Just when you thought Religion couldn't get any wackier.

[Dominic]

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-46778879

Indian scientists have hit out at speakers at a major science conference for making irrational claims.

Some academics at the annual Indian Science Congress, inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, had dismissed the discoveries of Issac Newton and Albert Einstein.

They had also said ancient Hindus had invented stem cell research.

Hindu mythology and religion based theories have increasingly become part of the Indian Science Congress agenda.

But academics said remarks at this year's ongoing summit were even more astounding than usual.

The head of a southern Indian university cited an old Hindu text as proof that stem cell research was discovered in India thousands of years ago.

Another scientist from an university in the southern state of Tamil Nadu who was speaking at the conference said that Issac Newton and Albert Einstein were both wrong and that gravitational waves should be renamed as "Narendra Modi Waves".

Dr KJ Krishnan reportedly said Newton failed to "understand gravitational repulsive forces" and Einstein's theories were "misleading".

Critics said ancient texts are still to be read and enjoyed - but it was nonsense to suggest they were science.

The Indian Scientific Congress Association expressed "serious concern" at the remarks.

[WHL]

I put it down to them being vegetarians, a good steak will cure all that malaki

[jagwheels]

First comes religion next comes war

[Jimgward]

Religion was never the cause of war, but the people who used religion as a totem.

Apart from Syria, modern wars, of the past few hindered years, haven’t been religious.