should religious values taken into consideration in biotech involving cloning
humans?
But the religions and traditions we know as Hinduism are less monolithic and more diverse than Islam and Christianity; they can yield contradictory arguments. Early in “The Mahabharata,” there is a story about how the hundred Kaurava brothers came into being. Their mother had produced a mass of flesh after two years of pregnancy. But then a sage divided the flesh into 100 parts, which were treated with herbs and ghee, and kept in pots for two years - from which the Kaurava brothers emerged
Am Indian and Hindu but Anjjan, lets not stretch our imagination that far.... That piece of creative writing in the epic called Mahabharata cannot be touted as example for how its a source of knowledge of science.
Am sure there are other points in vedas and other books which are source of knowledge after all these centuries but lets get the right examples!!!
Atom power is depicted in Vedas and epos like Mahabharata and Ramayana……When our Gods targeted someone, the arrow reached the target…..is it not a missile system?
Our Gods used to fly in aero planes? And they could cross the time and atmosphere. Is it not a shuttle system?
Great! So what we have here are examples to show that so many centuries ago, Hindus did have lot of creativity or imagination etc. BUT there is no knowledge about how it was made to work etc etc.. Such imagination or fantasy has existed in other cultures as well.
For that you must understand the proper context or meet a good scholar of Hindu religion.
Our Gods, the monkey God Hanuman could fly without a plane. The present day science is still not able to invent this technique, we Hindus had long long back in the period unknown to man history.
A british was telling a chinese and a Paki that when they excavated a site in England of a village of 1000 BC era they found electric wires, that shows that they used electricity at that time.
Chinese siad we excavated a site of a village of 1000BC era and found telephone wires, see we were more advanced than English.
The paki said we excavated Mohandaru and guess what we found no wires at all......means we were using mobile phones at that time.
Since the Gita’'s first translation into English in 1785, most experts have translated not “Death” but instead “Time”. A further elaboration of the supposed Oppenheimer quote often cited is taken from Robert Jungk’s 1958 Brighter than a Thousand Suns:
If the radiance of a thousand suns
were to burst into the sky,
that would be like
the splendor of the Mighty One—
I am become Death, the shatterer of Worlds.Jun58
Advaita Vedanta has influenced modern scientists. Erwin Schrödinger claimed to have been inspired by Vedanta in his discovery of quantum theory. According to his biographer Walter Moore: “The unity and continuity of Vedanta are reflected in the unity and continuity of wave mechanics. In 1925, the world view of physics was a model of a great machine composed of separable interacting material particles. During the next few years, Schrödinger and Werner Heisenberg and their followers created a universe based on superimposed, inseparable waves of probability amplitudes. This new view would be entirely consistent with the Vedantic concept of All in One.”. Additionally, Fritjof Capra’s book The Tao of Physics is one among several that pursues this viewpoint as it investigates the relationship between modern, particularly quantum, physics and the core philosophies of various Eastern religions, including Hinduism, Buddhism and Taoism.
But seriously - I think Indian's don't look for a religious reference for every new thing. There is little need to have to reconcile my ideas and inventions to any religious belief. Granted there will always be some fringe group that objects to even sneezing in the toilet on religious grounds, but that's not the typical.
Indians are more secure about their ideas as well as their religion where they have one. Religion is simply not such a big deal - we have a lot of that.
