Re: Meaning of Aryan: now, "white people"?

You don't seem to understand how science works ay all.
This is a hallmark of fanaticism. Science doesn't
gives all encompassing truths, it only gives
approximations based on the best information available
through human observation --i.e. facts. It's always
adjusting, always seeking. It can however, dismiss
irrational nonsense. The facts show you are wrong but
your belief system won't let you accept them. You need
to either learn scientific inquiry and practice it or
go to a monastery and conjure up a mythology for true
believers.


--- mkelkar2003 <swatimkelkar@...> wrote:

> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Brian M. Scott"
> <BMScott@...> wrote:
> >
> > At 12:46:01 AM on Friday, February 15, 2008,
> mkelkar2003
> > wrote:
> >
> > [...]
> >
> > >> Why do you waste our time (and yours) with
> these repeated
> > >> attempts to find *linguistic* support for your
> > >> ideological axioms when you clearly don't
> believe that
> > >> linguistic evidence is worth a damn? If it's
> worthless,
> > >> it's just as worthless when (you think that) it
> says what
> > >> you want to hear as when it doesn't.
> >
> > > Acutally, I am not saying linguistic evidence is
> > > worthless, [...]
> >
> > You don't have to say it in so many words: it's
> quite
> > obvious that this is what you really believe. You
> use your
> > ill-understood snippets only as weapons of debate,
> not out
> > of any interest in linguistics, and you value them
> only
> > insofar as they serve your intellectual cause.
> >
> > Brian
>
> What bothers me is comparative linguists reach above
> and beyond what
> their craft allows them to do. Hypothetical
> reconstructions are
> treated as facts. Linguists especially comarative
> IEL treat
> the "Indo-Aryan" invasion of South Asia as a fact.
> How is it a fact
> if there is no agreement on when and where this
> happened?
>
> M. Kelkar
>
>

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