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Watching "Cosmos"
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Watching "Cosmos"
Watching Cosmos, sometimes I feel there are still holes to be filled where I am questioning science.

Of course, this very desire for knowledge and willpower to not accept something on the basis of it being told to me is precisely why I am not a theist today.

Then I remember that science does not fill holes with a readily comforting answer as does religion.

Science has always been comfortable with stating it does not know something despite the immense pressure of society to provide an answer.

Science does not cave, and those who are too impatient for answers are also too dumb. Sadly, the too dumb phenomenon is what comprises the majority of human population.
"Never trust a fox. Looks like a dog, behaves like a cat."
~ Erin Hunter
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RE: Watching "Cosmos"
Quote:Only the very ignorant are perfectly satisfied that they know. To the common man the great problems are easy. He has no trouble in accounting for the universe. He can tell you the origin and destiny of man and the why and wherefore of things.
-- Robert Green Ingersoll,
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RE: Watching "Cosmos"
Thank you for that quote. Ingersoll is basically my hero.
"Never trust a fox. Looks like a dog, behaves like a cat."
~ Erin Hunter
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RE: Watching "Cosmos"
Another thing I love about this show is that it corrects history.
"Never trust a fox. Looks like a dog, behaves like a cat."
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RE: Watching "Cosmos"
Being comfortable with saying "don't know" is a strange way to put it, I've often thought.

I'd say the main reason for scientific pursuits is because of precisely the opposite.
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RE: Watching "Cosmos"
(January 4, 2016 at 8:13 pm)Napoléon Wrote: Being comfortable with saying "don't know" is a strange way to put it, I've often thought.

I'd say the main reason for scientific pursuits is because of precisely the opposite.

I agree, we always want to turn an I don't know to a veritable I know.

Science provides the path toward that knowledge.
"Never trust a fox. Looks like a dog, behaves like a cat."
~ Erin Hunter
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#7
RE: Watching "Cosmos"
Yeah.

To me it's actually the religious contingent that are the ones content to say "I don't know" by putting their various gods in place as the answer.
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RE: Watching "Cosmos"
(January 4, 2016 at 8:17 pm)Napoléon Wrote: Yeah.

To me it's actually the religious contingent that are the ones content to say "I don't know" by putting their various gods in place as the answer.

Except they always state I know for god as the ultimate solution.
"Never trust a fox. Looks like a dog, behaves like a cat."
~ Erin Hunter
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RE: Watching "Cosmos"
(January 4, 2016 at 8:18 pm)Kitan Wrote: Except they always state I know for god as the ultimate solution.

Which is ironic.
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RE: Watching "Cosmos"
(January 4, 2016 at 8:19 pm)Napoléon Wrote: Which is ironic.

Very.
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