[world-vedic] FW: Puranic Archeological impact

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Hare Krishna,

 

PAMHO. All glories to Srila Prabhupada.

 

It was a very interesting reading. May I receive some very forceful articles on

countering Darvinism. I am a Mechanical Engineer Graduate and working as a

Senior Engineer ( Export Marketing) with a private company. Helps a lot in

preaching to the graduates/undergraduates.

 

Thanks

 

Your Servant,

Dheeraj Verma

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Archeological impact-Micheal Parker

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January 11, 2000 3:41 PM[world-vedic] Puranic Archeological impact>

Original-"Radha-Govinda Mandir" <govinda (AT) mcsa (DOT) net.mx>> Original-

"Radha-Govinda Mandir" <govinda (AT) mcsa (DOT) net.mx>> Original-Fri, 7 Jan 2000

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me sugest too, It's very significtive for the sholars the=20> Universtity

degrees,<>> Dear Hare Krishna Dasa,>> Please accept my humble obeisances. All

glories to Srila Prabhuapada.> I am doing very well without any degree. This

year I have spoken at the> World Archeological Congress, in Capetown, South

Africa, and the => European> Association of Archeologists annual meeting in

Bournemouth, England. I => have> just received an invitation to speak at the

Royal Institution, one of => the> oldest and most prestigious scientific

associations in England. Just> recently, I was invited by the geology

department of the University of> Oklahoma to give a lecture there. They paid

all my expenses. My paper => that> I presented at the previous World

Archeological Congress is being => published> in a peer-reviewed conference

proceedings volume, titled Time and> Archeology, edited by Tim Murray,

publisher Routledge, a big scientific> publisher. I regularly lecture at

universities and scientific => conferences> all over the world. I have some

plan to do the same in Latin America. It> just requires some organization.=20>>

Ph.D. or no Ph.D., one has to have something intelligent and Krishna> conscious

to say and the ability to get people to listen. By the grace => of> Krishna and

Srila Prabhupada, I have something to say and the ability to> get people to

listen. In the end, that is all that matters.=20>> But it is good to have nice

reviews from authorities. For your => information,> I am putting below some

reviews of FA, and also a review of my latest => book> Forbidden Archeology's

Impact.>> >From your email message it is not clear what city you live in and

what> university you study at. What is your field of study?>> Your servant,>

Drutakarma Dasa>>> FORBIDDEN ARCHEOLOGY> by Michael A. Cremo and Richard L.

Thompson> Bhaktivedanta Institute>> EXCERPTS FROM REVIEWS IN ACADEMIC

JOURNALS>> Forbidden Archeology is an extremely controversial book that has =>

attracted> a great deal of attention in the academic world. As might be

expected, => its> anti-Darwinian thesis has provoked many negative reviews,

some of which> misrepresent the substance of the book. But even those who

disagree with> the book's conclusion have sometimes recognized it as a genuine

=> scholarly> contribution and correctly represented the substance of the book

to => their> readers, as shown by the following excerpts.>> "Michael Cremo, a

research associate in history and philosophy of => science,> and Richard

Thompson, a mathematician, challenge the dominant views of> human origins and

antiquity. This volume combines a vast amount of both> accepted and

controversial evidence from the archeological record with> sociological,

philosophical, and historical critiques of the scientific> method to challenge

existing views and expose the suppression of> information concerning history

and human origins." Journal of Field> Archeology, Vol. 21, 1994, p. 112.>> "I

have no doubt that there will be some who will read this book and => profit>

from it. Certainly it provides the historian of archeology with a useful>

compendium of case studies in the history and sociology of scientific>

knowledge, which can be used to foster debate within archaeology about => how>

to describe the epistemology of one's discipline." Tim Murray, in => British>

Journal for the History of Science, Vol. 28, 1995, p. 379.>> "It must be

acknowledged that Forbidden Archeology brings to attention => many> interesting

issues that have not received much consideration from> historians; and the

authors' detailed examination of the early => literature> is certainly

stimulating and raises questions of considerable interest,> both historically

and from the prospective of practitioners of sociology => of> scientific

knowledge." Jo Wodak and David Oldroyd, in Social Studies of> Science, Vol.

26(1), 1996, p. 196.>> "So has Forbidden Archeology made any contribution at

all to the => literature> on palaeoanthropology? Our answer is a guarded 'yes',

for two reasons.> First, while the authors go in for overkill in terms of

swamping the => reader> with detail . . . much of the historical material they

resurrect has not> been scrutinized in such detail before. Second, . . . Cremo

and Thompson => do> raise a central problematic regarding the lack of certainty

in => scientific> 'truth' claims." Jo Wodak and David Oldroyd, in Social Studies

of => Science,> Vol. 26(1), 1996, p. 207.>> "All the reasons and evidence why

modern humans are not rather recent => butÐAmost ancient." Cyprian Broodbank,

in Antiquity, Vol. 67, December1993, => p.> 904.>> "The explicit aim of the

authors is to reconcile paleoanthropology to => the> Vedic ideas that 'the

human race is of great antiquity' and that => 'various> human and apelike

beings have coexisted for a long time.'. . . The => argument> is simple: think

of all the generalizations we can make about human> evolution. Now think of all

the exceptions, paradoxes, mistakes, and> hoaxes. Now switch them. That is this

book." Jonathan Marks, American> Journal of Physical Anthropology, Vol. 93(1),

January 1994, p. 140.>> "The theme of this book is that Homo sapiens 'existed

on earth millions => of> years ago' and that this fact has been suppressed or

ignored by the> scientific establishment because it contradicts the dominant

views of => human> origins and antiquity. To prove this theory, the authors go

over the> history of the principal discoveries bearing on human evolution and

they> review much of the evidence which concerns human origins, especially =>

that> which does not agree with the 'dominant paradigm.'" Ethology, Ecology, =>

and> Evolution, Volume 6, 1994, p. 461.>> "Forbidden Archeology . . . argues

that anatomica>>

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