--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "PaliGap" <compost...@...> wrote: > > Just to nitpick: > > I do not think "Wikipedians are scientifically > illiterate". But I do think THIS article started > with a howler.
Just to nitpick further :-), since I brought up the subject in another thread, what do you think could inspire someone to *post* such a howler? Could it possibly be a commitment to the idea that "India is the home of all knowledge," and the place were pretty much everything that is of value, spir- itually or otherwise, originated? That "intro" to this subject could easily have been written by a modern-day "Hindu Supremecist." It could as easily have been written by your garden-variety TM True Believer. > I say "there is no such thing as a history of India > traceable to 500,000 years ago". I think I can rest > easy that the academic consensus is with me on this, > and not with that Wikipedian article. And who, after all, would want to believe that there was such a "history" of India? Duh. Someone who has been convinced of the "India is the home of all knowledge" meme. Who else would care?
