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The Jambūdvipa Laghusangrahani And The Modern Science
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But scientists themselves have admitted that this method is faulty and leads to a difference, not of hundreds or thousands of years but of millions of years. Therefore, an object which is 70 or 80 million years old according their calculation, may be a thousand million years old or perhaps still older. The principle of the method adopted by scientists being faulty, their calculations
ir conclusions are only inferential and, therefore, they are not at all reliable.
Regarding this, Max Toth and Greg Nielsen, the authors of the book' Pyramid Power' write :
" It should be noted here that to determine the date of an archaeological find, excavators all over the world have been using the analysis of radioactive carbon, the isotope C-14.
Unfortunately, it now appears that the dates obtained through the use of this method are highly questionable, since contamination from presentday organic materials could substantially affect the process. Archaeologists now believe that most of the sites dated with carbon-14 are older than the dating process showed that they were. There is currently an enormous controversy ranging in archaeological circles over the claim of some archaeologists that carbon-14 dating is incorrect by thousands of years, not hundreds as was previously thought." ( Pp. 20 )
Regarding this Dr Narendra Bhandari (Chairman, Solar system, Space unit, PRL, Ahmadabad) mentions that Carbon-14 method works period below 50,000 years. For older fossils other methods are used. According to his opinion, Carbon-14 dating process is useful only for the fossils that possess carbon.
The present day scientists fear that if the developed and developing countries make excessive use of the space shuttles to launch satellites in space often and to make experiments in space, the ozone layer of atmosphere which stands against the ultraviolet rays of the sun which are harmful to human beings and the living world, will be used up and ultraviolet rays of the sun will destroy the living world. The sun will pour fire and the earth will be utterly destroyed.
The description of the sixth ārā in Jain scriptures is similar. They state that there will be a very poisonous rain of fire, salt etc. and there will be a
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| SR No. | 001603 |
| Book Title | Scientific Secrets of Jainism |
| Original Sutra Author | N/A |
| Author | Nandighoshvijay |
| Publisher | Research Institute of Scientific Secrets from Indian Oriental Scriptures Ahmedabad |
| Publication Year | 2001 |
| Total Pages | 378 |
| Language | English |
| Classification | Book_English, Science, Religion, & Articles |
| File Size | 21 MB |