Lol. I care...
This is nothing, back on my old site we used to discuss things like this for weeks with a bunch of old Ph.D's twice ur age NextGen. This is nothing for me I'm just getting warmed up. And so it begins.
Paroxym, you are one of those people who seem to rely on science as a form of religion, which it is not. In fact by its vary nature science is disprovable. So by disproving religion by science you prove nothing. Science can only attempt to disprove itself. Every day someone comes up with a new reason why science should fail. It is every changing to fit our current understanding of our place in the universe.
@Empire: There is allways the idea that nothing can be proved, but in that direction lies madness. Prove your alive? Prove you exist? I think therefore I am... well prove logic is in fact logical? Strangely enough logic is in fact illogical, because if it was logical it would be based on its on definition and a theory can not prove itself so it would be wrong.
The point is these rules are created so that we as human beings can better manipulate our environment. That my friend is the benefit of science. The application of these theories to doing greater things. Aviaton, *******y, Chemisty, Computers, etc. Now you may feel that the current direction science is heading in is wrong, but who are you to say which direction is right. hundreds of years ago many people would have called Copernicus a fool. Sometimes the importance of science isn't recognized to greater society till much much later.
@NextGen: The probability speech is very heartening. Many people can't understand large numbers, but I can and do realize when the possibility of something happening is powers of times longer the existence of the universe what a low chance that is, but then again fortune has always been in my favor. I was born on perhaps the only planet in the galaxy that could sustain life, which is like finding a grain of sand painted red at Datona Beach. I was born in a free country. Born in a stable home. Luck has been on my side, but where to look to for this. God or religion would be the obvious choice, but if I explain science with God I can prove nothing! No rather we must try to become as God ourselves, that is the only way we will understand the universe. Now what is the chance that we will truly understand everything my friend o_O? That like Empire has been saying is truly zero. and so dividing a zero possibility by zero understanding we get undefined, as the possibility of anything can only be determined as a local understanding. I'm sure like many other things there will soon come a reason to explain why such impossible things occur so frequently. In truth the probability that any theory will stand the test of time is impossible. That does not mean we should not try.
@All: The argument is not one of belief. You can't believe science. The arguments are should we try to understand? Should we try to question our beliefs? If I drop this apple how will I know it won't go flying up into the sky. Seems like a simple Idea, but tell me NextGen what is the possibility that any earthly mammal, would ever contrive such a convoluted thought as that everything around him, and all that he sees is an illusion! That in fact at any moment that apple could not fall, but leap into the sky... There are billions of connections in the nuerons of the human mind. 2 to the billion o_O? How much is that? can you even count it? And yet it so happens that a man by the name of Issac Newton had that thought. So whatever the possibilities of the universe the possibility of the human mind is always greater. And because we are many and each so intelligent. The possibility that we will not discover something to explain these phenomenon is woefully less then that these anomalies will go unexplained while a single human intellect wonders the question: "why?"
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