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Re: Evolution? Evolution?
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To: alt-hindu@uunet.uu.net
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Subject: Re: Evolution? Evolution?
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From: mpt@mail.utexas.edu (michael tandy)
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Date: 21 Apr 1995 23:26:34 GMT
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From news@geraldo.cc.utexas.edu Fri Apr 21 19: 15:49 1995
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Newsgroups: alt.hindu
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Organization: The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas
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References: <3n48pl$26d@ucunix.san.uc.edu>
In article <3n48pl$26d@ucunix.san.uc.edu>, Anshuman Pandey <apandey@u.washington.edu> says:
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the ten avatars of Visnu
>could be interpreted as evolutionary steps
How clever . . .
>1> Matsya Avatar (fish): The first avatar is that of a fish which science
> also agrees was the first advanced lifeform to
> in habit the earth during the later part of the
> Ice Age.
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>2> Kurma Avatar (Tortoise): The tortoise survives on land as well as water
> The amphibians, science agrees came next. This is
> spoken of in the puranas as the second avatar.
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Adi adi . . .
For ages we have only been scratching the surface and looking
>only at superficial aspects of Hinduism.
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Evidently so. But you've got me scratching my head instead.
Sometimes it's really hard for me to see a continuum from the
ancient Indian civilization in those descended from it; but
from wild speculations like the one above, it isn't difficult
at all to see why Marx called religion "nonsense upon stilts."
This one is almost as good as the baigan that became regarded
as an avatara after someone cut it open and noticed that the
seeds inside were distributed in the shape of the "omkara."
-mpt
