พระพุทธเจ้า 5 พระองค์ กับทฤษฎี Silurian Hypothesis จากนักวิทยาศาสตร์ NASA
Summary
This bhadda-kappa is said to have five Buddhas, four of whom have already come. The natural question follows: why is there no archaeological trace of the three before Gotama?
The Silurian Hypothesis proposes that an industrial civilisation old enough would leave nothing to dig up — rock and time erase the evidence.
The talk does not claim the hypothesis proves anything about earlier Buddhas. It makes the narrower point that absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
Key points
The opening question is a fair one
If earlier Buddhas were real, should something remain? A believer has as much reason to ask it as a sceptic.
The Silurian Hypothesis was not devised for this
It is the work of a NASA scientist asking how we would know whether a civilisation preceded us on Earth.
Geological time really does erase things
Over millions of years, almost nothing built by people stays distinguishable from ordinary rock.
The conclusion is negative, not positive
What it yields is a reason not to dismiss, rather than a reason to believe. Those are not the same thing.