Posted on 05/23/2020 8:00:23 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
The alchemists and astrologists who were the distant ancestors of modern science believed in a world of absolute truths. Uncovering the right formula, searching the sweep of sky, offered total control over the otherwise mysterious forces of the universe. Our current knowledge of the way that things are tells us that while the universe may have absolute realities, our understanding of them will never be so.
Quantum indeterminacy has left us with a universe in which the drive to know is constrained by our search for knowledge. Existence seems to be built to challenge our hubris, forcing us to think about our flaws, limiting us to dimensions and points in time, and asking us to accept what we cannot know.
The universe is not a machine that we can take apart and rebuild. It is built to be partly unknowable.
And the more we study the universe, the more we understand the importance of the observer. Science is not the genius jumping out of his bath, shouting, “Eureka”, and running through the streets, without the benefit of his cloak, to jot down the formula: it’s the ability to defy the variability of the universe by achieving the intended results, and replicating them over and over again by different observers.
Doubtless he does. I keep trying to contact him with my erudition.
Pray, illuminate us.
Science is science, politics bends anything & everything to keep politics at the center.
I am so tired of things like this. The left has whatever the latest flavor of Marxism is as a substitute for thought. And too often the right responds with anti-intellectualism as its only solution, abandoning science and thought in general.
ROFL!
I wonder if the other me will have to look up erudition!!
Well I’m 52 and could always use some erudition so always feel free to share :)
52 with a maturity somewhere in the 30s :)
Yep, them wiccans and “indigenous” shamans sure do believe in science.
I guess that makes Dr. Fauci the court alchemist. Lucky for him he lives in modern times. I imagine his schtick would have pissed of the emperor by now and he’d have been flayed alive.
The Left likes ***Science*** as a religion. Science makes no demands.
Greenfield is not promoting anti-intellectualism here. You seem to have missed his point.
New York City is allowing you to hang out on the beaches, but not swim. California is allowing you to swim, but not hang out on the beaches. Both claim science is guiding their policies. 🤷🏻♂️
Not for the few who take the time to read the column.
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