that if there is a man, he must have a father. This is science. So what is your opinion about this science?
Guest (1): I see it as a straight, deductive logic. If there is a...
Prabhupāda: ...son, there must be father. That is science.
Guest (1): Don't you think this kind of reasoning is a deductive logic rather than inductive?
Prabhupāda: No, what is the reasoning yours, that you deny father?