(May 11, 2019 at 10:28 am)Anomalocaris Wrote:(May 11, 2019 at 10:19 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: If the comparison is to astronomy, it would be better to liken it to 1000 people on 1000 surfboards all of them equipped with sonar, radar, depth finders and acoustic sensors looking for a very specific object on the ocean floor for 50 years and completely failing to find it.
Boru
No, it’s more like one person groping for 3 minutes with both his hands in water 3 miles deep and covering 3/4 of the size of the planet. He is looking for an object, But he has no idea how big it is, how deep it is, or where it is.
He is feeling for a specific feel, because that is all he could feel, not because the object would necessarily feel that way even if by chance his hands come into contact with it.
If all of our astronomical observations were done with only the naked eye, your analogy would hold up. They aren't, so it doesn't.
Boru
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