-- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "yifuxero" > <yifux...@...> wrote: > > --Right. If there were a Garden of Eden for "the > truth", Vaj would be on the wrong side of the > garden. The dude he mentions (Meera Nanda is the > guys's name)...is an idiot. Here's what the > swaveda website owner says about him: > > "In this article cluttered with biased attacks on > Hindutva, the author [the jerk Vaj admires] also > makes sweeping statements as follows: "In > reality, everything we know about the workings of > nature through the methods of modern science > radically disconfirms the presence of any > morally significant gunas, or shakti, or any > other form of consciousness in nature, as taught > by the Vedic cosmology which treats nature as a > manifestation of divine consciousness. Far from > there being `no conflict' between science and > Hinduism, a scientific understanding of nature > completely and radically negates the `eternal > laws' of Hindu dharma which teach an identity > between spirit and matter."
How could science ever possibly "radically negate" a proposed identity between spirit and matter? How could it "radically disconfirm" the presence of consciousness in nature? At most, it could fail to find evidence to confirm the premises. But they aren't anything science could detect if they *were* the case, so how does not detecting them "radically disconfirm" or "radically negate" them?
