Some People Want Ancient Knowledge System To Be Taught To Engineering Students, Why On Earth?
While the controversy over the decision to include the Bharatiya Vidya Saar Book as a part of the reference material for an elective course on Ancient Knowledge Systems, the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE), said the change isn’t accepted soon as more people are supporting the move.
A group of scientists and experts filed two petitions on September 27, with claims that it endorses pseudoscientific claims about supposed inventions in ancient India.
The petition highlights some of the “outlandish claims” mentioned in the book which includes the discovery of electro-voltaic cell attributed to Rishi Agastya and the book also claims to have given the method of electrolysis to produce oxygen and hydrogen from water. The book also claims that the speed of light and the theory of gravitation has been accurately mentioned in Rig Veda.
AICTE said the book will be given for a review to another expert panel if enough complaints are received.
“There are 2,300 signatures against the book and 4,800 in its support,” said Anil Sahastrabuddhe, chairman, AICTE. HC Pradhan, scientist and expert said the problem is that the book is being shown as “scientific research”.
“Ideas that have not been proven to be true in hundreds of years can’t be portrayed as science. A case study has to be approved by an expert panel and printed in several journals before it is considered official,” said Pradhan.
Officials at AICTE, however, feel the book is meant for students to be experimental with the truth.
“That is true science, where students use their own experiments and ideas to prove age-old scientific methodology. The Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan (publisher) has also promised to make references available to students in the book,” said Sahastrabuddhe, adding the council is asking colleges to conduct scientific investigations and find out the truth behind these theories, in the spirit of scientific research. “We’ll take action when there are enough complaints against it.”
Source: https://www.indiatimes.com/news/india/some-people-want-ancient-knowledge-system-to-be-taught-to-engineering-students-why-on-earth-354590.html
A group of scientists and experts filed two petitions on September 27, with claims that it endorses pseudoscientific claims about supposed inventions in ancient India.
The petition highlights some of the “outlandish claims” mentioned in the book which includes the discovery of electro-voltaic cell attributed to Rishi Agastya and the book also claims to have given the method of electrolysis to produce oxygen and hydrogen from water. The book also claims that the speed of light and the theory of gravitation has been accurately mentioned in Rig Veda.
AICTE said the book will be given for a review to another expert panel if enough complaints are received.
“There are 2,300 signatures against the book and 4,800 in its support,” said Anil Sahastrabuddhe, chairman, AICTE. HC Pradhan, scientist and expert said the problem is that the book is being shown as “scientific research”.
“Ideas that have not been proven to be true in hundreds of years can’t be portrayed as science. A case study has to be approved by an expert panel and printed in several journals before it is considered official,” said Pradhan.
Officials at AICTE, however, feel the book is meant for students to be experimental with the truth.
“That is true science, where students use their own experiments and ideas to prove age-old scientific methodology. The Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan (publisher) has also promised to make references available to students in the book,” said Sahastrabuddhe, adding the council is asking colleges to conduct scientific investigations and find out the truth behind these theories, in the spirit of scientific research. “We’ll take action when there are enough complaints against it.”
Source: https://www.indiatimes.com/news/india/some-people-want-ancient-knowledge-system-to-be-taught-to-engineering-students-why-on-earth-354590.html
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