Re: Creationism, Intelligent Design and Vendanta

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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