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Post by alanc9 on Jun 1, 2017 1:34:25 GMT
That gif doesn't answer the question. It suggests that Heisenberg had an answer, or thought he did, but doesn't say what it was. It does if you understand physics. The issue is that when you start to learning physics to get answers...but once you start mastering it you find out no one really has answers and don't really know why everything works...just that it works and how it works. So would left with nothing but the faith that everything will continue to work even though you don't no why it works. Thus science leads to faith. That's a fairly thin faith, isn't it? Just faith that the universe will keep working the way we've seen it work so far, right?
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Post by alanc9 on Jun 1, 2017 1:43:19 GMT
Suvi seems to have a sort new age religion thing going on, her beliefs aren't really explained because she isn't in the game for that. What i mean is that she is a scientis with the little quirk of "religious", that's how bioware sees it. There isn't a lot more depth than that. It's just another tick in the notebook of token characters - by adding her they can say: "look we represent everyone on our games". As that is what the neo-left demands now, and by pressure, companies like BW are giving it to them. However it's pretty good PR for their target demographic - teenagers, and all the social media who feeds them this stuff. I'm not sure how this could be improved. Would burning the wordcount to add more depth actually be a good use of resources? Should they go the other way and just never have anyone talk about this stuff at all? Or keep doing what they're doing?
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Post by dreman999 on Jun 1, 2017 1:44:53 GMT
no not that. the joke is science leading to faith because in the end we still don't know how or why thing in physics works. Its not what? Its a silly and naive notion that shows that he's out of his depth on the topic (like Hawking's idea about using philosophy to argue against using philosophy). Being a brilliant scientist doesn't preclude being a piss-poor theologian or philosopher, so just stick to do what you do best. dude. this is the guy who came up with the concept of dark matter, the thing believed to control gravity that can't be see, touched, scaled, or calculated out side it effect of gravity. The thing Einstein hinted at existing. the thing that we can see no matter what but believes controls all gravity which we still don't understand. Gravity the thing we don't know why it works yet always believes is there. So but the guy has a point. If we have faith gravity always works with out understanding why it works why would belief in god be stretch. And people who try to use science to argue ageists god never take note of this. These guy's seen things and understand thing you don't and understand we don't have the answer and taking faith in thing we don't understand , they have a point. if you don't understand then answer me this then...why does gravity work?
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Post by Hanako Ikezawa on Jun 1, 2017 1:46:29 GMT
I'm really glad they have Suvi be the way she is. It's nice to have a character who is both religious and a scientist. The two don't have to be at odds with each other.
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Post by griffith82 on Jun 1, 2017 1:49:19 GMT
I wasn't trying to start anything. I seem to forget that on the BSN if you have an opinion it's best to 🤐 . *attacks an opinion* *gets rebutted* "Stop attacking me!" *acts the victim* Seriously... No I just am tired of arguing.
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Post by R'Shara on Jun 1, 2017 1:57:05 GMT
Then don't start an argument? I mean you know my opinion of this mechanic. You know I will defend my opinion. If you want to debate it I'm going to be down with it. But don't start a debate or argument then act like I'm the one that instigated it and claim to be attacked for it.
If you think it's fine then good for you. I've lived in the west and SW US all my life as do most of my friends. 120f is not dangerous unless you're being dumb.
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Post by dreman999 on Jun 1, 2017 2:13:07 GMT
Then don't start an argument? I mean you know my opinion of this mechanic. You know I will defend my opinion. If you want to debate it I'm going to be down with it. But don't start a debate or argument then act like I'm the one that instigated it and claim to be attacked for it. If you think it's fine then good for you. I've lived in the west and SW US all my life as do most of my friends. 120f is not dangerous unless you're being dumb. ...um...
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Post by R'Shara on Jun 1, 2017 2:17:20 GMT
A black metal pan out in the sun for 2-3 hours is going to be far more than 120F, just so you know. And the guy doing it is not dying, is he? And he's out there the whole time it's cooking.
