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- From: danwell@IASTATE.EDU (Daniel A Ashlock)
- Newsgroups: sci.skeptic
- Subject: Veda debunking needed.
- Message-ID: <1993Jan24.100145@IASTATE.EDU>
- Date: 24 Jan 93 16:01:45 GMT
- Article-I.D.: IASTATE.1993Jan24.100145
- References: <1993Jan23.012801.22611@s1.gov> <kHHVXB6w165w@kalki33.lakes.trenton.sc.us>
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- Reply-To: danwell@IASTATE.EDU (Daniel A Ashlock)
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- In article <kHHVXB6w165w@kalki33.lakes.trenton.sc.us>,
- system@kalki33.lakes.trenton.sc.us (Kalki Dasa) writes:
- > True, but "seeming silly" is not really a very reliable criterion for
- > making a final conclusion. One has to realize that the ancient world
- > culture was full of people no stupider than those of today.
-
- No, just more ignorant of physics, medicine, etc. Hell they may
- even have had the occasional valuable herbal remedy we didn't but on
- average we know more. They, for instance, couldn't spread information
- the way we do on UseNet...
-
- > Their
- > science was expressed differently, but they were not fools. To
- > understand what they wrote, one must accept that it does make sense.
-
- You assume AS A HYPOTHISIS that they had a correct picture and then
- try to understand it? Sheee-eeee-ittt. You'd better figure out _what_
- they had a correct picture of. The idea that some of what they were
- writing were teaching fables or stories for entertainment explains too
- much to be dismissed lightly.
-
- What if a good chunk of the Vedas did for the Hindus in antiquity what
- Star Trek, Haraldodo, and Law and Order do for us today?
-
- Dan
- Danwell@IASTATE.EDU
- (no, that was not a typo)
-