>
>
> On May 23, 2006, at 5:06 PM, sparaig wrote:
>
> > Insomuch as humans show the same patterns of behavior in every
> > society, the analogy
> > with Christian Fundamentalism may be useful. However, since
> > Hinduism is usually a far
> > more flexable and accomidating religion or set-of-religions than
> > Christianity traditionally
> > has been (for instance, there's no Nicene Creed test for Hindus as
> > far as I know), the
> > analogy can only go so far.
>
>
> The reasons it would be important would be the same or very similar
> reasons it was important to question teaching intelligent design in
> our schools. In other words, it raises the question 'should Hindutva
> based initiatives be allowed to teach Vedic Intelligent Design in the
> public school system of India?' Of course that's probably already
> what's happening at schools like the Maharishi School for the Age of
> Enlightenment--it's just that they hide behind buzz-phrases like "The
> Science of Creative Intelligence". And of course as anyone who has
> heard even a fraction of the 100's of hours of rambling on about
> Quantum mechanics, the Rig Veda, Vedic literature, the sequential
> unfolding of creation, etc., etc. should be able to immediately sense
> the relevance. A Christian Intelligent Design curriculum is doing
> basically the same thing, except they're not waxing Quantum on Agnim
> ile...but using Bereshith/Genesis instead. You say Rig Veda, I say
> Genesis...it's a similar spiel.
>
Heh. So how do the Fundamentalist Christian private schools do on standardized tests and
National Merit Scholarship and other scholastic competitions, including science fair entries
for biological sciences?
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