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From: Chris Thompson <the_thompsons@earthlink.net>
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Subject: Re: Creationism, Intelligent Design and Vendanta
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Burkhard wrote:
> On Tue, 6 Aug 2024 16:24:30 +0000, Kestrel Clayton wrote:
> 
>> 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?
> 
> neither, as far as I can tell. Though of course conversions, while
> comparatively rare, do happen. But as far as I'm aware, he always was
> and  still is a follower of Vaishnavism.
> 
> He only ever objected to certain labels (with some good reasons I'd say)
> so
> the use of the exonym Hinduism
> 
>>
>> 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.
> 
> Well, that's possibly closer the issue, as you, me and pretty much all
> other contributors to TO on the science side are dead, we just
> did not get the memo yet - the bioengineered Covid vaccine killed
> us all, as planned by the oligarchs, for reasons unknown. Or so
> Kalkidas
> 

Wasn't it Nando who was sure we'd all be dead by now? Was he an 
alter-ego of Kalkidas?

Chris