Dear Cindy,
none of my friends agree with my views. We have debates
heated arguements, but I have lost none of my friends as a result.
Some of them are very religious people, a couple of them are priests too.

Any one can convince on any theory if one has a good power of narration or a glib tongue. Hitler had a vision, he wanted to clean up this world. He had only two classes in mind, the masters and slaves. He convinced his people with powerful speeches. It was an evil plan, an evil dream. The people were so convinced that the entire country stood behind him to make his dream come true. Till today Cindy, the Church has not condemned Hitler's actions. Which is very surprising. The Church has not accepted it as an evil action. It is the power of narration which inspires people to commit acts of evil like terrorism and to become suicide bombers. Do you remember Hara Kari ? something like that. It is indeed very difficult to go against established bliefs. It takes hundreds of years to accept any changes.

Let me give you another fact Cindy. It was Nicolaus Copernicus who first thought of heliocentric theory (the sun being the centre of all the planets) The earth being round and going around the sun spinning on its axis. this was just a theory based on his calculations. Unfortunately Copernicus was a priest. A highly learnerd one at that. He practiced cannon laws and I think he was a physician too apart from being a mathemetician and an astronomer. But he had no proof, it was just a theory. He was afraid to publish it, but his papers were secretly passed or smuggled to other European countries like Holland and Germany, where they were favourably received. It was Galilio who confirmed Nicolaus Copernicus theory, by then Galileo had invented a telescope and he had visual and documented proof that the world is round and it is going around the sun spinning on its axis.

Just imagine the panic in the Vatican. By then Nicolas Copernicus theory was published (perhaps in Holland) and it was given to him on his death bed, he died a week later. Now Galileo was hounded by the Vatican. He was dragged to the Pope and was given a good hiding, he promised to stop any further studies on the subject. But the news had already spread like wild fire.

The cat was out of the bag and it ran all over Europe and parts of Asia.

The Vatican mafia confiscated all the books they could find, they were burnt on the streets in some cases along with the authors. Burning people alive was an 'in thing' those days as chopping of heads became out of fashion and more over the muslims had the copy rights on chopping of heads which they continue to have till date.

Houses were raided Rome Florence and other Cities,in FBI style, the entire family was dragged out where such books were found and they were burnt alive on the streets. This went on for over a hundred years. Galileo was put under house arrest and was not burnt alive because he had high connections in the Army and the Navy because of his inventions. (He invented water pump too)

There was panic in the vatican when Galileo died. He had already become a cult figure. Vatican was afraid that the place of his burial would become a place of pilgrimage for his fans. So his dead body was shifted to many places. He was condemned for 'heresy' as his findings were against the Bible which had established earth's position. Don't know where he was finally buried.

Cindy, Not in 1492, 1592, 1692, 1792 or 1892, but only ONLY as recent as 1992, 14 years ago, the Church finally accepted that the world is round and going around the sun spinning on its axis. The vatican cleared Galileo of all the heresy charges.

This theory of evolution had a different reception in the Vatican. By now they had become wise, they did not want to commit the blunder of putting a lid on the theory. You know they always have money lots of it. They hired scientists and people to write counter theories, the divine dessign and many such theory which you will find on the site you mentioned and in 'Evangelical Sceince' But they always come back to the Genesis. It is not possible for the Church to burn all the people who talk against it. The church too has evolved over hunderds of years. The are the masters of cover ups. Richard Nixon, Bill clinton or George Bush are a bunch of amateurs when compared to the cover ups happened in the Church. these presidents should have taken a crash course from the Vatican which they would have complied with glee. Unlike the theories of Nicolaus Copenicus and Galileo, the. Church this time may accept the theory of evolution a bit faster. They will not carry on with the embarrassment making a fool of themselves for long.

What ever I write is based on facts Cindy, I don't mean to hurt any feelings of beliefs. Even the theory of evolution is not perfect, it has holes in it. But it is most plausible of all the theories till now. Some thing better or near perfect theory may come in the future.

Cindy, Your observation about the picture is true. There may not be any love but showing respect is common practice here in India. It is worse in the north. Wife hardly opens her mouth. She quietly accepts her low position and subjects herself to all the abuses. Things are different in the cities. But still i cannot boast of freedom of women even in highly educated families. Equality is still a distant dream here in India. I'll write more about it in my concluding post on environment.


I am indeed thankful for your comment, there may be a difference of opinion but it helps to open new windows of my mind. Hope you keep making me rich with your views. Hope our friendship continues and grows in the years to come

I sincerely apologise for my late response Cindy.