“I certainly cannot explain how we got here, but I’d rather wait a thousand years to see if science can push back a few more layers of our ignorance before positing what seems to me a somewhat metaphorical explanation for our place in the universe.” [1]
My dear lady, I do not know how to break it to you, but there is a fairly good chance that you will be dead in a thousand years from now.
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When Chesterton was finished explaining that some things must be believed to be seen, he would inform Heather Mac that it is not that she does not know the answer, but that she does not know the question.
F A Hayek--
Since the beginning of modern science, the best minds have recognized that the range of acknowledged ignorance will grow with the advance of science. Unfortunately, the popular effect of this scientific advance has been a belief, seemingly shared by many scientist, that the range of our ignorance is steadily diminishing.
Xlbrl, I think the intellectual perversity of modernism has a ready answer: if we steadily reduce the range of rational enquiry, and make the mind ever narrower so as to ask fewer questions of greater knowledge, then the illusion can be created that the range of our ignorance is diminishing.
xlbrl
some things must be believed to be seen - like UFOs?
Do you seriously believe that we are becoming more ignorant about the workings of the human brain, or the genetic basis of disease?
"Do you seriously believe that we are becoming more ignorant about the workings of the human brain, or the genetic basis of disease?"
Is that addressed to me? In any case, it is difficult to see why you would ask such a strange question.
"Is that addressed to me? In any case, it is difficult to see why you would ask such a strange question."
Like Chesterton, you are quite happy to pretend to be stupid in order to avoid answering the question.
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