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manic expression Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-04-05 08:20 PM
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34. Whatever I say....
along with the accepted historical facts. Give me one sliver of evidence that remotely points to the AIT. YOU CAN'T.

You mean, tremendously objective sites as BBC:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/religions/hinduism/history/history5.shtml

along with the entire historical community. Just keep to your theory that is based on the Bible.

........

The Partition of India has nothing to do with what we're talking about. Care to make another attempt of shifting the argument? Care to try another insignificant cheap shot?

Oh, and just in case there wasn't enough ACTUAL evidence to prove REALITY, here's just a bit of info (does it seem familiar?):

The Aryan Invasion Theory is completely wrong and has been debunked. (a lot of this is taken out of other sources) The theory's inventor, Frederick Max Muller made it because he wanted to fit it into the Biblical story of the creation of Earth. He believed that the world had been created in 4004 BCE, and he also believed the Great Flood ended in 2448 BCE. Therefore, he reasoned that immigration and population of India would have taken until 1200 BCE. With the discovery of the Indus Valley civilizations, people came up with the Aryan Invasion Theory. Obviously, both Muller and these scholars were woefully incorrect.

The Northern people of India have no recollection of invading, and the Southern people of India (supposedly the invaded and subjugated race...which is wrong) have no recollection of ever being driven out of anywhere, or living in Northern India at all. There is much evidence to show this:

The Vedas themselves describe the landscape of northern India and Pakistan. There is no trace of any reference to anything besides the subcontinent (scholars then reasoned that the Aryans must have been fantasizing of what they wished their homeland was!).
The Vedas repeatedly mention a river called the Sarasvati, a place where Aryan communities thrived. There is no such river in India today, but satellite images have revealed the dry bed of a river in the Punjab (northwestern India/Pakistan). This was actually the Sarasvati River that the Vedas had mentioned. Geologists established the river dried up around 1900 BCE...700 years AFTER Muller said the Vedas had been composed.

Archaeologists have not found any evidence of any invasion.
There was no abrupt break of culture, as would happen if there was an invasion of a foreign culture (supposedly made up of nomadic warriors, no less).

There have been many discoveries of Shiva and other deities popular in India today in the ancient Indus Valley ruins. Also, fire pits meant for Vedic rituals were also found in abundance. However, these rites were not supposed to have been in India for another 1,500 years.
No Dravidian-like culture has ever been found in Northern India, and DNA evidence shows almost no difference whatsoever between northern and southern Indians.

All this points to the conclusion that the Aryan Invasion Theory is false.
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