Christians; how do you regard Hinduism?

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502. As I think about it, perhaps the issue can be phrased better.

I don't view alphabets as mere conglomerations of arbitrary symbols. They are in fact universal notation devices that permit not just re-combination and expansion of vocabulary, but also access to meaning through decoding, irrespective of the language spoken by the decoder. I can see the argument that such notational universality was invented, but I can also see the argument that its ubiquity and qualitative uniqueness suggest that notational universality was a discovery of a pre-existing property.

Similarly, I can see the alternative arguments for invention or discovery of mathematics and the laws of physics.

What we have little evidence of is the actual nature or source of the underlying abstractions (there are no alphabetics, mathematics, or laws-of-physics particles), and the mechanism by which the human computer either made its shift to use of universal notations, or currently uses such universal tools with remarkable and adaptive alacrity.