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Originally Posted by LiseYates
Science just happens to be based on fact.
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I recently got into a long, loud, late night discussion with one of my nephews about this. I will not do him disservice by attempting to present his argument. But, mine was that man has made science into a religion. And, just as with religion, you can be symbolically cast into the village square and stoned for the sin of heresy -- which is the sin of daring to question the sacred cows of the gods of science.
Obviously, since science has from time to time _believed_ things that turned out not to be true --- Piltdown Man, the earth is flat, space is filled with Ether, etc. --- science does, occasionally, _believe_ based on _faith_, not _fact_, just like religion.
Scientists sometimes extend their reach from what is _known_ to what they _believe_ to be true. This is why _Theoretical_ Physicists are called _Theoretical_ Physicists.
A current example of this is Superstring theory. There is a good chance your local library will have a copy of the PBS Nova documentary "Elegant Universe". It is a wonderful layman's introduction into the mathematically complex world of Superstrings. Actually, it is multiple worlds, multiple universes, eleven all together.
In this documentary, you will hear and see lots of men with letters behind their name, typically with an umistakably sheepish grin on their face, admit that:
- We will never be able to measure, or test, superstrings.
- The history of the theory is actually the history of multiple theories, at one time up to five, which had to be modified, tweaked, and from time to time even abandoned, as scientists figured out what might be possible and what could not possibly be possible. Scientists are cool with this process, which is part of what their church calls the Scientific Method. But, it is clear to me that the _exact_ same process is used by theologians. At one time, both scientists and theologians alike _believed_ the earth was flat, and that the earth was the center of the universe. But, with the passage of time, as the real_facts_ began to prove that such ideas could not possibly be correct, both scientists and theologians tweaked what they _believed_ to match the _real_ facts.
- Yet, despite all this uncertainty, superstring theory is still what most young physicists are choosing to get into after graduation.
You know why young theoretical physicists are choosing superstrings as their life work? It is because they _believe_ it may lead to the Theory of Everything -- the one Source from which all forces in our universe [Gravity, Electromagnetic, strong and weak atomic forces] emanate from.
Now, I am more of a philosopher, definitely not a scientist. But, it cannot be denied that their Theory Of Everything sures sounds a lot like what I call God. As a matter of fact, the only black person in the documentary, Dr. E. James Gates, Jr., came right out and admitted that Einstein's quest for the Theory of Everything was his quest to know the Mind Of God.
It is not surprising that it was a son of KMT who tied the pieces together to remind us of what the ancient KMT sages knew thousands of years ago, before the onslaught of barbarians from the north.
Science IS the quest to know ATUM. We can not know the Unknowable, but it is, nevertheless, our destiny to return to the knowledge of the God I AM.
Pss.46:10
Be still, and know that I am God: I will be exalted among the heathen, I will be exalted in the earth.