Edit: An egg requires a temperature of about 160F in order to become firm. I'll completely agree that 160F is pretty hazardous.
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Post by R'Shara on Jun 1, 2017 2:19:34 GMT
Its not what? Its a silly and naive notion that shows that he's out of his depth on the topic (like Hawking's idea about using philosophy to argue against using philosophy). Being a brilliant scientist doesn't preclude being a piss-poor theologian or philosopher, so just stick to do what you do best. dude. this is the guy who came up with the concept of dark matter, the thing believed to control gravity that can't be see, touched, scaled, or calculated out side it effect of gravity. The thing Einstein hinted at existing. the thing that we can see no matter what but believes controls all gravity which we still don't understand. Gravity the thing we don't know why it works yet always believes is there. So but the guy has a point. If we have faith gravity always works with out understanding why it works why would belief in god be stretch. And people who try to use science to argue ageists god never take note of this. These guy's seen things and understand thing you don't and understand we don't have the answer and taking faith in thing we don't understand , they have a point. if you don't understand then answer me this then...why does gravity work? I'm not an expert, but from what I've seen of those scientists, their reasoning is that there is such perfection in nature, in the tiniest, most miniscule part of a possibly infinite universe, that it proves to them there's a divine hand behind it all. Rather than because they have faith that it works. I mean, I'm basically agnostic, bordering on atheist, but even I wonder sometimes, when I see a sunset, or the stars twinkling down at me, or ponder a perfect spiral galaxy.
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Post by cobalt72 on Jun 1, 2017 2:30:07 GMT
I didn't watch the video but how long was he out there? I'm not an expert but I think it may be a problem if you're walking everywhere opposed to driving. I mean, the hazard doesn't become dangerous until you've been out for a bit or walked a lot
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Post by dreman999 on Jun 1, 2017 2:30:22 GMT
dude. this is the guy who came up with the concept of dark matter, the thing believed to control gravity that can't be see, touched, scaled, or calculated out side it effect of gravity. The thing Einstein hinted at existing. the thing that we can see no matter what but believes controls all gravity which we still don't understand. Gravity the thing we don't know why it works yet always believes is there. So but the guy has a point. If we have faith gravity always works with out understanding why it works why would belief in god be stretch. And people who try to use science to argue ageists god never take note of this. These guy's seen things and understand thing you don't and understand we don't have the answer and taking faith in thing we don't understand , they have a point. if you don't understand then answer me this then...why does gravity work? I'm not an expert, but from what I've seen of those scientists, their reasoning is that there is such perfection in nature, in the tiniest, most miniscule part of a possibly infinite universe, that it proves to them there's a divine hand behind it all. Rather than because they have faith that it works. I mean, I'm basically agnostic, bordering on atheist, but even I wonder sometimes, when I see a sunset, or the stars twinkling down at me, or ponder a perfect spiral galaxy. That old school science. Newton's school of science belief. And Ironically perfect spiral galaxies lead to dark matter theory. Anyway, I taking about perspective after they start looking into things not from before. when you reach the end of the mastery of the understand of what man knows about physic, you'll be surprised in how little we know. We have no guarantee the laws of physics will always stay the same later then what it is now.
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Post by alanc9 on Jun 1, 2017 2:30:52 GMT
Then don't start an argument? I mean you know my opinion of this mechanic. You know I will defend my opinion. If you want to debate it I'm going to be down with it. But don't start a debate or argument then act like I'm the one that instigated it and claim to be attacked for it. If you think it's fine then good for you. I've lived in the west and SW US all my life as do most of my friends. 120f is not dangerous unless you're being dumb. You'd dislike the mechanic even if they used better numbers, right?
