Quote Originally Posted by Rockie Cantais View Post
I know and around and around we go.

The bottom line is this, none of know for sure what is out there now do we? We make these great assumptions and we can make some really great calculations but we still don't know. Why I say as long as some one has a reasonable theory have at it. That's right most are taught just one. BIG BANG! What if there was no big bang but a continuous cycle that the Universe goes through. Creationism? Why not we are just a tiny micro speck anyway in the universe. Intelligent design? again why not? O" that's right we humans are the finest evolved beings in the universe aren't we? Well, we are in our own Solar system and in our own minds.
A good scientist will show humility and accept that he will reach a point where he will raise his hands apologetically and says that he doesn't know.

However, before he reaches that point, there will be plenty of things that he will know.

I don't have a problem with religion trying to fill the gap about what we don't know, but I do have a problem when religion delves into the field of what we do know and try to tell scientists how to do their job.

Furthermore, there is a humble approach to the unknown and then there is the "the universe was created in our image and we must be the center of it" approach to the unknown.

I mean, I could believe that that giant spaghetti monster created the universe and that when we die, he will take us to him and feed us spaghetti for all eternity and we will forevermore be united in the glorious feast (our spiritual stomach will also have infinite capacity so that we can eat spaghetti indefinitely without any discomfort).

Oh, and those who don't like spaghetti will go to the abyss where they will eat dust for all eternity.

Rationally, how likely is that hypothesis compared to the infinity of hypotheses that are out there?

Isn't it rather likely that I just created that reality for myself to try to rationalize what I don't comprehend with concepts that are inherently familiar and reassuring to my intellect?