From: mkelkar2003
Message: 53338
Date: 2008-02-15
>So far science has not proven an Indo-Aryan invasion cum tricke into
> 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.
> 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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