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- From: carl@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU (Carl J Lydick)
- Newsgroups: sci.skeptic
- Subject: Re: Eve Mitochondia?
- Date: 25 Jan 1993 08:09:25 GMT
- Organization: HST Wide Field/Planetary Camera
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- References: <30608@castle.ed.ac.uk> <8okTXB1w165w@kalki33.lakes.trenton.sc.us>,<11205@vice.ICO.TEK.COM>
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- In article <11205@vice.ICO.TEK.COM>, bobbe@vice.ICO.TEK.COM (Robert Beauchaine) writes:
- >In article <8okTXB1w165w@kalki33.lakes.trenton.sc.us> system@kalki33.lakes.trenton.sc.us (Kalki Dasa) writes:
- >>gtclark@festival.ed.ac.uk (G T Clark) writes:
- >>
- >>> While the "Eve" hypothesis is not proven,and is in my view
- >>I posted the following article some time ago, but since the
- >>"Mitochondrial Eve" issue seems to be coming into vogue again, here it
- >>is one more time:
- >>
- >>From Back to Godhead magazine, Sept/Oct 1992
- >>
- >>WAS THERE AN EVE?
- >>
- >
- > What a disappointing article. I licked my lips as I started in on
- > the first couple of pages, thinking it was going to be an
- > excellent scientific treatise on a subject that I'm not terribly
- > well informed on.
-
- C'mon, you've got to be kidding! You actually expected something other than
- bullshit from a Hindu fundamentalist like Kalki? You wanna buy a bridge?
- Cheap? Fundamentalists have one thing in common:
- NO MATTER WHAT EVIDENCE MAY BE FOUND IN THE WORLD, THEY'LL FIND A WAY
- TO WARP THAT EVIDENCE TO FIT THEIR SCRIPTURES.
- Kalki is no exception. He's quite willing to wave his arms about and chant
- about multi-dimensional bullshit to justify the Vedas, despite the fact that
- the mathematics he's invoking was entirely unknown to the authors of the Vedas,
- in an effort to "prove" that the Vedic authors knew their asses from holes in
- the ground. Those same Vedic authors would almost certainly look askance at
- Kalki's sophomorisms and condemn him as a heretic.
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- Carl J Lydick | INTERnet: CARL@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU | NSI/HEPnet: SOL1::CARL
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