[waterheater]

Indians predominantly subscribe to the Hindu belief system, which is quite foreign from the Western ideologies imposed on them by the British.

Consider the concepts of atman (essentially, meaning Self) and avatars (essentially, deities coming down to earth to take on human form). Darwinian evolution acts as a simplified, analogous representation of the grander evolution of Self as told in Hindu mythology. According to Hinduism, atman evolves by inhabiting more complete forms of physical vessel, passing from fish to amphibian to cow to human to Buddha.

Additionally, Hindu belief systems admit the existence of reincarnative process, which Western belief systems, including our most fundamental prevailing scientific axiom, do not. Darwinian evolution and an overarching reincarnative process cannot coexist because the former requires that the physical world is the totality of reality while the latter requires that the physical world is a small but important portion of reality. Humans are either the descendants of monkeys via a completely-observable evolutionary process, or forces beyond those which are Seen shape our development.

Western arrogance dismisses these ideas as invalid at face value. A Westerner should honestly seek to understand the Hindu belief system and suss out where it is accurate and inaccurate without resorting to pathos argumentation.

[JumpCrisscross]

> Darwinian evolution and an overarching reincarnative process cannot coexist because the former requires that the physical world is the totality of reality

What? No it doesn't. In fact, evolution comports rather nicely with reincarnation–there is a finite number of souls reincarnating through ever-evolving bodies, working together across time to press life as a whole forward.

> Humans are either the descendants of monkeys via a completely-observable evolutionary process

Humans are not descendants of monkeys. That is not, and has never been science. Humans and monkey share a common ancestor, as do all mammals.

[qwytw]

> without resorting to pathos argumentation

Unless there is observable evidence for these claims it might be the complete inverse of that?

> from the Western ideologies imposed on them by the British.

So all the people who actually have embraced scientific thought (logical reasoning in general) only did so because the British forced? Seems like a great bunch.. these British, just don't tell this to the French or Germans.