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To: MacDorcha; metmom

“And what would that prove scientifically, to you about my existance?”

Wouldn’t prove anything to me except that you are silly. It would prove to you that you exist.

The point is that your premise is silly. There are many many things that science cannot explain. That doesnt mean they don’t exist it merely means we don’t understand enough about the universe to explain it.

IMO, I don’t think our brains are capable of understanding everything in the Universe. Further that those people who profess that science is the end all to be all are not only dangerously arrogant but are also significantly less wise then they think.


250 posted on 05/31/2007 9:54:04 AM PDT by driftdiver
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To: driftdiver
IMO, I don’t think our brains are capable of understanding everything in the Universe.

Some brains are not capable of understanding 9th grade biology.

251 posted on 05/31/2007 9:58:05 AM PDT by ColdWater
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To: driftdiver

“Further that those people who profess that science is the end all to be all are not only dangerously arrogant but are also significantly less wise then they think.”

Exactly the point I was trying to make.

Knowledge does not mean understanding. Observation does not mean knowledge. Science does not mean truth. It only offers *a* conception of reality.

A, FWIW, poking myself in the eye would only scientifically “prove” that I had a sensation of pain that followed a brief outline of a finger rapidly approaching. It would neither prove the act itself, nor the resulting sensation. Only that I had the sensation.


271 posted on 05/31/2007 12:31:19 PM PDT by MacDorcha (Peace is not the highest goal - freedom is. -LachlanMinnesota)
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