Proper knowledge comes from authorized sources, not from unfounded scientific theories or material speculation.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Prabhupāda: ...as the mind of God. And it is desert. God's mind is desert. Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: You made the statement in your purport that the moon is giving life to the vegetation on this planet. So how it can be a desert? Prabhupāda: That I have described.
They do not talk about moon. That means they did not go. That is now clear. [break] ...if you can answer my question why Monday first, er, yes, Sunday first and Saturday last? All over the world, in India also, Sunday, er, Monday first...
No. Sunday first, Monday second. Ask your scientist friend why this arrangement, Sunday first, Monday second, Saturday last? [break] Today I calculated that it will take seven months to reach the moon planet at the speed of eighteen thousand miles per hour. And they're going in four days.
[laughter] Just see how bluffing. Hari-śauri: But they don't calculate the moon to be so far away. Prabhupāda: That is their foolishness. Hari-śauri: We did that calculation on the basis of 95,000,000 miles, which is about 2,000,000 miles from what the distance we get from the Bhāgavatam, combined with 93,000,000 miles...
Prabhupāda: But they accept [sic:] ninety-three miles. Sun is [sic:] ninety-three miles away. Hari-śauri: But we don't say that.
Prabhupāda: No, no. We say also. Hari-śauri: What? 93,000,000?
Prabhupāda: Four billion is the..., what is called? Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: Diameter of the universe.