Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: No. A gross underestimation-five miles instead of eighty thousand. Not even close. That means he has no idea.
Prabhupāda: There are... I have seen many places by aeroplane, hilly tract. Perhaps you have also seen. They could never go there. Hundreds and thousands of miles, simply stone.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Yeah, that we've seen.
Prabhupāda: Who is going there?
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Yeah...
Prabhupāda: You have seen from aeroplane?
Śatadhanya: Some. Some mountains.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: In the Alps no one can go there. There's places in the Alps. There's simply so many mountains, no one can go there. The map as the modern people show it—India, Africa, Europe, America, North America, South America—do we accept that much?
Prabhupāda: Hm?
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Do we accept the contour of the continents? Do we accept the general continents?
Prabhupāda: We accept nothing of their theory. They are prejudiced and nonsense. Formerly they were speaking that the world is flat. Now they have changed: "It is round." So what is the value of his estimate? And you'll find in that book, "probably."
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: That was the most frequent word used.
Prabhupāda: Yes. So what is the value of their knowledge? Besides that, they'll insist that life is combination of chemicals, and they cannot produce it. Simply useless. So it is, what is called, childish obstinacy. So why shall I believe them? Just like a child cries, "I want. I want," it is like that. There is no science. Still they will say it is science.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: It's nescience.
Prabhupāda: Eh?
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Nescience.
Prabhupāda: Where is the proof that you produce life from chemicals? We say it cannot be, and they say, "Yes, it is..."
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Everything in life comes from some other life.