A response to the Hindu pretense of profoundity

The below comment in quotes is an example of the silly and pathetic depths to which an educated person corrupted by religious attitude can sink to, in the desperation to defend and swear by his religious opinions

Not convinced or deterred by my response to his feeble attempts at defending the Vedanta, the commenter Vyasa comes up with some more incredulous opinions and statements.

Within his quotes below are the ones highlighted in bold, which are so absurd and obviously nonsensical that I don't know whether it is even worth responding to them. These atrocious fallacies of understanding about the aims, nature and philosophy of science have been responded to so many times, yet it keeps persisting

Anyway below are the comments of the kind of the most shallow understanding of matters

"You know – You can just about deconstruct anything in this world.

The beauty about the temples is actually the variety of myths surrounding them.

A rational thinker or a critical thinker is a failed mind. It is a mind which has concluded that sense experience is all that can be.

The scientist in a true sense is actually a seeker who has imposed boundaries to his thinking. He truly believes that all that we see is all that can be. There is no room for an intuitive understanding of the Cosmos.

High school physics is boring. What you go about discovering or learning are pre-existing truths of the physical world. Yes there are mundane material comforts if Science is used properly. There are also weapons of mass destruction, a highly polluted earth as a result of Technological prowess.

Rather sad. Isn't it ?"

To which I responded thus

Vyasa,

These are my brief responses to your misrepresentations:

”It is a mind which has concluded that sense experience is all that can be”

Reason and science do not conclude anything with finality. They keep seeking and searching and investigating phenomenon. Realism respects the ‘experience of the senses’ and accepts that perception, observation and experience have far more validity and credibility than the flings of imagination, trance-like inspirations and other varieties of idealism and religious experience.

”There is no room for an intuitive understanding of the Cosmos”.

This is only verbiage unless you clearly define what you mean by intuitive understanding of the Cosmos. You can't gain any understanding of the Cosmos by sitting under a Banyan or Peepul tree and staring with closed eyes and chanting OM and mantras.

”What you go about discovering or learning are pre-existing truths of the physical world.”

Those may be pre-existing truths, but you can know them and use them beneficially only when you go thru a formal and empirical process of learning and understanding them and not by chanting Gayatri Mantra 108 times!!!

”a highly polluted earth as a result of Technological prowess.”

Pollution is not just because of high technology. High technology is needed even for non-polluting alternatives. In India, pollution of rivers shows that high technology is not required for destroying natural resources.