[capt. norm]

How many times has man arrogantly believed that his science can explain everything? A true scientist reallizes that there are still unkowns out there and often, when a new breakthrough is made, a whole set of earlier 'science rules' have to be trashed and replaced with new findings.

To think we're at the apex right now and everything that doesn't fit the current mold must be false is a ludicrous idea. Reminds me of the fact that they once closed down the U.S. Patent Office because they thought every possible invention had already been created.

[jlogajan]

Reminds me of the fact that they once closed down the U.S. Patent Office because they thought every possible invention had already been created.

That's a similar "fact" to those found in the Bible. In other words, it never happened.

[yendu bwam]

To think we're at the apex right now and everything that doesn't fit the current mold must be false is a ludicrous idea.

Many scientists tend to believe 1) that we are close to discovering everything there is to be discovered (witness the rash of the 'Theory of Everything' books and 2) that everything that is can be brought to light through science. Neither is a certain or even likely assertion.