(May 11, 2015 at 1:35 pm)Alex K Wrote: Faith? What do you mean by that?
It's like when you aim that bank shot in pool and you just know it's going to go in...
(May 11, 2015 at 2:11 pm)LostLocke Wrote: Move the goalposts farther back?
Well, faith is a moving target. Kind of like Zeno's paradoxes where you never get there. Science has done pretty good getting to within 400K years of the apparent origin by observation, in a universe thought to be 30K-fold older than that. And the theory, albeit with less certainty, can penetrate to a possible "inflationary era" only some 10^-34 seconds after it all hit the fan. I don't see why anyone wants to keep the old pedestrian creation stories where the cosmos is hardly older than writing and the critters are all cattle, fish, and birds...an Anomalocaris made of condensates from supernova dust is much more exciting!
(May 11, 2015 at 2:12 pm)robvalue Wrote: What happened to my reasonable counterpart? Did he philosophise and run?
Is that like a hit & run? Do we have any witnesses? So the cops can catch 'em?
