Editing Subhash Kak (section)

===Ancient astronomy in the Rig Veda===
Kak has also claimed to find evidences of advanced computing and astronomy in the [[Rigveda|Rig Veda]], in what [[Noretta Koertge]] deems to be a "social constructivist and postmodern attack on modern science".<ref name=":2">{{Cite book|title=Scientific values and civic virtues|url=https://archive.org/details/scientificvalues00koer|url-access=limited|first=Noretta|last=Koertge|date=2005|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0195172256|pages=[https://archive.org/details/scientificvalues00koer/page/n242 231], 232|oclc=803903015}}</ref><ref name=":3">{{Cite book|title=Prophets Facing Backward: Postmodern Critiques of Science and Hindu Nationalism in India|first=Meera|last=Nanda|date=2004|publisher=Rutgers University Press|isbn=9780813536347|pages=110, 111|oclc=1059017715}}</ref> He insists that Vedic scientists discovered the physical laws by Yogic meditation and that it is a valid scientific method which can be only evaluated within the paradigm of Vedic assumptions and by those who have attained Yogic enlightenment.<ref name=":2" /> According to [[Meera Nanda]], Kak believes in the superiority of Hindus over Muslims.<ref name="Nanda 2004 98">{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UyoqbCobZOMC&q=%22military+empires%22+%22cultural+empires%22+hindu+muslim&pg=PA98|title=Prophets Facing Backward: Postmodern Critiques of Science and Hindu Nationalism in India|last=Nanda|first=Meera|date=2004|publisher=Rutgers University Press|isbn=9780813536347|pages=98|oclc=1059017715}}</ref> In a 2004 critique, she summarized some of Kak's views on the matter: according to Kak, Hindus built "cultural empires" without military conquest, in contrast to Muslim "military empires" reliant on conquest.<ref name="Nanda 2004 98"/>