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Post by R'Shara on Jun 1, 2017 2:33:55 GMT
Then don't start an argument? I mean you know my opinion of this mechanic. You know I will defend my opinion. If you want to debate it I'm going to be down with it. But don't start a debate or argument then act like I'm the one that instigated it and claim to be attacked for it. If you think it's fine then good for you. I've lived in the west and SW US all my life as do most of my friends. 120f is not dangerous unless you're being dumb. You'd dislike the mechanic even if they used better numbers, right? Actually, I think it'd have been fine if they didn't half ass it. As long as they also fixed Voeld never moderating. Something like 150F+ for level 1, 170F or 180F for level 2, and 200 for level 3 would have been very realistic numbers. Ditto with the cold and the radiation hazard. -50C isn't pleasant by any means, but people bundle up and live/work/play in that temperature all the time. -80, -100, -120C would have been realistic. For radiation, the current level 1 hazard is background radiation that we live with every day. They seriously just picked numbers out of their asses.
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Post by dreman999 on Jun 1, 2017 2:39:42 GMT
A black metal pan out in the sun for 2-3 hours is going to be far more than 120F, just so you know. And the guy doing it is not dying, is he? And he's out there the whole time it's cooking. Edit: An egg requires a temperature of about 160F in order to become firm. I'll completely agree that 160F is pretty hazardous. I'll give the point that what is going on with rdyer dieing in second on eleedan is bs but being outside when it;s hot like that can be super dangerous give an hour or 2......not in 5 second like with ryder but you know... Video game logic...
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Post by R'Shara on Jun 1, 2017 2:43:50 GMT
A black metal pan out in the sun for 2-3 hours is going to be far more than 120F, just so you know. And the guy doing it is not dying, is he? And he's out there the whole time it's cooking. Edit: An egg requires a temperature of about 160F in order to become firm. I'll completely agree that 160F is pretty hazardous. I'll give the point that what is going on with rdyer dieing in second on eleedan is bs but being outside when it;s hot like that can be super dangerous give an hour or 2......not in 5 second like with ryder but you know... Video game logic... Yeah if you're outside in 120+ for hours, and you aren't careful, you could die. That's how those hikers died in death valley not so long ago. But even if you're not careful, it would take a while before it's dangerous, not the few min that Ryder (with LIFE SUPPORT) does. If you're careful, you can be out for hours and still be fine. Just add an extra 20 or 30 degrees (either F or C) to the hazard levels, and I'll call it good. www.nps.gov/deva/planyourvisit/summer-visit.htmLol the lit torch always made me facepalm.
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Post by q5tyhj on Jun 1, 2017 2:45:30 GMT
Its not what? Its a silly and naive notion that shows that he's out of his depth on the topic (like Hawking's idea about using philosophy to argue against using philosophy). Being a brilliant scientist doesn't preclude being a piss-poor theologian or philosopher, so just stick to do what you do best. dude. this is the guy who came up with the concept of dark matter, the thing believed to control gravity that can't be see, touched, scaled, or calculated out side it effect of gravity. The thing Einstein hinted at existing. the thing that we can see no matter what but believes controls all gravity which we still don't understand. Gravity the thing we don't know why it works yet always believes is there. So but the guy has a point. If we have faith gravity always works with out understanding why it works why would belief in god be stretch. And people who try to use science to argue ageists god never take note of this. These guy's seen things and understand thing you don't and understand we don't have the answer and taking faith in thing we don't understand , they have a point. if you don't understand then answer me this then...why does gravity work? I know perfectly well who Heisenberg is. His credentials as a physicist are beyond reproach. Unfortunately, credentials in physics or other natural sciences don't carry over into other, non-science fields, like philosophy or theology. When it comes to a topic like the existence of God, Heisenberg has no special authority or qualifications. And we don't have faith that gravity works, we know that gravity works. And that it will continue to work in the future as in the past is not a matter of faith, but a methodological assumption with an overwhelming amount of inductive support (in virtue of it never having failed to hold thus far). It falls short of a mathematical/logical certainty, sure, but there's a rather large gap between a matter of faith and a claim that is very inductively strong but still falls short of complete logical infallibility. The fact that we cannot know most things to a complete logical certainty, even in science, doesn't mean we have license to just believe things without evidence quite generally. I doubt Heisenberg thought that it did, I suspect that you're more reading your own ideas into the quote. My guess would be that he thinks either that his own work in quantum mechanics reveals the fundamentally random and even magical nature of reality in a way that indicates the handiwork of God, or perhaps just offers a glimpse of God's nature, or perhaps the more standard story about science being a descriptive endeavor that leaves the more existentially meaningful questions open to religion. Unfortunately, no way to know either way, as there is no citation for this quote and so no way to look at the context... or even verify if Heisenberg actually said it all.
