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From: Kestrel Clayton <richZIG.e.clayZIGton@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Creationism, Intelligent Design and Vendanta
Date: Tue, 6 Aug 2024 12:24:30 -0400
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On 06-Aug-24 09:46, RonO wrote:
> I found an article on creationism, intelligent design and Vendanta. Even 
> though Kalkidas came out as a normal Biblical creationists there have 
> been Hindu sympathetic to Scientific Creationism and the ID creationist 
> scam on TO.
> 
> https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4802803/
> 
> The author thinks that science is a search for truth.  I have never 
> considered science to be a search for truth.  It is just the best means 
> we have of developing a working understanding of nature.  This 
> understanding may not be the "truth" but it could be close, and allows 
> us to improve our understanding of nature and expand a functional 
> understanding of the reality that we exist in.
> 
> I do not recall Kalk ever stating how intelligent design supported his 
> hindu beliefs, and vice versa, but he did quote the Vedas from time to 
> time.
> 
> A section of the paper compares Vendata to the ID creationist scam.

Huh. I missed Kalkidas coming out as a fundamentalist Christian 
creationist. Did he have a conversion experience, or was he a Christian 
all along and lying about it?

Either way, I'm not all that surprised. For a lot of folks, denialism 
isn't about what is, but rather what ISN'T: Moon landing denialists will 
gladly accommodate flat-Earthers, orbit-onlyists, 
fake-landings-real-pictures, fake-pictures-real-landings, and even 
"secret nazi base on the far side of the Moon" crackpots, as long as 
they all agree that the official account is somehow bogus.

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Kestrel Clayton
I used to have a Kipling quote here,
but I'm not so fond of him any more.