On May 22, 2006, at 9:47 AM, authfriend wrote:
> --- In [email protected], Vaj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > Meera Nanda debunks Vedic Creation Science.
>
> It's interesting to read the user reviews on Amazon
> of Nanda's major book, "Prophets Looking Backward,"
> which deals with the same topic as this essay.
>
> Of eleven reviews, five give it five stars and six
> give it one star (one of these is headed, "Because
> I could not give it a zero!").
>
> The negative reviews complain that Nanda's scholarship
> is seriously deficient with regard to the primary Vedic
> texts and what is actually proposed by proponents of
> Vedic science (generic, not MMY's per se), and that her
> argument is therefore against a straw man.
Yeah I saw that. Amazon's rating system is notoriously manipulated to
people who want to trash books, which in some cases they've not even
read.
One wonders if these are TMO fundies or other Neo-Hindu adherents
chiming in. I'd bet money they are. The fact that vedic creationism
is part of the Indian religious right, and esp. since many (if not
not most) TMers would probably be part of the religious or agnostic
left, seems to be a hard pill for many of them to swallow...bizarre
since the American equivalent (the American religious right) are
often counterpoised to the New Age cults like the TMO. Who would've
guessed that these two generally counterpoised groups would both have
arisen from the common ground of religious fundamentalism and
patriotic nationalism.
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