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<div class="heading">What is that purple men? But you have not also seen, why you are speaking like that? No, no. What, you are scientist, what you have never seen, why you are thinking of like that? That is my point.
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Philosophy Discussion on Charles Darwin|Philosophy Discussion on Charles Darwin]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Prabhupāda: Therefore there is a greater law. Just like the hotel people, he has got experience. The customers come and they want this sort of facilities. So he has made all the facilities here to receive all kinds of customers. Similarly, this is God's creation. He knows how much a living entity can think of, so He has made all these species. If he thinks like this, "Come on, here," nature will, "Yes." Prakṛteḥ kriyamāṇāni guṇaiḥ karmāṇi ([[Vanisource:BG 3.27|BG 3.27]]). Nature is offering facility, "Yes, come on." God, Kṛṣṇa as Paramātmā within the heart, He knows, He wants this. He wants this, immediately nature, "Give him this apartment," and nature offers, "Yes. Come on. Here is apartment." This is real explanation.</p>
<p>Śyāmasundara: So I understand that, and I'll accept that, but the  one thing I'm still puzzled on is that there's no geological evidence that in former times on this planet there were more complex forms...</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Why you are taking geological evidence as final? Why you are taking that? That is final?</p>
<p>Śyāmasundara: But it's logical...</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: What logic? Science is progressing. You cannot say that this is final.</p>
<p>Karandhara: Scientists couldn't deny; they could just say that we haven't found any evidence.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes.</p>
<p>Śyāmasundara: But until there's something that disproves it to me, then I must accept it, because it..., because it's logical.</p>
<p>Karandhara: But that's a false platform. I'll conclude on the basis of my limited knowledge because I don't have the perfect knowledge. That's an abortion of the whole scientific...</p>
<p>Śyāmasundara: Yes. All right. You can say that I've never seen a purple man, so there must be no such thing as a purple man. You can say that, but as far as I can operate within my practicality, there are no purple men. I've never seen one; no one has ever seen purple men. So isn't this logical?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Purple men?</p>
<p>Śyāmasundara: I'm just using it as an example.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: What is that purple men? But you have not also seen, why you are speaking like that?</p>
<p>Śyāmasundara: I'm using it as an example of an exception.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: No, no. What, you are scientist, what you have never seen, why you are thinking of like that? That is my point.</p>
<p>Śyāmasundara: I'm using it as an example of an exception...</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Why example? Why you give a fictitious example which you have no experience?</p>
<p>Śyāmasundara: All right. So let's say no one has ever seen a...</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: No, no. That is another thing. You cannot say which you have never seen, at least. Because yours is experimental, I may say, but you at least, cannot say like that.</p>
<p>Śyāmasundara: I have excavated in all parts of the world, and every time I go to the...</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: No. You have not excavated all parts of the world. That is another nonsense. You have not done this.</p>
<p>Śyāmasundara: Well, on seven continents I have excavated...</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: But that seven continents is not the whole world. That is our charge. That you are claiming that you have excavated all. We say no, not even an insignificant portion. So your knowledge is limited. (indistinct) they say the same (indistinct), Dr. Frog. Dr. Frog is limited within the three-feet well. If he says "I have seen everything," that is not acceptable.</p>
<p>Śyāmasundara: But at least in thousands of places they have bored into the earth or dug into the earth, and they've found...</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes. Thousands of places is not this finishing, the whole planet.</p>
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