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I think that the Earth is on top of a series of elephants, on top of a turtle, on top of snake. I want this taught in science class as a scientific theory. Why shouldn't it be?
Umm, many Christians are STILL mad about the Hindu prayer that was devliverd to the US Senate. How do you think they would react to Hindu-based theories to Creationism and Geography being taught in school districts that avocate ‘teach the contoversy’? We’d have to worry about the whole Bible Belt suceeding from the Union…. again!
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Originally Posted by Bakin
I think that the Earth is on top of a series of elephants, on top of a turtle, on top of snake. I want this taught in science class as a scientific theory. Why shouldn't it be?
Their theory about the creation of the universe is as good as any other.
worthy of a mention in the school religion class, along with all the other ideas.
I think that the Earth is on top of a series of elephants, on top of a turtle, on top of snake. I want this taught in science class as a scientific theory. Why shouldn't it be?
Well, primarily because it's silly. You know, the same reason we don't teach creationism.
May you all be touched by His noodly appendage and see how the universe was TRULY created.
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Their theory about the creation of the universe is as good as any other.
worthy of a mention in the school religion class, along with all the other ideas.
lol who told you that this is Hinduism's take on world creation?
i suggest people read the "Tao of Physics"
Hinduism is maybe the only major religion that is all for evolution. It takes it a step further and states that even the soul evolves, the same way the animals do.
Hindus simply love the Darwinian Evolution.
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To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
Last edited by Vandhiyathevan; 21st August 2007 at 04:07 PM.
lol who told you that this is Hinduism's take on world creation?
lol
i suggest people read the "Tao of Physics"
Hinduism is maybe the only major religion that is all for evolution. It takes it a step further and states that even the soul evolves, the same way the animals do.
Hindus simply love the Darwinian Evolution.
Well that's pretty cool..........
Doesn't Buddhism accept evolution, too, though?
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yes it does too Buddhism and Hinduism are like two sides of the same coin...Buddhism was in fact a movement within Hinduism....which later became its own religion.
But Lord Buddha never said that he is starting a new religion. There have been many reform movements within Hinduism(Hinduism is not a "rigid dogmatic religion") and all these reform movements and different schools of philosophy add to Hinduism.
Every Hindu thinks of Lord Buddha as a fellow Hindu, and as one of the Countless "enlightened" men/women of Hinduism.
And yeah i was just reminded of this wonderful prayer verse we use so often. Its in Tamil(Thamizh) and i will give the English translation below.
"From the grass to the tiny shoots of plants, to the tiny worm to the huge tree,
to the myriad animals and to the snake, and to the birds,
to illiterate humans to learned beings/demigods that live on this universe,
to gods themselves and then to "everything"
(...the soul goes)
the above verse explains in a poetic way how a soul would evolve though many different forms..even to the state of gods and then beyond..to the state of being 'everything"...the state of enlightenment and oneness with everything in this universe(s).
Its amazing that they know so much about Evolution...and also there is a famous line in the Indian epic the "Ramayan" where the apes tell Rama,(the hero)
"We apes were once your ancestors, you humans are our children, yet you have forgotten this, but we animals do not forget this link of old"
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Tho' much is taken, much abides; and tho'
We are not now that strength which in old days
Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are;
One equal temper of heroic hearts,
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
Last edited by Vandhiyathevan; 22nd August 2007 at 02:37 PM.
Also, spiritual evolution is nothing like biological evolution, since souls don't mutate and pass on traits to offspring souls.
Stellar evolution is nothing like biological evolution either. Stars don't mutate and pass on traits to offspring stars either. The Hindu guy was merely stating that in his religious text, he is taught that the spirit changes over time.
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