RE: How Nature was able to understand what we need.
October 13, 2017 at 11:22 pm
(This post was last modified: October 13, 2017 at 11:29 pm by AFTT47.
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I can't explain it any better than those who posted above me. I would like to add one thing though: The universe doesn't care whether or not you understand it. It goes on existing the way it is. Do you understand how a television remote control works? How about a blood-pressure medication? How about a fission reactor? All of those things go on functioning according to the laws of physics - irrespective of whether you understand the physical principles under which they operate or not.
We all have our strengths and weaknesses when it comes to understanding and expertise. I am particularly adept at mechanical and electronics technology. Biology isn't my thing. But I understand the scientific method well. I also understand the system within which scientists of all types operate. It is a demanding system which can be brutal to individual scientists and individual hypotheses. It demands results. Put up or shut up. When a theory survives scrutiny under that system for so long and even grows stronger the more it is put under the microscope...well, we begin to have a lot of confidence in it
Perhaps you might study the scientific method itself. It is a methodology for learning what is true as long as the proposition is testable. The claims made by the theory of evolution are testable and have withstood a barrage of testing for over a century. There are few theories of science that are on more solid ground than evolution. I don't personally have a strong understanding of it but my understanding of the system under which it thrives gives me tremendous confidence in its truthfulness.
We all have our strengths and weaknesses when it comes to understanding and expertise. I am particularly adept at mechanical and electronics technology. Biology isn't my thing. But I understand the scientific method well. I also understand the system within which scientists of all types operate. It is a demanding system which can be brutal to individual scientists and individual hypotheses. It demands results. Put up or shut up. When a theory survives scrutiny under that system for so long and even grows stronger the more it is put under the microscope...well, we begin to have a lot of confidence in it
Perhaps you might study the scientific method itself. It is a methodology for learning what is true as long as the proposition is testable. The claims made by the theory of evolution are testable and have withstood a barrage of testing for over a century. There are few theories of science that are on more solid ground than evolution. I don't personally have a strong understanding of it but my understanding of the system under which it thrives gives me tremendous confidence in its truthfulness.
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein
