Birth and Caste (was Re: [Advaita-l] RE: Vedic Shakhas ...)

[abhishek rk]

Namaste,
This is a link somewhat connected to the ongoing
discussions. 
http://www.hinduism.co.za/kaliyuga.htm

Regards,
Abhishek

 --- S Jayanarayanan <sjayana at yahoo.com> wrote: 
> --- "Jaldhar H. Vyas" <jaldhar at braincells.com>
> wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, 2 Feb 2005, S Jayanarayanan wrote:
> > 
> 
> [..]
> 
> > No I'm not disputing the validity of genetics. 
> I'm asking
> > what does that
> > prove concerning dharma?  If we accept the
> brotherhood of man
> > based on
> > substantially similiar genetics, why not also
> accept the
> > brotherhood of
> > worm and man based on substantially similiar
> genetics?
> > 
> 
> The "similarity" in the genes between a nematode and
> a human is
> *only* in the *number* of genes (24000 for humans
> and 19000 for
> nematodes), NOT in the nature of the genes. I'm not
> sure why
> you're saying there is a lot of similarity between
> the genes of
> a human and a nematode?
> 
> The number of genes in two humans is not only
> identical, but the
> similarity between the genes of two humans is about
> 99.9%
> identical! There is very, very good reason to
> believe that there
> is *some* relationship between two humans.
> 


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