Maybe this isn't strictly scientific but the track record has been that it's a bad bet to go with human intuition over the math. Indeed the further we go, the least reality seems to conform to human intuition (or common sense). The deeper we probe, the less the hard-wired common sense seems to apply. It shouldn't be surprising, really. Our day-to-day existence doesn't involve the macro scale of the entire universe or the tiny scale of the quanta. Why should we expect either to conform to what we experience routinely at our scale?
As to the OP however, this disconnect shouldn't be seen as a license to invoke everything from pixies to demons to gods. Why would you do that? It's an argument from ignorance and it's invalid.
It's true that there is a shitload we don't know but there is also plenty we do know. What we don't know cannot contradict what we do know. And what we do know exposes primitive beliefs in primitive superstitions like the Abrahamic religions in a very poor light. They are child-like in light of our current knowledge.
They are even childlike in our philosophy. An angry, vengeful god? How silly. Even we very limited humans can see how childish such negative emotions are even as we struggle to overcome them with our limited intellect. A God who cannot overcome them? Please. Why would we have any respect for such a being even it did exist? So much more powerful and intelligent and knowledgeable than us but making even less progress than we are in growing up?
Come back when you have something better.
As to the OP however, this disconnect shouldn't be seen as a license to invoke everything from pixies to demons to gods. Why would you do that? It's an argument from ignorance and it's invalid.
It's true that there is a shitload we don't know but there is also plenty we do know. What we don't know cannot contradict what we do know. And what we do know exposes primitive beliefs in primitive superstitions like the Abrahamic religions in a very poor light. They are child-like in light of our current knowledge.
They are even childlike in our philosophy. An angry, vengeful god? How silly. Even we very limited humans can see how childish such negative emotions are even as we struggle to overcome them with our limited intellect. A God who cannot overcome them? Please. Why would we have any respect for such a being even it did exist? So much more powerful and intelligent and knowledgeable than us but making even less progress than we are in growing up?
Come back when you have something better.
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein
