Is all the archaeological evidence wrong – did cavemen not exist?

Anwser Podcast

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so now does that mean say all the evolutionary history of the earth that we may learn in our science is it all wrong is it all just speculated not necessarily the point is that if there is evidence for cavemen existing you don’t have to say quarrel with the evidence that cavemen never existed but the point is that if we actually study archaeology there is a lot of limitations first of all if in the past human beings were living and if there was Vedic culture in Vedic culture people were cremated if their bodies are burned then no fossils will remain cremation fossils can be formed only when people are buried or people die a natural death and their bodies get fossilized in this cremation there is no possibility of evidence remaining that’s one thing second thing is that even when they are not cremated if people die so there is the continuous denudation of the soil that happens so because of the flow of rivers because of the fall of rain the top soil that is there it gets washed away and much of the top soil that is there on the earth that is now at the ocean beds bottom so if we have to look for we have to get a complete picture of earth’s history we need to do archaeological survey at the bottom of the oceans also which nobody has done because what was preserved in the soil that gets swept away also so according to archaeologists themselves the remnant of the soil that remains on the earth where fossils can be found that will be something between 1.6 to 1.8 of the total life forms because so much soil is going away and if there is a cremation then there is no chance only of anything fossilizing so the point which I am making through this is that it is possible that stone age men could have existed in the caves it is also possible at that time at other parts well developed men were also living so rather than saying that from cavemen the modern and now we have modern developed human beings, yes cavemen existed but at that time other parts of the earth proper developed humans also existed but their fossils are not available right now, this is assuming the fossil record that we have now is complete and it is not distorted so the history of today morning I don’t think you were there when I asked you, if there is a contradiction between science and scripture how do we understand this, I said there are three possibilities one is that science could be incorrect, second is science could be incomplete and third is science and scripture may be looking at things from two different perspectives so with respect to the history of the earth, science is at best incomplete because the fossil record itself, archaeology itself is a field which is based on very limited samples available and the benefits like the fossil records yeah not that much and another thing is in general this is a problem with any field of science where you go to history go to origins that is that from a very small sample they have to make very large generalizations say you know say in your college, in your school in the classroom and in that classroom say an alien comes say at 1 o’clock today the alien came and that alien was sent over there between 1 to 1.30 or 12.30 to 1 that alien was sent to find out what is the kind of people who live on earth and that alien came to your school’s classroom and was hovering there for 30 minutes observed continuously for 30 minutes and went back and then that alien reported that I saw that the population of earth is young boys and girls of the age of around 12 to 15 now the data is correct but the generalization is totally wrong why because the sample is taken from such a small space in such a small time the same way with respect to all these fields where science talks about origins the evidence that we have is so small whatever fossil records are there the sample is so small and the time scale we are talking about is so big the area over which we are talking is so big that’s why this is not a very reliable archaeology by its very nature is not a very reliable body of knowledge so that’s why the history that we learn it could be partially true it is not completely true and so instead of there being a linear narrative of cavemen leading to modern men or say cavemen to rural to urban it could be that there are cavemen, there are rural and there are urban all living together but the fossil record which we have is only of the cavemen rural and urban we don’t have that as I said for various reasons much of the fossil record is not available if there is cremation there is nothing available at all anyway and further if whatever is available is like huge extrapolation from a very small sample that’s why I feel that the two are not necessarily contradictory if we actually look carefully at what the evidence is so there is evidence and there is theory the theory is supposed to be inferred from evidence but the theory you will see that it is a huge extrapolation of the evidence it is definitely not a necessary inference coming from the evidence is that the question?