But scientists don't hold true to their own religion. A lot of people suggest that String Theory is an attempt to re-impose order. I personally think the next big innovations in physics and cosmology will be come from the probabilistic, quantum side and that the closer we get to a Theory of Everything, the more that theory will look like Quantum Mechanics.
boddi
On 12/24/05, Chris Doss <lookoverhere1 at yahoo.com> wrote:
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>
> --- boddi satva <lbo.boddi at gmail.com> wrote:
> I would characterize it as a battle between science -
> which asserts a
> radical skepticism as the first precept - and religion
> - which holds
> hierarchical causality as the first precept.
>
>
> boddi
> ---
>
> The conflict between a view of the world that sees
> order as arising immanently within the world and one
> that sees it as being imposed upon the world from
> outside goes back AT LEAST to Aristotle, on the one
> hand, and Plato, on the other. It predates "science"
> in the modern sense of the term by some time. And
> religion does not necessarily hold hierarchical
> causality as the first precept. How is the Big Bang
> not an instance of hierarchical causality anyway?
>
> I remember at some point in Dragons of Eden Carl Sagan
> expressing embarrassment at the fact that both the Big
> Bang and Steady-State models of the universe were
> quite similar to basic cosmological myths. ;)
>
> Nu, zayats, pogodi!
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