"G Nageshwar Rao, vice chancellor of Andhra University, also said a demon king from the Hindu religious epic, Ramayana, had 24 types of aircraft and a network of landing strips in modern day Sri Lanka." - BBC News
"Dr KJ Krishnan reportedly said Newton failed to "understand gravitational repulsive forces" and Einstein's theories were "misleading"." -BBC News
Other interesting topics many "responsible" Hindu's support, all because of their religious texts.
So, what do you think James?
there are several aspects at play in the debate
statistical base line of people
1 billion hindus ? which = a larger % of people with all sorts of mental disorders and extremist ideologies etc...
its a numbers game
the larger the % of the total general name group = the larger % of extremist comments that can be seen by observation.
not much different to the concept of Muslim vs Muslim vs modern intellectual ability and education etc.
such ideas like this are not new to the hindu people.
i have read some completely crack-pot ideas from some hindu self anointing people.
it appears that when you get a more immersive mix of highly conservative backwards culture with modern scientific evolution, you always have easy and frequent occurrences of modern ideologies coming in contact with archaic illogical superstition.
an easy gauge of the contrast is the gender identity and equal rights for non conformist gender identity & female gender in the indian culture.
non-binary gender has been a cultural aspect for hundreds of years in indian culture, yet a patriarchal rule along side highly discriminative culture has existed along side it.
modern indian women will freely be able to speak for hours on this subject.
additionally a human behavior thing you see among most people, cultures & religion is
the claiming or aligning with factual material aspects that support their mystical or superstitious thinking.
this gives the human animal a sense of feeling of security of mental thought.
this mental security is critical to intellectual advancement.
its like trying to have no accidents with modes of transport, like bikes, cars, skate-boards... walking... anything
the statistical chance of variant actions is an absolute occurrence of the nature of the whole aspect...
medieval archaic cults & beliefs seeking to own modern scientific discovery's to try and solidify their sense of mental security of belief in a modern ever changing world and environment.
