I am against giving Religious conotations to Scientific discoveries or advancements, because such advancements are for all of MANKIND! For Eg: This can be called Indian Contribution to Mathematics, because as modern day Indians we Identify ourselves by our country, not Religion.
Sir, I dont understand this weird logic. If science is for all mankind and then why talk about indian contribution and try to limit the science to the narrow view of nationalism? Because we all want to highlight our nation's, region's, religion's, creed's, or race's contribution towards a higher goal like knowledge.
So if today, a Hindu discovers something, what will it be called? Hindu Discovery? Or Muslim Discovery? Or Sikh or Whatever? if we can do so in todays times, why cant we label our past too by the name of our country?
No. That logic was not the basis for this thread. Yusuf had already given a similar question and I tried to answer him. The contributions are being called 'hindu' because they sprang from that religion/tradition. Lets say a certain scientific theory's basis were to be quran/hadith, then can it be called islamic contribution to science? Yes, absolutely. The same is the case with Hindu contributions.
If you are trying to prove that Hindusim was not rigid back then and helped in advancement of Science fine, but then as time passed, it was Hinduism which proclaimed Crossing the Seas as unrecommended. Same for Christianity which did harm to Scientists and same for modern day Muslim fundamentalists who abhor any kind of modernness.
I am not trying to prove anything. I simply want to highlight hinduism's positive contributions to the world. Sure, Hinduism also has/had its share of drawbacks. If you want to highlight how hinduism led to lack of inquisitiveness and general scientific approach as time passed, then please do start another thread and we will discuss the matter there. But this thread was for the positive contributions by Hinduism. For, negative ones, we can have a separate thread. If you want, I will start thread for that purpose.
Looks like some of us like Emulating our neighbors to the west by bringing giving everything a certain color.
This is worst comparison. So, because religion has been abused and misused by our neighbours to the west should we all give up pride in our religion? Similarly, there are problems in India with regionalism, so should we stop having pride in our region or state? This is strange logic.
I wont argue further, as I hate Mathematics, abhor it and feel it should not be taught at school to the level kids are being taught today. Basic Addition, Subtraction, Multiplication etc. Nothing more!
And Yeah, I didnt read the article or anything, because again I hate Maths!
Sorry, but you should have read the thread, before making a post...
Lastly, when this thread talks about hindu contributions, immediately the questions are why I am giving it a religious color. Well, I like to portray the positive contributions of my religion, simple. Similarly, I may start a thread about contributions to a certain field from my state, because I like to highlight the contributions from my state. Does that mean I am giving regional connotations? That way, we would actually emulating our neighbours to the west who try to immerse all their diversity in their religion. In india, we take pride in our diverse backgrounds because our nationality is not threatened by it.
PS: I request you to restore the name of thread. It is misleading and is not the correct representation of what I had intended to be the subject of this thread. If the thread itself is unwelcome, then please delete it. Also, could you delete all the off-topic posts discussing mundane and personal issues.