Why do people consider the Bhagavatam’s history to be mythological?

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till the present era ok, so when the Bhagavatam gives the most expansive narrative about history, why do westerners consider it a mythology? primarily because of an overconfidence in Pratyekshana Hanuman because by our inference, by our observation inference, we have acquired a certain amount of knowledge and that knowledge is valuable now we have so much technology that we are using today, so that is acquired using Pratyekshana Hanuman, science largely operates on that, so that knowledge is valid, but there is often as I said, overconfidence when there is non-scientific extrapolation of scientific knowledge there is non-scientific extrapolation of scientific knowledge what I mean by that is that suppose an alien came to the earth and that alien he is on the earth, he has been sent from some other planet to observe earth and find out what is the population of earth, what is the nature of the inhabitants of the earth, and say that person comes to Radha Gopinath temple while we are sitting so from 1.30 to 2.30 the alien is hovering in the background observing and then after staying here for one hour the alien goes back to his planet and reports the population of earth is mostly Indian males and females who are largely interested in God, now is that true? the observation is true, the extrapolation is wrong the observation is true but it cannot be extrapolated to all of earth, so what has happened is science has a certain level of observational capacity and what science infers is that whatever we observe that is the way all of reality is and when something does not fit into our conceptions we say that it is impossible and that is how it leads to the notion of something which cannot which does not agree with our experience which does not agree with our conceptions, we tend to call it as mythology but actually speaking if science has taught humanity anything, science is taught as humility because what is considered as a rock solid scientific knowledge today you know at the start of the 20th century the scientists who said, Kelvin and others said that actually all the scientific knowledge that has to be acquired has been acquired, in the future generations of physicists they will have no work to do except refine the details of what we have now and just 20 years later when quantum physics came and Einstein brought relativity and classical Newtonian physics was in shambles and now the famous physicist Stephen Hawking he said I am confident, I am happy to announce that humanity’s quest for knowledge will never end, so when the London Times published it, he says even he says, even he gives up, what he is saying is that I am happy to say that humanity’s quest for knowledge will never end, that means I am happy to say that humanity will be forever ignorant, is that something to be happy about, see the point which I am making is, there is scientific knowledge is valid but there is invalid extrapolation, so scripture gives us many things which are not comprehensible by our experience which do not agree with our current observation and that’s why they are deemed as mythology, but if we really adopt the scientific spirit and see how our scientific knowledge is mutable, then we will be open to higher avenues of knowledge also so what Bhagavatam offers us is a higher dimensional science, does that answer your question any other questions yes bro