You profess a specific worldview. What is its impact on scientific research?

In 1973, I became a student of Gaudiya Vaishnavism, one of the traditional Indian schools of Hinduism. I became an initiated disciple of Sri Srimad A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, who propagated the teachings of Gaudiya Vaishnavism in Western countries through the International Society for Krishna Consciousness, which he founded in 1966. Prabhupada also founded the Bhaktivedanta Institute, which aimed to examine the views of modern science in the light of Indian Vedic philosophy, as embodied in ancient Sanskrit texts. My association with the Institute began in 1984. Richard Thompson and I began researching Vedic accounts of human history. According to them, humans were present on Earth tens, even hundreds, of millions of years ago. We reasoned that if these accounts were true, there should be empirical evidence to support them. Of course, when I consulted modern archaeology textbooks, I found no such evidence. But I didn't stop there. I undertook research into the entire history of archaeology. I discovered that over the past 150 years, archaeologists have made numerous finds consistent with the Vedic descriptions of human presence in the extremely distant past.