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Perfect Questions, Perfect Answers
chemicals was required?
BOB:  How much?
ŚRĪLA PRABHUPĀDA:  Yes. How many tons?
BOB:  Many!
ŚRĪLA PRABHUPĀDA:  So who supplied it?
BOB:  This was supplied by God.
ŚRĪLA PRABHUPĀDA:  Somebody must have supplied it.
BOB:  Yes.
ŚRĪLA PRABHUPĀDA:  So that is science. You can teach like that.
BOB:  Should one bother teaching that if you combine acid and alkaline they form a neutral?
ŚRĪLA PRABHUPĀDA:  The same thing. There are so many effervescents. So, who is performing it? Who is supplying the acid and alkaline? [ There is a long pause. ]
BOB:  So this comes from the same source as the water.
ŚRĪLA PRABHUPĀDA:  Yes. You cannot manufacture water unless you have hydrogen and oxygen. So, here is a vast—not only this Atlantic or Pacific: there are millions of planets, and there are millions of Atlantic and Pacific oceans. So who created this water with hydrogen and oxygen, and how was it supplied? That is our question. Somebody must have supplied it, otherwise how has it come into existence?
BOB:  But should it also be taught how you make water from hydrogen and oxygen? The procedure of burning them together—should this also be taught? That is, you burn hydrogen and oxygen together . . .
ŚRĪLA PRABHUPĀDA:  That is secondary. That is not very difficult. Just like Mālati made this  puri  [a kind of bread]. So, there is flour, and there is ghee [clarified butter], and she made a  puri . But unless there is ghee and flour, where is the chance of making a  puri ? In the  Bhagavad-gītā  there is