It is not a lack of imagination but a lack of credulity and an inability to abandon reason and accept things on faith.
It is not a lack of imagination but a lack of credulity and an inability to abandon reason and accept things on faith.
It takes a lot of faith to believe atoms are little balls rolling around other little balls like a pin ball machine..
You know.... when they ain’t....
Most scientists and a vast number of “the Little people” have believed THAT; none of which still have an inkling of what Quantum Physics actually is.. or even the Quantum Physicists so far(LoL)...
Dark Matter(energy) could be the Spiritual Realm which as good as an explantion as any other I know about.. and I know of quite a few..
The “Lack of Faith” in something, portends arrogance and hubris.. according to my experience.. Which is OK with me.. Heck most people I know think Barry Half-White is black when he as white as he is black.. It takes faith to believe he is black..
Yes; even democrats have faith in some things.. which mostly strains credulity.. Science fiction MUST BE very logical or whats the point?... Reality need not be logical at all... You know.. nothing to prove..
What is... “IS” and what ain’t .... “AIN’T”..
And yet it seems many people of your camp have unlimited faith, not only in the scientific method, but in unlimited "human progress." I can't tell you how many times I have been told over the years that, "yes, it is true science doesn't have all the answers re: X problem [fill in the blank] YET; but it will at some future time."
If this isn't an example of "faith," then I don't know what it is. It is faith in an unshakeable epistemically prior conviction that the regnant scientific "methodological naturalism" approach can answer all questions — if not today, then eventually, i.e., at some future time.
That strikes me as pretty credulous. Not to mention I consider it unreasonable to reduce the world to the size of one's own presuppositions. This sort of exercise is to commit Whitehead's Fallacy of Misplaced Concreteness.
FWIW albionin. Thank you for writing.