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Post by R'Shara on Jun 1, 2017 2:46:53 GMT
dude. this is the guy who came up with the concept of dark matter, the thing believed to control gravity that can't be see, touched, scaled, or calculated out side it effect of gravity. The thing Einstein hinted at existing. the thing that we can see no matter what but believes controls all gravity which we still don't understand. Gravity the thing we don't know why it works yet always believes is there. So but the guy has a point. If we have faith gravity always works with out understanding why it works why would belief in god be stretch. And people who try to use science to argue ageists god never take note of this. These guy's seen things and understand thing you don't and understand we don't have the answer and taking faith in thing we don't understand , they have a point. if you don't understand then answer me this then...why does gravity work? I know perfectly well who Heisenberg is. His credentials as a physicist are beyond reproach. Unfortunately, credentials in physics or other natural sciences don't carry over into other, non-science fields, like philosophy or theology. When it comes to a topic like the existence of God, Heisenberg has no special authority or qualifications. And we don't have faith that gravity works, we know that gravity works. And that it will continue to work in the future as in the past is not a matter of faith, but a methodological assumption with an overwhelming amount of inductive support (in virtue of it never having failed to hold thus far). It falls short of a mathematical/logical certainty, sure, but there's a rather large gap between a matter of faith and a claim that is very inductively strong but still falls short of complete logical infallibility. The fact that we cannot know most things to a complete logical certainty, even in science, doesn't mean we have license to just believe things without evidence quite generally. I doubt Heisenberg thought that it did, I suspect that you're more reading your own ideas into the quote. My guess would be that he thinks either that his own work in quantum mechanics reveals the fundamentally random and even magical nature of reality in a way that indicates the handiwork of God, or perhaps just offers a glimpse of God's nature, or perhaps the more standard story about science being a descriptive endeavor that leaves the more existentially meaningful questions open to religion. Unfortunately, no way to know either way, as there is no citation for this quote and so no way to look at the context... or even verify if Heisenberg actually said it all. That's how I always took it.
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Post by thats1evildude on Jun 1, 2017 2:52:28 GMT
Huh? God is a robot? How did you get that? And given that Inquisition has the best and most mature handling of faith and religion, it seems Bioware isn't hating anything. Inquisition demonized the Chantry/Tenplars which is the closest christianity that works has. You could make that argument about Dragon Age 2, but DAI portrays the Templars pretty fairly. I think they come off as more heroic than the rebel mages, personally. Sure, the Red Templars are evil, but many of them were also corrupted against their will.
