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- From: dfox@quack.sac.ca.us (David Fox)
- Subject: Re: Eve Mitochondia?
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- References: <30608@castle.ed.ac.uk> <8okTXB1w165w@kalki33.lakes.trenton.sc.us> <11205@vice.ICO.TEK.COM> <1k077lINNrkq@gap.caltech.edu>
- Date: 27 Jan 1993 06:23:33 UTC
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- In article <1k077lINNrkq@gap.caltech.edu> carl@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU writes:
-
- >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.
-
- Yes, but can Kalki (or any other Hindu 'fundamentalist') distinguish as to
- whether these ideas are really part of Hindu scriptures (as in the divine
- word of God) or simply ideas stemming from other, later interpretations of what
- Krsna wrote?
-
- >------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- >Carl J Lydick | INTERnet: CARL@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU | NSI/HEPnet: SOL1::CARL
- >
- >Disclaimer: Hey, I understand VAXen and VMS. That's what I get paid for. My
- >understanding of astronomy is purely at the amateur level (or below). So
- >unless what I'm saying is directly related to VAX/VMS, don't hold me or my
- >organization responsible for it. If it IS related to VAX/VMS, you can try to
- >hold me responsible for it, but my organization had nothing to do with it.
-
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