| </span><blockquote><span class="smallfont">Quote:</span><hr size="1" />Originally Posted by (PeterAngelo,)
Some minds are physically, chemically, genetically, and forever unable to absorb information and process it in any meaningful way.
IQ tests measure intelligence for a reason. Not all are created equal - intellectually.
Those "lesser" minds will never be able to believe that the laws of physics are the only laws in the universe that matter.
It is too frightening to believe that we (individually) will cease to exist forever.
The argument over creationism v. evolution is an argument between the smart and the dumb. It cannot be won.
The percentage of dumb people is constant. The support they give to state authority, based on fake gods (render to Caesar and all that nonesense), insures a control mechanism for the "sheep" (as the church likes to call the dumb).
There is good business in keeping the argument going, both for fund raising and deliberate divisiveness. It is never ending, and it is boring.
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And you are mixing apples and oranges. The 'laws' physics, actually the theories of physics, are science's best job to date at explaining the universe. Are there other laws that matter? That's a meaningless question unless the term 'laws' is defined. The so-called laws of physics are merely statements of what are, so far as we know, invarying relationships. Newton's laws were great laws that seemed certainly true -- until Einstein showed how they were wrong. Science, including phsyics, is about learning, not about certainty.
As to afterlife, gods, supernatural, and so on -- no one knows. Science doesn't know, I don't know, you don't know, the pope doesn't know. But most importantly, such things have nothing to do with science, at least not science as we know it now. As Eugenie Scott says, science can say nothing about God until it develops a theometer. |