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[[Category:Questions asked to Srila Prabhupada]]
[[Category:Questions asked to SP... 1976]]
[[Category:Questions On... Modern Science and Scientists]]
[[Category:Questions On... The Moon]]
[[Category:Questions On... Material Creation, Universe]]
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<div id="Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" class="section" sec_index="5" parent="compilation" text="Conversations and Morning Walks"><h2>Conversations and Morning Walks</h2>
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<div id="1976_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" class="sub_section" sec_index="9" parent="Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" text="1976 Conversations and Morning Walks"><h3>1976 Conversations and Morning Walks</h3>
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<div class="heading">That I do not know. First of all, answer this. Yes. Yes. They say the moon planet first. I say, no, sun planet. First of all...
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Morning Walk -- June 4, 1976, Los Angeles|Morning Walk -- June 4, 1976, Los Angeles]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Rādhāvallabha: They have one argument, that during solar eclipse, the moon appears to pass in front of the sun, between the sun and the earth.</p>
<p>Hṛdayānanda: Prabhupāda explains that. It is the Rāhu planet.</p>
<p>Rādhāvallabha: But they are viewing the moon. The moon is right there, they can see it. And all of a sudden it goes in front of the sun.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Huh? What is that? Moon is there, sun is there. Now which first? That is the question.</p>
<p>Rādhāvallabha: They will say that they've observed in their telescopes...,</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: They'll say..., whatever they'll say it is all right. First of all, say why Sunday first. Then talk all nonsense. First of all, answer this. You cannot say "We believe that Sunday first." What is the fact? Why do you bring moon, Monday? Why not bring...?</p>
<p>Rādhāvallabha: They will say it is arbitrary order.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Huh?</p>
<p>Rādhāvallabha: Then they will get back to their argument.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Hare Kṛṣṇa. Arbitrary order is not science. That you cannot.</p>
<p>Candanācārya: How can it be arbitrary if every culture in the history of the planet has accepted that order? How can it be arbitrary?</p>
<p>Rādhāvallabha: That doesn't matter it's not arbitrary. Do you accept?</p>
<p>Hṛdayānanda: Rādhāvallabha is a rascal. (laughter)</p>
<p>Mahendra: Thirty or forty years also, Śrīla Prabhupāda, one man made a little plaster body of a human being, and he planted it in his back yard in England. And then he dug it up and said, "Oh, look, I've found the oldest man in history!" And all the scientists came and said, "Oh, yes, this is the oldest man in history." And for twenty or thirty years many men got their Ph.D.s by writing about how this plaster was the oldest man in history.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes, such fools are leaders.</p>
<p>Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: That is the business of dogs, digging up bones. (laughter)</p>
<p>Rādhāvallabha: Śrīla Prabhupāda, by calculating the movements of the moon, scientists can predict years in advance when the solar eclipse will be.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: That is not their invention. That is already there. (pause) (walking) We shall go further? No? (japa)</p>
<p>Hari-śauri: One thing is, Śrīla Prabhupāda, if they've wrongly calculated the distance of the moon, then how is it that they're able to calculate these eclipses and whatever?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: That I do not know. First of all, answer this. Yes. Yes. They say the moon planet first. I say, no, sun planet. First of all...</p>
<p>Trivikrama:(?) But they can see the moon comes in front of the sun.</p>
<p>Candanācārya: This is some other planet.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Huh?</p>
<p>Candanācārya: That must be some other planet.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Which one?</p>
<p>Candanācārya: This one that comes in front of the sun.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Whatever it may be, all over the world, they accept Sunday first.</p>
<p>Mahendra: All of their successes are accidental. Just like they discovered the planet called Pluto. The way it was discovered was one man recognized that there was a fluctuation in the orbit of the planet Neptune, and so he made some calculations and figured that the fluctuations were caused by another planet that must be further away than Neptune that no one has discovered yet. So he made many calculations and figured out where the planet should be, how big it should be, how much it should weigh, how far away it was. So then he told other scientists about it, and they looked in their telescopes, and sure enough, there it was. But it wasn't as big as he said, nor was it as heavy as he said, nor was it as far away as he said, and when they rechecked the data they found that the orbit of the original planet wasn't really wrong either. So all of his calculations were wrong, but still the planet was there. So somehow or other he stumbled upon it, but all of his calculations to find it were absolutely wrong. That's the planet called Pluto.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Recently there was an propaganda. That comet?</p>
<p>Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Yes, it would come and destroy,</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: There was no comet.</p>
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