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In reply to the discussion: Neil deGrasse Tyson destroys argument for intelligent design [View all]hifiguy
(33,688 posts)- call it from Copernicus, Kepler and Galileo on - have explained almost incomprehensibly large parts of how nature and the universe work, though there is still far more to learn than we already know.
And remember, we humans are pretty new at this science thing, thanks to chistianity and the ensuing Dark Ages, when science itself was considered to be "diabolic." Three hundred years ago we were so unabashedly ignorant that the "logical" response to an outbreak of disease was burning the "witches" that "caused" it.
We have done rather well. But we are still a few more Einsteins or Newtons away from discovering all the secrets of the universe, and Einsteins and Newtons don't come along all that often. And we have to steer away from the navel-gazing science-fiction string theoreticians who have not in 20+ yeare proposed even ONE experiment to test their mathematically beautiful but utterly unscientific speculations.
Read Lee Smolin's books. Understandable, refreshing and quite brilliant.