Prabhupāda: So that is not science.
Harikeśa: It's the most important part, too.
Prabhupāda: Therefore we say they are rascals. And rascals will believe.
Jayatīrtha: Once you said the missing link was your foot in their face. (laughter) (break)
Prabhupāda: . . .logic also it is admitted that inductive logic is imperfect; deductive logic is perfect. (break) . . . logic means śrota-panthā, paramparā, śruti. Vedic language, śruti. Śruti pramāṇa. Pramāṇa means evidence, and śruti means Veda. Pratyakṣa, anumāna, śruti. Pratyakṣa means direct, direct evidence, and anumāna, hypothesis. That is Darwin's theory, something like that. And śruti, Vedic. So out of these three kinds of evidences, śruti-pramāṇa is accepted as supreme—neither anumāna nor pratyakṣa. Pratyakṣa: you are seeing the sky, but you cannot say the length and breadth. You cannot say. You are seeing daily. If you say, "I have got this telescope," so that is an imperfect. And how you can see with your eyes directly, direct sense perception? Hypothesis, anumāna, guessing, that is also not perfect. And śruti, we take śruti from the perfect person, Kṛṣṇa. He says, aham evāsam agre (SB 2.9.33): "Before the creation I was there." We take simply.
Lakṣmī-nārāyaṇa: Prabhupāda, in the Bhagavad-gītā Kṛṣṇa says that in the beginning of creation He sent forth generations of men among the demigods. So the bones that they have found of those. . .