Alam_dar Posted May 24, 2020 Posted May 24, 2020 In Vedas, the oldest of the Hindu scriptures, the cow is associated with Aditi, the mother of many gods. There are many verses in Vedas who praise the cows and consider them the blessing. I wonder if the Authors of the Vedas (the gods) had any idea about "Aurochs" and that the modern cows descended from them through the process of evolution? And it happened only 8000 ybp (years before present) in the Indus Valley? There are tons of fossils of Aurochs, but no fossil of any cow that is older than 8000 ybp. There are many cave painting who have these Aurochs, but none of the cave painting (older than 10000 years) all over the world have any cow. Here is one from cave painting of Indian Auroch from Bhimbetka rock shelters I wonder if religious people do ponder upon these contradictions in science and the religion?
MechEng Posted May 24, 2020 Posted May 24, 2020 You are using secularized understanding of the world to understand something that is beyond human comprehension. I'm no religion expert but from what I heard during my visits to ISKCON Juhu long time ago that we should avoid using human logic to understand extraterrestrial phenomena. I've heard stories that each Hindu god/goddess governs a realm/universe where there are planets with living beings having a life span in millions of human years. There is a concept that one day and night of a person living in deva(demigod) realm is equivalent to 24000 human years. Which is why I refrain from using too much logic while reading religious stories and try to understand the message behind them.
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