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To: usastandsunited
I did read it.

Please at least tell me you understand why you can't go south of the south pole. If you can grasp that, you're halfway there.

You are trying to explain a phenomenal that You, I, or anyone has no concept to think out of that box. I can no more comprehend that reasoning, than you can explain it. In other words, the very idea that you are human disqualifies you from being able to explain the concept.

Sorry, that doesn't fly. Don't sit there and call me wrong if you can't show exactly how and where I'm wrong. Science is strictly put-up-or-shut-up.

Moreover, few things are more pointless than adopting the (manifestly anti-intellectual) position, "the universe cannot be understood by humans" to a physicist. If I had the smallest particle of sympathy for such an abdication, I'd have a different job.

It's like the educated penguin trying to explain to one of its peon peers why its impossible for birds to fly.

No, it's not like that at all. It's more like someone saying, "there's no such thing as an irrational number, because all numbers can be expressed as a rational fraction. I don't know how and I can't prove it to you, but there it is. Don't bother showing me the trivial proof that the square root of 2 is irrational, because it's just not clever enough."

Ultimately, what you're saying is that anything goes, nothing is knowable, nothing can be proven, and words don't mean things.

1,873 posted on 01/01/2003 6:17:26 AM PST by Physicist
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To: Physicist
Moreover, few things are more pointless than adopting the (manifestly anti-intellectual) position, "the universe cannot be understood by humans" to a physicist..


Bingo. There's your problem. If you could maybe find a tiny bit of crack to open that mind of yours to the possibility that you don't have the answer for everything maybe you could experience a whole new universe out there. In short, your full of yourself. To that, your are correct, it is pointless.


Ultimately, what you're saying is that anything goes, nothing is knowable, nothing can be proven, and words don't mean things.

Once again you miss the point. Your arguments state anything goes. Your arguments state what can't be proven and what is not knowable is "null". Your arguments state words or writings mean nothing, only physical evidence.
1,886 posted on 01/01/2003 8:02:41 AM PST by usastandsunited
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