(January 25, 2014 at 10:41 pm)Rayaan Wrote: That being said, what is your take on this?
I think that the human brain seeks out patterns and tries to make meaning of everything around it. It's probably a survival skill or a social skill, but it means that we don't like randomness and we don't like disorder. We want everything to have a reason and a simple explanation that we can follow and understand. I think that our brains impose a level of order and forethought to the universe and to the things around us that are not always there.
That said, it seems as if the simplest explanation for any kind of order we might find in the universe is gravity. It's not random and it tends towards order and predictability on certain levels. Seeing so many spheres and discs floating around in space might make it seem as if there is more going on behind-the-scenes than there really is, at least before astronomers and physicists began to get a better understanding of what is going on.
"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