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Post by dreman999 on Jun 1, 2017 3:09:27 GMT
dude. this is the guy who came up with the concept of dark matter, the thing believed to control gravity that can't be see, touched, scaled, or calculated out side it effect of gravity. The thing Einstein hinted at existing. the thing that we can see no matter what but believes controls all gravity which we still don't understand. Gravity the thing we don't know why it works yet always believes is there. So but the guy has a point. If we have faith gravity always works with out understanding why it works why would belief in god be stretch. And people who try to use science to argue ageists god never take note of this. These guy's seen things and understand thing you don't and understand we don't have the answer and taking faith in thing we don't understand , they have a point. if you don't understand then answer me this then...why does gravity work? I know perfectly well who Heisenberg is. His credentials as a physicist are beyond reproach. Unfortunately, credentials in physics or other natural sciences don't carry over into other, non-science fields, like philosophy or theology. When it comes to a topic like the existence of God, Heisenberg has no special authority or qualifications. And we don't have faith that gravity works, we know that gravity works. And that it will continue to work in the future as in the past is not a matter of faith, but a methodological assumption with an overwhelming amount of inductive support (in virtue of it never having failed to hold thus far). It falls short of a mathematical/logical certainty, sure, but there's a rather large gap between a matter of faith and a claim that is very inductively strong but still falls short of complete logical infallibility. The fact that we cannot know most things to a complete logical certainty, even in science, doesn't mean we have license to just believe things without evidence quite generally. I doubt Heisenberg thought that it did, I suspect that you're more reading your own ideas into the quote. My guess would be that he thinks either that his own work in quantum mechanics reveals the fundamentally random and even magical nature of reality in a way that indicates the handiwork of God, or perhaps just offers a glimpse of God's nature, or perhaps the more standard story about science being a descriptive endeavor that leaves the more existentially meaningful questions open to religion. Unfortunately, no way to know either way, as there is no citation for this quote and so no way to look at the context... or even verify if Heisenberg actually said it all. Of course it's a matter of faith. Would you put your faith is something you don't full understand and that no one else fully understands? The issue is a question of consistency. The thing with gravity we trust it because it show no reason to change it's standard action. But that does not mean it can't one day change it action. Nothing says the laws of physic will not one day change and the gravity will act differently. Heck, it's theories there places in existed that gravity does work differently. Yet we still trust gravity will not suddenly change. That's faith. Ofcouse you can say you can trust it because it shows no signs of change...but that that's the thing, we don't know enough about it to be able to say that. We don't know if there is any elements out side our perspective that can change it. We are 3 dimensional beings and if there is a dimensional of reality out there that can effect our plains gravity which we can't see or even touch, how can we say it would not come in contact with us and effect our gravity that it will change. aka murphy's law. if something outside our perspective of reality can change how our gravity works in our plain then it can one day happen. And here we are saying gravity will not changed.....that is faith. that's his point. We don't know enough to know why things work and if they continue work...yet we have faith that it will do in science. irony is the purest form.
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Post by R'Shara on Jun 1, 2017 3:16:52 GMT
I know perfectly well who Heisenberg is. His credentials as a physicist are beyond reproach. Unfortunately, credentials in physics or other natural sciences don't carry over into other, non-science fields, like philosophy or theology. When it comes to a topic like the existence of God, Heisenberg has no special authority or qualifications. And we don't have faith that gravity works, we know that gravity works. And that it will continue to work in the future as in the past is not a matter of faith, but a methodological assumption with an overwhelming amount of inductive support (in virtue of it never having failed to hold thus far). It falls short of a mathematical/logical certainty, sure, but there's a rather large gap between a matter of faith and a claim that is very inductively strong but still falls short of complete logical infallibility. The fact that we cannot know most things to a complete logical certainty, even in science, doesn't mean we have license to just believe things without evidence quite generally. I doubt Heisenberg thought that it did, I suspect that you're more reading your own ideas into the quote. My guess would be that he thinks either that his own work in quantum mechanics reveals the fundamentally random and even magical nature of reality in a way that indicates the handiwork of God, or perhaps just offers a glimpse of God's nature, or perhaps the more standard story about science being a descriptive endeavor that leaves the more existentially meaningful questions open to religion. Unfortunately, no way to know either way, as there is no citation for this quote and so no way to look at the context... or even verify if Heisenberg actually said it all. Of course it's a matter of faith. Would you put your faith is something you don't full understand and that no one else fully understands? The issue is a question of consistency. The thing with gravity we trust it because it show no reason to change it's standard action. But that does not mean it can't one day change it action. Nothing says the laws of physic will not one day change and the gravity will act differently. Heck, it's theories there places in existed that gravity does work differently. Yet we still trust gravity will not suddenly change. That's faith. Ofcouse you can say you can trust it because it shows no signs of change...but that that's the thing, we don't know enough about it to be able to say that. We don't know if there is any elements out side our perspective that can change it. We are 3 dimensional beings and if there is a dimensional of reality out there that can effect our plains gravity which we can't see or even touch, how can we say it would not come in contact with us and effect our gravity that it will change. aka murphy's law. if something outside our perspective of reality can change how our gravity works in our plain then it can one day happen. And here we are saying gravity will not changed.....that is faith. that's his point. We don't know enough to know why things work and if they continue work...yet we have faith that it will do in science. irony is the purest form. I really don't think that's what he meant. Only my opinion, but it's basically you get so deep in science that it gets to the point where it seems divine. I don't know if you've ever read anything by Carl Sagan, but that was basically what he believed. That science proved the existence of God by its very perfection. Edit: Sorry, that's what he wrote about in some of his books, not necessarily what he believed.
