(January 29, 2017 at 12:33 pm)Gestas Wrote: Don't scientists presuppose that the universe can be rationally understood before doing science? If they don't at least do that then how can they do science? What are they looking for if not logical explanations? I can't think of anything in science that isn't logical. Hard to understand, maybe... not completely understood, sure, but illogical? Nope.
That's not the same as behaving to what you think is logical. It's logical to think the Universe revolves around the Earth because that's what we observe. Doesn't make it reality.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'