Comments on: When Faith meets Facts http://notyourmomsblog.com/archives/1265 Stop Your Crying, or I'll Give You Something to Cry About..... Wed, 04 Jan 2012 17:54:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: TOM http://notyourmomsblog.com/archives/1265/comment-page-1#comment-689 TOM Tue, 03 Aug 2010 05:19:14 +0000 http://notyourmomsblog.com/?p=1265#comment-689 My belief is, the more we find out about the beautiful and complex operation of our Universe the easier it becomes to believe in an all powerful ONE, a CREATOR, if you will. And for the sake of progress HE keeps letting us peek under the veiled curtain of existence but without fail always with the proviso that things as we understand them will become more beautiful along with the increased complexity. I submit the double helix as a trivial example. Our understanding of Science, particularly Physics has always been limited at any given point in history by our mathematical prowess as human beings . Some scarce few humans are blessed with the necessary extraordinary gray matter and thereby they have the advantage over us. They have the vision and the capability to imagine alternative ways of looking at things, Their abilities include creating theories of their own or in cooperation with other smart people that corresponds to their concepts for predicting the performance of natural phenomena supported by a consistent set of mathematics that unequivocally support them in all testable areas. The development of modern computers has been an accelerating factor in the expansion of our knowledge. Educated people can understand at some level what they are talking about, others just accept popular opinion as "truth" along with advances and changes as they occur, so long as they are generally approved by most of the science community. Still others don't have the foggiest idea what is being explained to them and still others haven't the slightest interest in Physics and know and care next to nothing about it. I would be very careful about equally weighting the opinions of all the people responding to a poll on the subject of GOD/Faith vs Science. Besides, opinions don't create truth. Thomas Carlyle once said "I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance" If you are even slightly knowledgeable about measurements in Physics you know that just the attempt to discern a physical fact can change the results. Well give us credit for at least being aware of our influence on our own experiments. The new CERN Collider is our latest attempt by man to probe GOD'S plan. It is so large it crosses international borders all in an effort to find a particle type that was theorized back in 1964 called the "Higgs boson" It cost a fortune to build this thing and I hope it works because it will, as has each surprising experimental result in the past added to our knowledge. I am sure the Collider will raise more questions than it answers. And so we continue on our journey of evolution and understanding. From Einstein's original four dimensional model (3 space + time., back in 1907) we are now at ten dimensions plus time which makes it 11 total dimensions. Even The Big Bang is now in question by the Membrane and string theorists. So I ask the simple question, are scientists starting to become convinced that they will never find all the answerers and will finally be forced in the end to rely at some point, can I use the word, on FAITH. I submit they will have to, the Universe is too big and we can no longer afford their new toys. My belief is, the more we find out about the beautiful and complex operation of our Universe the easier it becomes to believe in an all powerful ONE, a CREATOR, if you will. And for the sake of progress HE keeps letting us peek under the veiled curtain of existence but without fail always with the proviso that things as we understand them will become more beautiful along with the increased complexity. I submit the double helix as a trivial example.

Our understanding of Science, particularly Physics has always been limited at any given point in history by our mathematical prowess as human beings . Some scarce few humans are blessed with the necessary extraordinary gray matter and thereby they have the advantage over us. They have the vision and the capability to imagine alternative ways of looking at things, Their abilities include creating theories of their own or in cooperation with other smart people that corresponds to their concepts for predicting the performance of natural phenomena supported by a consistent set of mathematics that unequivocally support them in all testable areas. The development of modern computers has been an accelerating factor in the expansion of our knowledge.

Educated people can understand at some level what they are talking about, others just accept popular opinion as “truth” along with advances and changes as they occur, so long as they are generally approved by most of the science community. Still others don’t have the foggiest idea what is being explained to them and still others haven’t the slightest interest in Physics and know and care next to nothing about it. I would be very careful about equally weighting the opinions of all the people responding to a poll on the subject of GOD/Faith vs Science. Besides, opinions don’t create truth.

Thomas Carlyle once said
“I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance”

If you are even slightly knowledgeable about measurements in Physics you know that just the attempt to discern a physical fact can change the results. Well give us credit for at least being aware of our influence on our own experiments. The new CERN Collider is our latest attempt by man to probe GOD’S plan. It is so large it crosses international borders all in an effort to find a particle type that was theorized back in 1964 called the “Higgs boson” It cost a fortune to build this thing and I hope it works because it will, as has each surprising experimental result in the past added to our knowledge. I am sure the Collider will raise more questions than it answers. And so we continue on our journey of evolution and understanding.

From Einstein’s original four dimensional model (3 space + time., back in 1907) we are now at ten dimensions plus time which makes it 11 total dimensions. Even The Big Bang is now in question by the Membrane and string theorists.

So I ask the simple question, are scientists starting to become convinced that they will never find all the answerers and will finally be forced in the end to rely at some point, can I use the word, on FAITH. I submit they will have to, the Universe is too big and we can no longer afford their new toys.

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