Prabhupāda: Then it is all right.
Svarūpa Dāmodara: From here to here is the chemical evolution. There's a long gap.
Sadāpūta: I was wondering, to explain, perhaps these periods that they have here correspond with some of these floods, like this is between two Manus and there is a flood of the whole world, and that might pile up a huge layer of mud and rock. And I was thinking that might correspond with some of these layers here, because they are filled with remains of fish that look as though they were buried, things like that.
Prabhupāda: That is also imagination. Again you are bringing imagination, speculation.
Svarūpa Dāmodara: So actually it's very subtle and critical.
Prabhupāda: As soon as you bring your imaginations, they'll bring their own imagination. "Perhaps," "It may be," they say.
Rūpānuga: Our imagination is as good as your imagination.
Prabhupāda: We have to take the Vedic injunction axiomatic.
Svarūpa Dāmodara: So how do we, Śrīla Prabhupāda . . . we're talking about all these things, this time, and we just give our time scale from Brahmā, that's perfectly . . . that is on Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam.
Rūpānuga: We know from Bhāgavatam, it tells what creations went on during these periods. We can show the real creation of the universe, not that we care about their ideas. But these different Manus, there were different species created. Like Dakṣa recreated a time. From one Manu to the next the species were recreated again by him, we can show that in this chart.
Svarūpa Dāmodara: But one problem that we're going to encounter in Colleges always, though, this will come up, they will bring up this thing. So . . .
Rūpānuga: We just say your time starts only not long enough ago, and ours goes back to the beginning of the day. We can criticize them that theirs does not go back far enough. What else can we say?
Svarūpa Dāmodara: We will fight.
Hari-śauri: You made a good point yesterday, when you were seeing the slideshow, that how can they possibly calculate a time like two million years or two billion years when they only live fifty or sixty years themselves? How can they possibly come up with a calculation like that?
Rūpānuga: To verify, scientific, they cannot measure it. But our information comes from persons who were living at those times. They lived, historical persons. We don't need some modern man who lives fifty years to tell us what happened fifty million years ago. We know someone who was there. That is our advantage.
Devotee: Jaya, thank you, Śrīla Prabhupāda.
Prabhupāda: Hare Kṛṣṇa