Dr. Wolfe: But in all humility, Śrīla Prabhupāda, supposing that they would succeed in actually creating the living cell artificially, what would we say?
Prabhupāda: Well, what is the credit there? It is already there. So what credit he can get?
Karandhara: Best they just imitated what has already happened.
Dr. Wolfe: They imitated.
Prabhupāda: Imitated. Just like . . . that I explained also. That example is that when an imitation barking is there, people go and purchase ticket. And when real barking is there, nobody cares. This is their business. They are so fool that their government is purchasing the ticket, and they're hearing the imitation barking. That's all.
Svarūpa Dāmodara: But once they are successful, they are going to make superbeings—they are called superbeings, superhuman beings, superanimals.
Prabhupāda: But they cannot . . . they cannot create even an ant, and now they are going to make superbeings. This is another foolishness. They cannot create even an ant, moving ant, and they're going to make superbeing. Just see. And we have to believe them. (laughter) We are not so fool. Your so-called scientists may be fools, but we are not so fools.
Yaśomatīnandana: You give the example of the potter who was dreaming . . .
Prabhupāda: Ah, yes, yes, That's it. A potter.
Svarūpa Dāmodara: This idea, Śrīla Prabhupāda, about the chemical evolution, this idea came from, I think, in 1920 by a Russian scientist. He is a biologist. His name is Oparin. O-p-a-r-i-n. So he demonstrated that in the . . . before biological evolution the atmosphere of the earth should be, he called, very much reducing. Reducing, that means it must be mostly full of hydrogens; no oxygen, very little oxygen, but mostly hydrogen. Then in due course, because of the reaction in these hydrogen compounds and the radiation from the sunlight, then these compounds form into different chemicals, which are . . .
Prabhupāda: Yes, that is a side study. But there was hydrogen. Wherefrom the hydrogen came? The scientists, simply they study in the middle. But they do not know what is the origin. Just like here is one aeroplane is coming, and you can say: "All of a sudden a light came out of the sea." Is that the study of this aeroplane? If we . . . the foolish person will see, "All of a sudden, in the sea there was a light." Is that scientific study? So your study is like that: "There was this, and all of a sudden, by chance . . ." That's it. That is not scientific study. We have to find out the original cause.