you see we always you see there a little bit very blunt i'm not like these core points but
the abrahamic tradition is fixated on the idea that animals are something different from human
beings and god created a human being especially in his own image of course not the animals in his own
image and in a way this shows that human beings are nothing not linked with the rest of living
kingdom they are something separate and they are here to live you know kind of kind of you know
if you like exploit the animal kingdom they say you are here in charge of all these animals and
everything that the creation and the earth and everything so this is how the abrahamic
traditions are very keen to promote their idea of no evolution in fact charles darwin a great uh
you know a religious person when he discovered evolution you know when he did the research and
found very clear evidence of evolution that there is continuity of species etc and this is what
the original species etc he had great difficulty in relating to christianity because he said this
central feature of abrahamic tradition that god created human beings is separate adam and eve
it is not right we are a continuation of the animal kingdom this is his discovery of evolution
now the moment this god he had great difficulty for years he struggled with the idea of god and
abrahamic tradition that god created human beings in fact he was very nervous to publish his work
because he thought that he really offends so many bachelors it was really heard backlash so
they portrayed him with the monkey face and all that weird stuff they're doing to him you know
to demolish his dignity and he stood his ground he in fact abandoned the church he became an atheist
simply because of theory of evolution he shows his granddaughter shows his master is a masterly
person clear thinker so evolution is very strong he said this there are still lobbies in
the abrahamic tradition who are very anti you know evolution in the united states in the baptist belt
in some schools you can't teach evolution even today you you want community in the modern world
you are not allowed to reach evolution say no god created human beings separate you're not extension
or there are some kind of links missing that minds evolution not real they're trying to find every
kind of little loophole to show see that evolution is not real there are billions of fossil records
which show very clearly evolution and this story started 3.5 billion years ago where the
first living thing seems to appear on earth fossil record 3.5 billion in fact an interesting you know
conversation with nikki campbell on bbc he said no mr la connie two billion years ago lifestyle
i said no 3.5 million i stood my ground saying no then my corner says okay i play along with
you let's go carry on but this is how life started the very clear evidence you can check out all the
since serious science channels that evolution continued for 3.5 billion years and it then
it produced this complex being called human being the very clear evidence you can't avoid it and and
what we call homosexual being only appeared about 100 000 years ago on earth and there was a recent
discovery of some other creature which is more like still looking like an ape about
200 or thousand years ago when somebody missed luckily this shows that our stories of rama which
was two hundred thousand years is true i said no my friend they were like apes and they are
nothing to do with that particular species seems to die down so you you almost second
survived since about four hundred 100 000 years we clear thinkers if you find some new evidence
we are we ready to be challenged be ready to say that i got it wrong health ability but don't say
oh yes because we saw one skeleton that means there was rama's two hundred years don't talk
down to stuff like that so evolution is very genuine and hindus say always subscribe to and
when i rightly put in the colorful story of the southard we see the evolution the story
of evolution first fish so you know life in in in ocean then it's amphibian then it says while
animal bore then it says um half man half animal and this is a dwarf man then he says a wild man
for surrounding a wild man he you know beheaded so many human beings then he said a more idealistic
man wrong then we say more kind of colorful god or a kind of a playful god krishna and then he said
do you even incorporate this oh he's old one of the but of course the buddhists will not like that
so this is how the story revolution is depicted very nicely in the quran or bhagavata purana or
the vishnu quran they talked about the it's a nice word there already but we already know it and the
one thing that is still a puzzle for evolution we should buy and this is where hinduism will
step in is this when you look at the statistics statistical survey that how can a single cell
being suddenly start to become more and more complex how long would it take for it to become
this complex the answer is 3.5 billion years is not enough this is reality this is scientific
real scientific you know kind of challenge to the i don't think evolution is wrong i'm still saying
it's it's an issue that has not been resolved by the theory of evolution of darwin or modern
ritual tokens they say it's just happened by chance miss lakani you know they just
sleep together in the cutting example given by one very clear thing a professor said look
he's like saying that there's a junkyard and tornado passes through and you had tornadoes
in the bahamas recently a tornado passes through and the junkyard everything can occur just clicks
together somehow the nuts and bolts get together they'll get a plane that can fly already fueled
just because tornado passing through it is that impossible for evolution to allow human
beings to become this you know complex in 3.5 billion years this is a real serious science
and the scientists want to don't listen to it no no it's just chance by chance it happens it can
happen and they get away with it but in reality what the hindus are saying is this is not a if
a random process of progressing in life this is a directed process as if something is directing
life to kind of take on more complex you know so there's some it's not a random process according
to modern biology is random we say no there is it's a directed process let's say but where's how
who directs it the thing is unfolding is directing it this answer and that thing is what we call it's
brahman anyway i'm digressing quite a lot no problem so the next question is by through patel
and thrushal is asking that why do certain hindus especially the knowledgeable gyani mahatmas etc
keep a shikha the younger children of course don't understand why and they feel that it looks funny
but we know uh the the reason why it is there but maybe you can explain it to some of the viewers
okay why uh the [ __ ] is kept i'll just give you some background to it i may be wrong
i'm very aware i like to be gonna put my hands up and i'm not sure but in earlier times when
the youngsters were asked to go and live in the ashram and study any any field you know
maths or sanskrit or whatever when they were they were tiny little boys and of course those were
not there at the moment so the little boys would go and live in the ashram of some great mahatma
and they are trying to study and while they are studying they doze off and this is a story i
heard maybe it may be wrong but i think it's very likely the real reason so they said if you keep a
little shikha and tie it up the boy cannot rose off because the shikha will pull him up saying
carry on study this may be the real background to the idea of keeping a shikha but then this is you
can give if you like it you can chew on meaning to it saying that this is the reason why it is
it's in a way linking to your brain etc but i personally think this may be purely a pragmatic
a practical thing we had adopted a long time ago and still continues i'm not here to demolish
it as i've been saying i'm trying to find a reasonable reason why it may have been there
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