RE: A Scientific Basis for Spirit
February 11, 2012 at 9:48 pm
(This post was last modified: February 11, 2012 at 9:52 pm by Cyberman.)
(February 11, 2012 at 9:14 pm)Abracadabra Wrote: I'm sure your right.
There clearly are things that are totally beyond the capabilities of science to ever know. We were never guaranteed that science should be able to address every possible question. So perhaps you're right. Calling upon the scientific method to address these types of questions is a pretty futile thing to do.
We'll just have to accept that some things can never be known I guess.
Actually that's not at all what I said. It's all very well saying that something is beyond scientific investigation, but that just means it has no discernable or measurable effect on what we do know. As such it can probably be eliminated safely from the system à la Occam's Razor.
People have said that things like lightning, rainbows and disease were beyond science too. At one time it was thought impossible to know the distances to the stars. Now we not only those distances to the stars in our own Galaxy, those measurements proved that what were thought of as fuzzy patches of light or gas are in fact galaxies beyond our own. Measuring the distances to those galaxies helped refine the estimates of the age of the Universe which in turn helped validate the Big Bang model (it's rather an involved story).
So yeah, science. Pretty limited.
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.'
