Bear-Arms you come up with a lot of interesting stories. I ran this one on the ANU homepage. Science and anthropology are always presented with a certitude and confidence such that no mere citizen would dare to doubt the basic assumptions and conclusionspresented as truth as forcefully as religions claim to get their certaintys from their God.
But science is continuously proved wrong. As just one of manyexamples that could be cited, most of the astronomy authoritatively presented to me in my youth has since been superceded by different theories and ideas.What I was taught as a youthwas so far off from what is accepted today as tobe stunning. When we observe science over time, almost all of its ideas, procedures and beliefs from 50 and 100 and 300 and more years ago now appear completely discredited, often comically so. I've seen this process happen in my own life many times. So many explanations and theories of even 20 or 30 years ago have been replaced by new "timeless truths" replacing the old "timeless truths."
The reality is that we stillknow next to nothing about the oceans and underwater life, especially the deep seas. That's 70 percent of Planet Earth that is basically unknown and unexplored. We also know nothing with certainty of what Earth is composed of beginning just a few miles underground and going to its core.Is the core hot or cold, liquid orsolid, no one knows.
Sleeping, something people do for roughly a third of their life, remains a mystery as to how it works and why we even need it. Much about the operations of the incredibly powerful and wondrous brain is not known, and the mind is a complete mystery which many scientists do not evenbelieve exists. In a secularized society, science is promotedwith the same type of infallibility that secularists criticize religion for. Much science is flawed and proven humorously wrong again and again over time, though the mistakesand revisionsare rarely acknowledged as such. In additionScience ignores spirituality, the mind, and various types of energies that many believe were left by deceased individuals and/or are attempts by deceased peopleto watch overand guide their loved ones, much as guardian angels would act. In other words, no alternatestates of beingor realities can exist other than the purely physical laws that man is said to be bound by.
Quantum physics is moving toward connecting energy and intelligence. My critical mind, mixed with common sense, tells me that man is not yet at the beginning of the beginning of understanding the laws and nature of the universe, including even those here onour home, Earth.Edited by: Don Wassall
