Santosh, Your attack on me about organ donation, as often misses the larger point that I was trying to make. The 'organ donation for a price' is that there is no hindrance to parting with one's organs in India. But there is hindrance to part with something merely for an altruistic reason; which for some reason we do not see in the West. If you have an explanation for this disparity I would like to hear.
Personalizing the issue with some irrelevant statement does not advance the dialogue or the understanding or answer a research point of interest. Identifying the cause of the disparities may help advance all societies by learning the positives from each other. Perhaps you know this, that is why you are in Houston. As regards to the rest of your post, regarding what you read in Dinesh's book. Should you not address your questions directly to Dinesh? If I knew as much as Dinesh, I would have written the book myself and been on TV instead of watching it.:=)). Frankly I am surprised that as a scientist you would even ask me - a third party, who is not an authority of the subject to respond to (your versin of) Dinesh's findings / claims. Kind Regards, GL ------------------ Santosh Helekar Which Indian religion teaches people to donate their kidneys, but for a price? I bought his book yesterday, and read a few chapters whose contents were of particular interest to me. His book claims that the Big Bang theory, the theory of evolution, a tautological statement called the Anthropic Principle and some random assertions made by a cognitive psychologist prove beyond doubt the existence of not just any God, but the particular type of God that he worships. He believes that the Big Bang theory has already been discussed in the Book of Genesis, and that the descriptions given in Buddhist and Hindu texts are simply wrong. He wants us to believe that professional scientists, including Nobel laureate Steven Weinberg, who have not drawn the "logical" conclusions that he, as a political commentator, has drawn, are given to making foolish statements or have an anti-Christian agenda. Do you think these are all good points?
