RE: We can only see 4% of the universe !
January 30, 2019 at 11:39 am
(This post was last modified: January 30, 2019 at 11:42 am by Brian37.)
(January 30, 2019 at 11:13 am)Yonadav Wrote:(January 30, 2019 at 10:48 am)AtlasS33 Wrote: Until this moment; we only discovered 4% of the universe:
https://www.space.com/11642-dark-matter-...panek.html
If 96% of the universe is out of our reach, sight and comprehension, then how is it so legit for a non believer to just exclude the existence of a creator 7 times bigger than the 96% ?
Isn't it identical to a blind man in a dark castle with a mere cane; who claims that they already know if the castle has a lord or not?
Yep, the more we know, the more we know that we don't know. Every question answered reveals several more questions. Studying Torah is like this. You start out thinking that you are going to master the Torah. The more you learn, the bigger the mountain of Torah that you haven't yet mastered becomes. You learn that learning humbles you.
Most people only learn popular science. What is popular science? It is science presented as entertainment that makes you think that you know all about things that you actually don't know very much about, at all. Learning that makes us arrogant isn't learning. Real learning humbles us.
There isn't anything wrong with pop science as long as we understand that it is pop science. It is only the delusion of real learning that is bad. I love pop science because it is very interesting. It's entertaining. But it doesn't actually make me anymore sophisticated than a cave man. It just makes me like a cave man that has been given a stainless steel knife by a time traveler-- that caveman will immediately become convinced that the stainless steel knife makes him more sophisticated than other cavemen who don't understand metal like he does.
No, the more we know, the more we can ditch old claims, regardless of what we do not know, there is lots we do know.
We do know humans have made deity/god/God claims nobody believes in any longer.
We do know humans gap fill with all sorts of old mythology nobody believes in any longer.
There was an era where humans thought Thor made lightening and thunder. There was a time when humans thought there was an ocean God name Poseidon. There was a time when humans thought Apollo was a real God.
What science does know now, is that our species existed long before any written religion, our planet and universe are far older than our species.
If it bothers you to think of yourself as a finite blip in the universe, it should not, but while there is lots science still has yet to figure out, filling in the gaps with old mythology is not the way to answer anything.
What should frighten you to consider that humans mostly get sold the religions of their parents prior to formulating adult critical thinking skills? What should frighten you to consider that deities/god/s/God/spirits, are nothing more than our species projecting their own qualities on the world around them in superstitious forms?
Sorry, in a 13.8 billion year old universe, on a planet that has had 5 mass extinction events, and knowing our species has only been around for 2 to 300 thousand, years of earth's 4 billion year history, it is ABSURD that all that time was wasted just to put us here, and wait a mere 10,000 years to get to allowing humans to start writing things down.
