[DBeers]

I see nothing about the human mind any more than about the weather that stands out as beyond the hope of understanding as a consequence of impersonal laws acting over billions of years.

I would characterize the 'hopeful' statement as one of blind faith -unproven assumptive posit...

[snarks_when_bored]

I would characterize the 'hopeful' statement as one of blind faith -unproven assumptive posit...

I'm not entirely certain I understand the point you're making here, but I'll guess that you're saying that Weinberg's view that the human mind is not beyond the hope of scientific understanding is somehow based on 'blind faith'. Well, you might be right if the last 400 years or so of scientific discovery hadn't happened. But they have, and we're the heirs to a still-unfolding understanding of the phenomena of nature that is truly cosmic in scope. Given that history, Weinberg's doesn't seem to be 'blind faith' at all, but rather a reasonable take on what future investigation might show.

'Blind faith' seems to me to be something along the lines of what motivates suicide bombers to blow up themselves and others.