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In reply to the discussion: Finally, There Are More Young Americans Who 'Believe' in Evolution Than Creationism [View all]Newest Reality
(12,712 posts)16. Maybe you could comment on:
Richard Feynman might have been a poor philosopher, but he wasnt kidding when he wrote:
I think I can safely say that nobody understands quantum mechanics. To work satisfactorily, Big Bang cosmology requires rather a lot of dark matter and dark energy, such that what we can see accounts for an embarrassingly small 5 per cent of everything we believe there is in the Universe. If dark matter is really matter of some kind, then its simply missing from our best theory of matter. Changing one or more of the constants that govern the physics of our Universe by even the smallest amount would render the Universe inhospitable to life, or even physically impossible. We have no explanation for why the laws and constants of physics appear so fine-tuned to evolve a Goldilocks universe that is just right.
Hence, the theory of biocentrism and the question of how much we know as far as what's missing in our observation of the Universe in total. There is a humility in that and our hubris and assumptions can only serve to retard or delay further insights. At least Lanza takes a good stab at trying to explain the inability to give a fundamental reason for the Goldilocks aspect of the constants by way of relationships, though we are effectively only working with that tiny five-percent of what is here in regards to the physical Universe. It is not a settled issue at all.
So then, from the apsects of physics alone, what is the basis your are asserting?
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Finally, There Are More Young Americans Who 'Believe' in Evolution Than Creationism [View all]
NeoGreen
Feb 2020
OP
Yes, here we go again. Religious belief is no different than trust in science.
Major Nikon
Feb 2020
#5
Who the fuck is positing Ockham's Razor as a "Proof" or "bulletproof assertion of actual fact"
AtheistCrusader
Feb 2020
#36
Dictionaries I can find suggest it's related to words for either 'love' or 'precious'/'pleasing'
muriel_volestrangler
Feb 2020
#40