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Post by dreman999 on Jun 1, 2017 3:25:56 GMT
Of course it's a matter of faith. Would you put your faith is something you don't full understand and that no one else fully understands? The issue is a question of consistency. The thing with gravity we trust it because it show no reason to change it's standard action. But that does not mean it can't one day change it action. Nothing says the laws of physic will not one day change and the gravity will act differently. Heck, it's theories there places in existed that gravity does work differently. Yet we still trust gravity will not suddenly change. That's faith. Ofcouse you can say you can trust it because it shows no signs of change...but that that's the thing, we don't know enough about it to be able to say that. We don't know if there is any elements out side our perspective that can change it. We are 3 dimensional beings and if there is a dimensional of reality out there that can effect our plains gravity which we can't see or even touch, how can we say it would not come in contact with us and effect our gravity that it will change. aka murphy's law. if something outside our perspective of reality can change how our gravity works in our plain then it can one day happen. And here we are saying gravity will not changed.....that is faith. that's his point. We don't know enough to know why things work and if they continue work...yet we have faith that it will do in science. irony is the purest form. I really don't think that's what he meant. Only my opinion, but it's basically you get so deep in science that it gets to the point where it seems divine. I don't know if you've ever read anything by Carl Sagan, but that was basically what he believed. That science proved the existence of God by its very perfection. that's still the same thing. You come to a point you just don't have the answers for everything and find that things just work. It then takes years even life times to get the answers. that fact that we put trust in something we don't understand why it work with no way to tell if it will change one day or not is a matter of faith. We believe gravity will always work even if there maybe a chance one day it may change from how it works now. that is the defintion of faith to the letter faith.http://www.dictionary.com/browse/faith confidence or trust in a person or thingthe fact that we don't question that gravity will work is the definition of faith.
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Post by alanc9 on Jun 1, 2017 3:26:01 GMT
And we don't have faith that gravity works, we know that gravity works. And that it will continue to work in the future as in the past is not a matter of faith, but a methodological assumption with an overwhelming amount of inductive support (in virtue of it never having failed to hold thus far). It falls short of a mathematical/logical certainty, sure, but there's a rather large gap between a matter of faith and a claim that is very inductively strong but still falls short of complete logical infallibility. Of course it's a matter of faith. Would you put your faith is something you don't full understand and that no one else fully understands? The issue is a question of consistency. The thing with gravity we trust it because it show no reason to change it's standard action. But that does not mean it can't one day change it action. Nothing says the laws of physic will not one day change and the gravity will act differently. Heck, it's theories there places in existed that gravity does work differently. Yet we still trust gravity will not suddenly change. That's faith. Ofcouse you can say you can trust it because it shows no signs of change...but that that's the thing, we don't know enough about it to be able to say that. We don't know if there is any elements out side our perspective that can change it. We are 3 dimensional beings and if there is a dimensional of reality out there that can effect our plains gravity which we can't see or even touch, how can we say it would not come in contact with us and effect our gravity that it will change. aka murphy's law. if something outside our perspective of reality can change how our gravity works in our plain then it can one day happen. And here we are saying gravity will not changed.....that is faith. that's his point. We don't know enough to know why things work and if they continue work...yet we have faith that it will do in science. irony is the purest form. What's the difference between "faith" and "a methodological assumption with an overwhelming amount of inductive support," exactly? Is there a substantive dispute here, or is this just rhetoric? I suppose there's a nonzero probability that gravity will suddenly stop working the way it always has, but the probability of that is so low that it's not worth my time to think about. Is that "faith"? I thought faith was a little more robust than that.
