<Science belongs to those who hold no limits on what can be known >
Didn't you claim you knew all about meteorology because you needed to know it for your pilot's license? I let it pass at the time, but that was an incredibly dumb and conceited thing to believe about one's state of knowledge, and incredibly unlikely to be true, except in your own mind.
If you need your memory refreshed it was in this post:
Message 20947833
I fully understood the science of weather by my 20s
Real scientists know that there are limits to what they know personally, or what the science can know in general, but struggle to know anyway (like the exact color of dinosaur skin). Science is all about intellectual hard work, simplifying and Occam's Razor. The simplest explanation that includes all the data is the best one. One doesn't include many things that might be true in their theory, but for which there is no evidence. These, in the language of science, are conjectures. There are many potentially true things that are not part of any cohesive theory. Religion, OTOH, provides answers not easily verified. Different stuff, and fine if you like it. It isn't science and actually, is an impediment to science. Belief in a God of the Harvest impedes your ability to develop agriculture because one has already decided what causes crops to grow! I'm sure there were people that chose to sacrifice to a God rather than simply remove diseased plants from the field. |
