Claims to ancient scientific advances
During a recent visit to Dubai, more than once I discovered evangelists in malls handing out Islamic literature, telling of the religion in simple formats and laying claim to 'scientific' truths propagated by the Quran, which were later picked up by scientists as western knowledge. i read and wondered at the claims,that sounded rather familiar, if amateurishly argued. Back home, I found an old book in my personal library, much better argued "Islam and Science" from which those truths had been picked, presumably. More recently, came recent additions to the compulsory reading list being offered to school students in Gujarat from the father of book pulping, Dina Nath Batra. In his Tejomay Bharat, he argues that the patent on stem cell therapy for regeneration of body parts was first taken by a Dr. Balkrishna Ganpat Matapurkar! The good doctor was, it appears, actually inspired by none other than the Mahabharata in which Kunti delive...