So there's this gas attendant who is muslim. Every morning I get coffee from his store and sometimes gas. When the store is empty, I engage in conversation with him every now and then. It always comes down to religion and how islam is the true religion. He is very respectful about other religions but he sure has his opinions that he considers facts. Anywho, one day he says that even science has proven that our weight goes down immediately after death; where does the weight go? Thus the existence of soul is proven. He wouldn't believe me when I said that's not science, that's a myth. Weight of a body doesn't go down after death and that's proven. My issue is when religion uses science as a crutch when it likes to and discards it completely when it goes against it's ideology.

Some of the things above are right. We have traced the nerve connection from a body's extremities to internal organs, but to say that joining fingers simulate this connection to enhance whatever function is just a hogwash.

If a person likes another person, and my childhood neighbor (बन्धु uncle) didn't approve of the relation, he'd say, "तलाई त्यो तेस्तो मन पर्छ भने, तेस्को गुं खान, त्यै जस्तै भै हाल्छस कि." Guess what, there's a scientific reasoning behind this common sentence. We have now proven that gut bacteria has a lot to do with our personality and health. This bacterial transformation can be done by introducing the stool sample of a person to another person's intestine- this is actually a proven science. Some claim it has cured their allergy, anxiety etc. So, बन्धु uncle must be right and must have the scientific aptitude to say what he said.

Point is, you can make link anyway you want. There actually are many scientific reasoning behind what our ancestors used to do (like using cow's dung to sanitize a kitchen), what the above article does is discredits (in perception) many things that actually have the scientific connection. Surya namaskar is certainly one of those things with good proven benefits.