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Watching "Cosmos"
January 4, 2016 at 7:42 pm
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Watching Cosmos, sometimes I feel there are still holes to be filled where I am questioning science.
Of course, this very desire for knowledge and willpower to not accept something on the basis of it being told to me is precisely why I am not a theist today.
Then I remember that science does not fill holes with a readily comforting answer as does religion.
Science has always been comfortable with stating it does not know something despite the immense pressure of society to provide an answer.
Science does not cave, and those who are too impatient for answers are also too dumb. Sadly, the too dumb phenomenon is what comprises the majority of human population.
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RE: Watching "Cosmos"
January 4, 2016 at 7:56 pm
Thank you for that quote. Ingersoll is basically my hero.
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RE: Watching "Cosmos"
January 4, 2016 at 8:11 pm
Another thing I love about this show is that it corrects history.
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RE: Watching "Cosmos"
January 4, 2016 at 8:13 pm
Being comfortable with saying "don't know" is a strange way to put it, I've often thought.
I'd say the main reason for scientific pursuits is because of precisely the opposite.
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RE: Watching "Cosmos"
January 4, 2016 at 8:15 pm
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(January 4, 2016 at 8:13 pm)Napoléon Wrote: Being comfortable with saying "don't know" is a strange way to put it, I've often thought.
I'd say the main reason for scientific pursuits is because of precisely the opposite.
I agree, we always want to turn an
I don't know to a veritable
I know.
Science provides the path toward that knowledge.
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RE: Watching "Cosmos"
January 4, 2016 at 8:17 pm
Yeah.
To me it's actually the religious contingent that are the ones content to say "I don't know" by putting their various gods in place as the answer.
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RE: Watching "Cosmos"
January 4, 2016 at 8:18 pm
(January 4, 2016 at 8:17 pm)Napoléon Wrote: Yeah.
To me it's actually the religious contingent that are the ones content to say "I don't know" by putting their various gods in place as the answer.
Except they always state
I know for god as the ultimate solution.
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RE: Watching "Cosmos"
January 4, 2016 at 8:20 pm
(January 4, 2016 at 8:19 pm)Napoléon Wrote: Which is ironic.
Very.
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