Geeta-Kavita Collection of Hindi poems & articles
Talk 1:
These three talks in the series Science and Society form a part of the course on the Introduction to South Asia that is a compulsory course for all students in the South Asian University. In the first talk the views of various religions on how the universe was created and how human beings came to the earth, have been discussed. The view of Bhagwat Geeta on the process of creation and destruction of the universe has been described that seems the most logical view. Thereafter the scientific view of the origin of life on earth and the process of evolution described by Charles Darwin is explained. This is followed by a discussion of evolution of human beings over last couple of million years. Time scale of the existence of earth, evolution of different life forms and finally human beings has been explained in perspective. Humans first evolved in the continent of Africa and then migrated over a 100,000 years to different parts of the world. Finally, we discuss the role of language in upbringing in the development of human intellect has been discussed. While languages evolved about 50,000 years ago, the writing skills were developed by humans only about 3000 years ago. Before writing evolved, human history is a black box, about which we can only infer from scientific evidence.
