[jimtorr]

""The Ramayana itself is not that old. Nor had human habitation occurred 1.75 million years ago," Sharma, an acknowledged authority on ancient Indian history, said.

The oldest evidence of the Ramayana is around 400 BC ........ "Even if you want to rely on literary evidence, the oldest literary evidence available is only from 1500 BC."

D N Jha, professor of history at Delhi University, ......... The issue had "more to do with geology than history", since the claim was 1.75 million years old....... Linking just anything found with Ramayana or Mahabharata may be mythology, but it certainly isn't history," said Jha.""

Here we have two people who disagree with you, not just one person who "delights in debunking." We also see that Sharma said that the earliest evidence was from 1500 BC, not 1500 years ago, as you said. We also are reminded that the claim is that the bridge was built 1,750,000 years ago. Is this reasonable?

[hps]

Well if it is proven that this legend was cooked up on a certain date , then the legend can be dismissed. Now coming back to 1.75 million years, let us see what hindu teachers claimed to be the period of ramayana. It is well known that this belief was certainly hundreds of years ago long before scientists dated the bridge.
Hindus say that the bridge was built in treta yuga. Now lets compute when treta yuga took place. 5000 years back dwapara yuga ended. No of years in dwapara yuga was 864000 years. So treata yuga ended 864000 +5000 = 869000 years ago. Now treta yuga spans for 1296000 years. That is by this date treta yuga begins at 2165000. This means the span of treta yuga was beteen 2.165 to .864 million years ago. scientists have claimed that the bridge was formed 1.76 million years back. 1.76 million years is a small period on the timescale of earth. A formation could easily have not been 1.76 , it could have been 2.76 million years ago. If it had been later ,the hindu beliefs would have been falsified by all accounts. But the former clearly vindicates hindu belief whether one likes it or not. I first suggest the scientists to investiage the adams bridge and make sure that they date it to 10 million years earlier , thus making sure that hindus cannot lay claim to that date.