RE: The following is not a question: Can something come from nothing?
April 12, 2014 at 7:16 am
(This post was last modified: April 12, 2014 at 7:17 am by Whateverist.)
Mind if I try your last two points substituting "how" for "why"?
One of my pet peeves is using "why" where "how" will do.
I like the part I underlined very much by the way. There is something naive in the often assumed expectation that science will one day lay bear everything.
(April 12, 2014 at 7:09 am)bennyboy Wrote: "We don't fully understand how the universe formed"
-a truthful (if somewhat obvious) statement of our current state of knowledge.
"We don't fully understand how 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.
One of my pet peeves is using "why" where "how" will do.
I like the part I underlined very much by the way. There is something naive in the often assumed expectation that science will one day lay bear everything.