"Satsvarupa: They base many of their conclusions on finding of fossils, old remains.
Prabhupada: Eh?
Satsvarupa: Fossils, impressions of animals' bodies in the stone that are left there thousands of years. They gather all these... That's what Darwin's work mostly was. He would sail around the world and collect all these fossils, and make conclusions and write books.
Prabhupada: But where they will get fossils of old intelligent men?
Satsvarupa: Well, they say that they've found just skulls of very primitive men...
Prabhupada: No, no, you cannot find because according to Vedic culture, the body's burned into ashes. Where you'll get the bones and fossils?
Bali Mardana: You only come up with the primitive ones who are not civilized.
Prabhupada: We understand from the writings, not from the fossils and bones. The bones and fossils are already finished, but they kept their writing.
Bali Mardana: Only the uncivilized people were buried.
Prabhupada: Suppose I am writing books. In future if you could not find my bones and fossils, but the books will prove what I was. So we have got the books. That is the real bones and fossils.
Bali Mardana: They try to disprove...
Prabhupada: They cannot find out bones and fossils of Krsna. Now, why they accept?
Satsvarupa: Nobody agreed... (tape garbled)
Prabhupada: You have to accept authority... [break] ...authority of yourself, we have got authority also. We have got authority. We have got our books... [break] ...that Kali-yuga has begun five thousand years but you say they do not believe in... [break] ...these rascals. Although it is history... (end)
>>> Ref. VedaBase => Morning Walk -- January 22, 1974, Hawaii