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Post by R'Shara on Jun 1, 2017 3:28:39 GMT
[Carl Sagan] rejected the label of “atheist” because he was open to the possibility that science would perhaps one day find compelling evidence to prove God. Nevertheless, he thought that the likelihood of that happening was very small. Instead, Sagan talked about “spirituality“ as something that happens within the realm of material world, when humans encounter nature and are filled with awe.
In his book, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark, Sagan writes:
“Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality. When we recognize our place in an immensity of light years and in the passage of ages, when we grasp the intricacy, beauty and subtlety of life, then that soaring feeling, that sense of elation and humility combined, is surely spiritual.”
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Post by q5tyhj on Jun 1, 2017 3:29:19 GMT
I know perfectly well who Heisenberg is. His credentials as a physicist are beyond reproach. Unfortunately, credentials in physics or other natural sciences don't carry over into other, non-science fields, like philosophy or theology. When it comes to a topic like the existence of God, Heisenberg has no special authority or qualifications. And we don't have faith that gravity works, we know that gravity works. And that it will continue to work in the future as in the past is not a matter of faith, but a methodological assumption with an overwhelming amount of inductive support (in virtue of it never having failed to hold thus far). It falls short of a mathematical/logical certainty, sure, but there's a rather large gap between a matter of faith and a claim that is very inductively strong but still falls short of complete logical infallibility. The fact that we cannot know most things to a complete logical certainty, even in science, doesn't mean we have license to just believe things without evidence quite generally. I doubt Heisenberg thought that it did, I suspect that you're more reading your own ideas into the quote. My guess would be that he thinks either that his own work in quantum mechanics reveals the fundamentally random and even magical nature of reality in a way that indicates the handiwork of God, or perhaps just offers a glimpse of God's nature, or perhaps the more standard story about science being a descriptive endeavor that leaves the more existentially meaningful questions open to religion. Unfortunately, no way to know either way, as there is no citation for this quote and so no way to look at the context... or even verify if Heisenberg actually said it all. Of course it's a matter of faith. Would you put your faith is something you don't full understand and that no one else fully understands? The issue is a question of consistency. The thing with gravity we trust it because it show no reason to change it's standard action. But that does not mean it can't one day change it action. Nothing says the laws of physic will not one day change and the gravity will act differently. Heck, it's theories there places in existed that gravity does work differently. Yet we still trust gravity will not suddenly change. That's faith. Ofcouse you can say you can trust it because it shows no signs of change...but that that's the thing, we don't know enough about it to be able to say that. We don't know if there is any elements out side our perspective that can change it. We are 3 dimensional beings and if there is a dimensional of reality out there that can effect our plains gravity which we can't see or even touch, how can we say it would not come in contact with us and effect our gravity that it will change. aka murphy's law. if something outside our perspective of reality can change how our gravity works in our plain then it can one day happen. And here we are saying gravity will not changed.....that is faith. that's his point. We don't know enough to know why things work and if they continue work...yet we have faith that it will do in science. irony is the purest form. This is the same all-or-nothing fallacy from your last post; its not an either/or between a matter of faith on on hand and something that is 100% logically certain on the other. There's a lot of middle ground in between, like the majority of science and our everyday beliefs/knowledge, which are inductive claims for which we possess evidence but not logically conclusive proof. Its not logically certain that the sun will rise tomorrow, for instance- its logically possible that it fails to rise, in a way that it is not logically possible that, say, 2+2 fails to equal 5 , or some X to fail to be self-identical- but the fact that it has risen every day so far is very strong inductive evidence that it will rise tomorrow. Gravity is the same. The fact that it has continued to hold, in the future as in the past, for as long as we've been keeping track, provides very strong inductive evidence that it will continue to do so. Is this logical proof, that precludes it ever failing to work? No, its still possible that it will stop working, just like its possible the sun doesn't rise tomorrow... But the evidence suggests it probably wont. But faith is belief without evidence, and so since we have evidence, it cannot be faith.
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