nineteenth and twentieth century biology was completely based on misleading ideological imposition that living entities are particular states of matter and in that era biologists have only made several attempts to deny the living organism of its veracity as an immortal soul , in favor of genes , molecules , atoms and so on .
twenty first century biology realizes that living entities ( animate objects ) do things , which are intentional and purposeful ( internal teleology ) and nonliving objects ( inanimate objects ) have things done to them ( external teleology or design ) . from bacterial antibiotic resistance we can see that even the tiny bacterium displays the sign of great intelligence ( natural genetic engineering ) . unlike inanimate objects , all living cells ( and all living organisms ) create and maintain order . to create and maintain this order every cell has to work like a tiny chemical factory , performing many millions of reactions every second .
thus , the proponents of  creationist movement/intelligent design argue that an intelligent being is necessary for the creation / design of factory ( example of external teleology ) from the basic elements or parts .
this is a more reasonable argument as compared to the imprudent materialistic view that the cell / life is a product of mere accumulation of inert chemicals .
however , vednta philosophy is not based on  creationist movement/intelligent design or reductionistic materialistic views . according to vednta philosophy an  organic whole 
(  life comes from life or  every cell comes from a cell  biogenesis ) and an  organic whole  ( prna ) can not come from the mechanical and chemical additive sum of the parts ( khanda ) .
caetano - anolls completely missed this main point , which the paper  life and consciousness 
it is empirically observable that  every day sun rises in the east and hence it is logical to conclude that the  first sun rise was in the east. there is no problem , if someone wants to dedicate his whole life to do a rigorous scientific research to prove the opposite  first sun rise was in the west. the problem arises when keeping such illogical views in mind someone wants to critique those who have the conviction on the obvious 
vedntic explanation that independent supreme cognizant being is the source of everything is founded on 2 scientifically verifiable axiomatic facts : ( 1 ) life comes from life , and ( 2 ) matter comes from life .
consciousness arises from consciousness , or life comes from life . where there is life there is consciousness .
consciousness does not originate from that which is unconscious or impersonal , and life is not a product of insentient matter .
the conception that life comes from life ( biogenesis ) is the only scientific idea that has ever been verified by experiment and observation .
matter comes from life are 2 scientifically observable deductions from vednta . on the other hand , materialism ( life originates from matter )
is an unverified ideological presupposition that has no scientific or observation - based evidence to support it .  for a detailed critique of darwinian objective evolution of bodies and abiogenesis ( material origin of life ) , and a further elaboration on vedntic view for  soul hypothesis , consciousness and  subjective evolution of consciousness one can refer author 's recent paper  why biology is beyond physical sciences? , the published book chapter and the article  sorry , darwin : chemistry never made the transition to biology.
 abstractthe author would like to thank professor gustavo caetano - anolls from department of crop sciences , university of illinois for his interest in his work . 
 we may sometimes observe that there is a noticeable difference between the anecdote people narrate about the implications of a scientific paper and the real conclusion of the paper . 
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 gustavo caetano - anolls 's response1 is an ideal example of the same , where he has tried to make great hay about the implications of the article  life and consciousness  the vedntic view.2 the vedntic view subscribes neither to the views of  creationist movement/intelligent design , nor it supports some splendid anti - science proposal . 
 vedntic view refutes the dominant reductionistic view of life in modern biology by proposing a viable alternative concept of  organic whole and thus serves a scientific critique to the nescience ( avidy ) that is practiced on the name of science . 
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