scott wrote:sparky wrote:The same applies to thinking about the Uncertainty Principle, wave/particle duality, Bell's Theorem, or any other concept that works on a complete different scale - our minds are such that they have great difficulty processing these ideas. They've never had to. Our idea of common sense on such subjects is flawed, or at least incomplete.
Ironically, this is EXACTLY the answer that religious folk will give if you say "There is so much contradictory stuff in the bible. It doesn't make sense". EXACT same answer.
True scott, but the contradictory stuff in the Bible cannot be proved, making the contradictions pull the stories apart without the intervention of the supernatural. With physics, someone smarter than me can sit me down, and given time (a lot of time), can prove to me that these theories fly.
I suppose what I'm saying is that with a religious text you are relying on faith that a story is true, whereas with scientific theories you critically interrogate mathematical steps for flaws.
Or: the common sense that these theories stymy stems from a very particular perspective of the world. With some effort we can demonstrate that this perspective is a limited one (e.g. our eyes only sense a very narrow range of frequencies, we perceive time in human life spans, etc). With religion, we are talking about pulling apart stories which ultimately can ignore rational inspection, because there's the get-out clause of the supernatural, or the not understandable. We can understand this science if we're lucky enough to be smart enough. It's knowable.
Are you guys working by the way? I'm tired and having to review a bloody audit file and am losing all will to either move from my seat or finish the job in hand. Hence, I'm back here. Whinge.
