Hindu apologists have had a field day in India for about 150 years now. Here are some quotes from the most famouse Hindu apologist - Vivekananda. Vivekananda said that: "the conclusions of modern science are the very conclusions the Vedanta reached ages ago; only, in modern science they are written in the language of matter." In one lecture he claimed that: "Today we find wonderful discoveries of modern science coming upon us like bolts from the blue, opening our eyes to marvels we never dreamt of. But many of these are only re-discoveries of what had been found ages ago. It was only the other day that modern science discovered that what it calls heat, magnetism, electricity, and so forth, are all convertible into one unit force. But this has been done even in the Samhita", thus identifying concepts from physics like gravitation, electricity, magnetism and other forces with the mystical Vedantic notion of Prana. With due respects, I find these quotes by Vivekananda to be bullshit. Either he has no idea of what modern science says or he was lying through his teeth or may be he is just too naive and should not be taken seriously. Anyone agrees?
Posted on: Tue, 20 Aug 2013 10:11:42 +0000
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