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For example, the lemon tree is a living entity that produces many lemons, and within each lemon is a great deal of citric acid. Therefore, if even an insignificant living entity who is but a part of the Supreme Lord can produce so much of a chemical, how much potency there must be in the body of the Supreme Personality of Godhead.
Scientists cannot perfectly explain where the chemicals of the world are manufactured, but one can explain this perfectly by accepting the inconceivable energy of the Supreme Lord. There is no reason for denying this argument. Since there are potencies in the living entities who are samples of the Personality of Godhead, how much potency there must be in the Supreme Godhead Himself. As described in the  Vedas ,  nityo nityānāṁ cetanaś cetanānām : “He is the chief eternal of all eternals and the chief living entity among all living entities.” ( Kaṭha Upaniṣad , 2.2.13)
Unfortunately, atheistic science will not accept that matter comes from life. Scientists insist upon their most illogical and foolish theory that life comes from matter, although this is quite impossible. They cannot prove in their laboratories that matter can produce life, yet there are thousands and thousands of examples illustrating that matter comes from life. Therefore in  Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta  Kṛṣṇadāsa Kavirāja Gosvāmī says that as soon as one accepts the inconceivable potency of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, no great philosopher or scientist can put forward any thesis to contradict the Lord’s power. This is expressed in the following Sanskrit verse.
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অমুজমমুনি জাতং কচিদপি ন জাতমমুজাদমু ।
মুরভিদি তষ্মিপরীতং পাদাঙ্গোজান্নহানদী জাতা । ৮২ ।
ambujam ambūni jātaṁ kvacid api na jātam ambujād ambu mura-bhidi tad-viparitaṁ pādāmbhojān mahā-nadī jātā
SYNONYMS
ambujam —lotus flower;  ambūni —in the water;  jātam —is grown;  kvacit —at any time;  api —certainly;  na —not;  jātam —grown;  ambujāt —from a lotus flower;  ambu —water;  mura-bhidi —in the killer of Murāsura (Kṛṣṇa);  tat-viparītam —just the opposite of that;  pāda-ambhojāt —from the lotus flower of His feet;  mahā-nadī —the great river;  jātā —has grown.
TRANSLATION
“Everyone knows that lotus flowers grow in the water but water never grows from a lotus. All such contradictions, however, are wonderfully possible in Kṛṣṇa-The great River Ganges has grown from His lotus feet.