RE: The following is not a question: Can something come from nothing?
April 12, 2014 at 7:09 am
(This post was last modified: April 12, 2014 at 7:11 am by bennyboy.)
(April 12, 2014 at 6:39 am)whateverist Wrote: ".. so far as anyone knows YET"
Actually, "yet" is one of my biggest pet peeves. It should only be used in two ways:
1) the issue being investigated is highly similar to one already solved: "We have mapped many genomes, but haven't mapped that of the blue-footed booby yet."
2) it is known how a process should go ahead, but there are (definitely!) only time or obvious technical limitations: "We haven't covered the entire search area yet."
To use the word "yet" in the context of a scientific problem which is not known to be solvable is ironic-- it is a statement of faith without sufficient evidence.
So:
"We don't fully understand why the universe formed"
-a truthful (if somewhat obvious) statement of our current state of knowledge.
"We don't fully understand why the universe formed, yet."
-unscientific horseshit, which rebrands the scientific process as big-s Science, the institution full of wise elders who we must believe can solve our problems. Sounds a lot like church to me.
