Now, isn’t that the way of scinece too ?

Fascinating.
Would like to know your views on

“We Indians are extremely good at managing contradictions. That is our gift and curse, both.”

Cheers.

Your story reminds me of a true story.

The ‘true’ story is connected with a temple at Thiruvidaimarudhur here in Tamil Nadu.

There was once an intense debate between Advaitins and Visishtadvaitins. The debate was held in the temple.

As you know, the Advaitins maintain that the world is an illusion and the Brahman alone is true. If they are to be trusted, the individual-the world-the creator God are all illusory. But Visishtadvains grant some reality to the individual, but would never go as far as to deny the existence of God.

However it may be, the debate went on and on for days with no clear winner. Every point made was efficiently countered, till people despaired of ever arriving at the truth.

At that stage, Lord Siva, who is the presiding deity of the temple, Himself declared aloud, “The world is unreal, Brahman alone is real”.

Both the Advaitins and the Visishtadvaitins accepted the decision and went home amicably.

Now, how could the Advaitins accept something on the authority of a God, who is himself unreal? Does this not negate their own contention? And how could the Visishtadvaitins accept something merely because it was uttered by a God, though the utterance negates his own existence?

Yet we intuitively understand the moral of the story, and accept the behaviour of the philosophers. We Indians are extremely good at managing contradictions. That is our gift and curse, both.