Vedic timescales reveal all material science as imperfect speculation; axiomatic knowledge surpasses imaginative calculation.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
[Prabhupāda is being massaged] Prabhupāda: First try to point out as many as you can. And our view is they are wholesale mistaken. They are imperfect, speculating. Svarūpa Dāmodara: There's one strange point here about calculating this that dawn of Brahmā about two billion years old. Now strangely, these geological calculations, they also claim that at that time the first free oxygen in the air appeared, for first time.
The beginning there was no free oxygen. Prabhupāda: That we cannot accept. Svarūpa Dāmodara: We can accept that? [laughter] Now from here... Anyway, this is the basic point, that once this oxygen appeared, free oxygen, then the living entities began to appear slowly. That is the whole theory of this chemical evolution.
The results for the chronology is just put it that Brahmā's..., dawn of Brahmā is two billion years old? Prabhupāda: You can carefully read the Second Canto, Bhāgavatam, Third Canto. You'll get all the knowledge, how things develop. It is question of development. So maybe there was something missing, but after development it is manifested there.
That is possible. Rūpānuga: In the day of..., one day of Brahmā, there are fourteen Manus. And in the course of creation..., re-creation of the same species from the previous day—they are re-creating the same species—it takes..., there's some time, maybe one Manu, there's some species that are finished, but the next Manu... Prabhupāda: That doesn't mean time. What is the wrong? Rūpānuga: No, no, I'm saying this is what really happened, right? So we were thinking that we could show one day, this is one day, one day of Brahmā... Prabhupāda: No, you do not think what is actually there, you can say.
You do not be a speculator. Rūpānuga: No, no, but from the Bhāgavatam we have taken it, and broken down the day of Brahmā. Prabhupāda: Now whether they will accept it or not, that is the question. Svarūpa Dāmodara: We don't worry about whether they accept it or not. Prabhupāda: That is. But we have taken that they are talking all nonsense. And whatever we present, they'll take it as mythology. Rūpānuga: But like Mādhava prabhu pointed out, we have to make some explanation. We should explain, because they... Prabhupāda: That you do, but the position is like this.
Our conclusion is that whatever they are saying, that is imperfect. That is not possible. And that is a fact. Therefore they change.
After fifty years, they change, because it's speculation. Therefore we say totally they are wrong, and they will take totally, "From mythology," like that. This is going on. Svarūpa Dāmodara: Now one aspect in that, now in Christian group also, some are trying to preach that these things are created by God, but they have a problem there.