How can the daughters of Daksha produce progeny of species different from their own?

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Question, how do the daughters of Daksha produce species, produce the various species, produce progeny that do not belong to that species? Isn’t this whole idea unscientific? Answer, it’s not unscientific per se, it’s unscientific as per our current knowledge of science.
Our current knowledge of science is highly mechanistic. So, a machine is a device that is designed to operate in specific ways and to serve specific functions. So, we could take it as a machine, if we have a robot or a more complex device which operates according to a program.
So, suppose there is an ice cream producing machine, and it has been customized to produce ice creams of a particular size, say a mini size. An employee has been working in that ice cream producing machine for the last 10 years. And for those last 10 years, all the time the machine has just been producing that particular size and type of ice cream.
Now, it is not that the machine can’t produce other types of ice cream. During that particular worker’s observation, the machine has never produced. And in the future, the machine does produce something else.
In the sense that there is an owner, the owner knows the program, and the owner may change the settings of the program. And then instead of a mini size ice cream, there can be a jumbo size ice cream that is produced. And when the jumbo size ice cream comes out, the worker is shocked.
I’ve never seen such a thing happening. What is this happening? Now, if we have a skeptical, atheistic, reductionistic scientist, for them nature is like a machine. And everything produces results according to a particular program.
And that’s how nature normally works. So, when an object is dropped from a height, it falls down. So, whenever there is something which doesn’t seem to follow the normal pattern, then immediately there is consternation.
There is bewilderment. What is happening? So, actually speaking, yes, normally objects fall. And it is Krishna who has created mother nature to work in a particular way.
So, we could say that the law of gravity is ultimately an arrangement of Krishna. But Krishna is the controller of gravity. And, say, when he wants, he can suspend the law of gravity.
And he can raise Govardhan Hill on just his finger. The skeptics ask, you know, how did Krishna find the center of gravity of Govardhan Hill and how he managed to place his finger just at the exact center of gravity. That question is irrelevant, but Krishna doesn’t need to be at the center of gravity because Krishna is the source of gravity.
And he can suspend the law of gravity whenever he wants. So, the modern mechanistic worldview considers the laws, to some extent, the laws are almost like programs. And it considers the laws to be universal, infallible, and omnipotent.
Nothing can violate the laws. That’s the idea. That’s generally depicted in modern materialistic science, mechanistic science.
So, this has not necessarily been proven. There have been many miracles, there have been many incidents where things have been observed demonstrably which are not according to these laws. And that’s how the whole branch of paranormal science has come up.
Now, of course, much of paranormal science is involving questionable data. But there is other data that raises serious questions. And that cannot just be rejected.
So, the point which I am making here is that nature working in a particular way is not a universal, infallible, omnipotent truth. It is a conditional truth that is subordinate to the will of the Lord. And by the will of the Lord, that can be changed in exceptional situations if the Lord wants.
So, normally speaking, by the arrangement of nature, which is by the will of the Lord, Maya, Adhyakshina, Prakriti, Krishna describes in 9.10 in the Bhagavad Gita. So, the program is set in such a way that a particular species produces progeny of that same species alone. Doesn’t produce progeny of another species.
But that is not necessary. At other times, especially when the universe is to be populated, the Lord can change the program or allow the program to operate in multiple modes so that the same body of, say, of Daksha, Daksha’s daughters, as described in the 6th canto of the Srimad Bhagavatam, how the daughters of the progeny of Daksha, 6.6, there one species can produce multiple species. Now, how it may be possible biologically? Well, life as we know it doesn’t have to be the way life as it is everywhere in the world.
So, everywhere in the universe rather. So, there are higher beings and there are correspondingly higher different laws for them. So, for them, the whole process of procreation can be different.
And those living beings can be empowered to produce different species also. Their body doesn’t necessarily have to produce progeny the way we produce it. So, there are higher powers involved in the universe.
And those higher powers are capable of doing things which we can’t conceive of. How that is possible? We can get some understanding by this understanding that nature is not just like a machine behaving according to a predictable program, but it is also an instrument that can behave in multiple ways depending on the will of a person who is controlling the program. And from this perspective, we can understand it sometimes.
Nature can produce results which are anomalous. Now, the proper skeptical tendency would be to thrust away such data as bad data, bad data. If it is produced by science and if it is given in religious literature, it will be dismissed as just pre-scientific mythology.
But, as I have quoted in my article on Near-Death Experiences on the site, a psychologist and a scientist of the caliber of William James has pointed out that when he is talking about paranormal experiences, in cases like these, they keep mounting again and again, and we just dismiss them basically as bad data without getting into an explanation for them. Then that is not just bad data, that is bad method. And that leads to bad science.
So, rather than just dismissing anything that cannot be explained according to natural laws as unscientific, we will serve the progress of knowledge better if we are open-minded to look at the universe in alternative ways and look in the direction that will lead to those explanations.