[orionblamblam]

> This Universe is merely a "Landscape Painting" on a wider scale/scope..

Book suggestion: "The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag" by Robert Heinlein. Covers that very idea.

[hosepipe]

[ Book suggestion: "The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag" by Robert Heinlein. Covers that very idea. ]

So does the bible.. except in more detail with more interesting characters and a believable plot.. Hmmm that would make the bible a auto-pictography.. wouldn't it.. Whats more it would be non fiction..

"Truth, of course, must of necessity be stranger than fiction, for we have made fiction to suit ourselves."-G.K. Chesterton

The difference between fiction and reality is that fiction has to make sense - Tom Clancy

[stands2reason]

Just reread that a month or so ago.

Trippin.

[Forgiven_Sinner]

"Book suggestion: "The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag" by Robert Heinlein. Covers that very idea."

That is one of my favorite short stories by Heinlein. In it, a man meets a character who is an "art critic"--critiquing universes. This one is considered very good. "Who would ever think of eating strawberries, something so pleasurable, as a means of gathering energy for life?" he comments.

I'm surprised to see it mentioned--I thought it was fairly obscure. It is very appropriate to this discussion.

Since you asked, here is my definition of a scientist: one who studies a science.

Science - a body of knowledge; knowledge in general. Derived from experimentation and observation, especially using the "scientific method"

scientific method - a process for discovering knowledge. 1. Devise a hypothesis, an idea about how some feature of the universe might work. 2. Devise an experiment to test the hypothesis. 3. Conduct the experiment and see if the hypothesis passes or fail. 4. repeat until you have a theory that fits all the observations.

These are my personal definitions, not from a dictionary.