“The science world-story, the most generic version anyway, tells believers that the world is neatly divided between things that exist and things that don’t exist, that things are black or they are white, things always work or they never work, that only what can be measured is real. I understand how looking at the world through that lens might bring comfort and offer believers a sense of being in control. My personal experience, though, tells me that story isn’t true.”
This is not what I believe.
I believe that we do not understand things very well. I’m not actually comforted by science.
“Pathetic earthlings. Hurling your bodies out into the void, without the slightest inkling of who or what is out here. If you had known anything about the true nature of the universe, anything at all, you would’ve hidden from it in terror.” — Ming the Merciless
Our catch 22 is that we cannot understand things we do not look at. Whether with our eyes or with other tools. And when I ask you about your ideas, you seem far more interested in telling me what I believe.
How do you know what I believe?
