(May 9, 2013 at 12:20 am)xdrgnh Wrote: How can technology detect something that is not time space or matter if that is all that exists in the universe?
That's the issue, isn't it? We don't have all the answers, except for those who have answers that they cannot corroborate because the evidence cannot possibly be detected. The ancient people who believed that the universe was carved out of the carcass of a dragon slain by a god have exactly as much proof of their assertion as the person who thinks it was all assembled from nothing by an "intelligent designer."
If that's the case --if the universe was created by a being we cannot detect and who deliberately hides from us-- then I don't see the use in trying to find him; it would seem as if he wanted us to just enjoy the universe and stop bugging him.
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould
-Stephen Jay Gould
