Quote:Because they're fucking humans. I don't know where you got this theistic concept of "these people are somehow the ones that are supposed to have the knowledge".
Well, inclusion in the NAS seems to imply their expertise and level of respect to be given to their opinion.
Neil Degrasse Tyson has responded to a question similar to mine that the reason is because they are still continuously running up against revelations of experiments that cannot be explained with our current understandings of the laws of science.
There, he argues, is where "goddidit" ends up becoming the fall back answer, even for the most respected of minds.
