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Sorry but you are wrong. You are making classic mistake of viewing ancient texts in light of recent findings and theories. Let me share some examples In Varah
by negamax 10y ago
Sorry but you are wrong. You are making classic mistake of viewing ancient texts in light of recent findings and theories.
Let me share some examples
In Varahavatar, Earth was submerged into ocean. You realise that ancients for a long time had idea of Earth as flat. How do you expect them to make concrete theories about universe? Not until Ramayana does reference to Earth as a ball appears. But even that text (which is relatively new) has Sun circling the Earth. Ancient texts are great and give us glimpse into creative capacity of human mind. But let's not try to pass them as scientific
- amriksohata 10y ago"You are making classic mistake of viewing ancient texts in light of recent findings and theories." No, thats confirmation bias. That is not what Hindu texts are saying at all, keep in mind these scriptures were spoken tens of thousands of years ago and then written down, whilst Scientists are only understanding our solar system well enough over the last 1000 years. Planets like Shani (Saturn) etc were well known in Hindu texts long before telescopes existed.