Barnaby W. Füi
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- Aug 14, 2001
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The way I see it:
Humans probably understand a ridiculously small slice of what really exists. It's IMO completely absurd to even begin to assume that we might "know" where things came from and how we all got here. Yes there's evolution and all of that, but I'm not talking about humanity, I'm talking about the entire universe and whatever is beyond it.
As for science explaining it, I think that science only explains what we already know, and I think that we probably know very little. As for religion, I think it is a human construct and irrelevant when it comes to explaining anything other than our own minds (since I believe it is a product of them).
Think about scale. We know about things as small as atoms and sub-atomic particles (I don't know much about this so I can't elaborate a whole lot). The largest thing we know about is the universe. Look at the ridiculous difference in size between those. If things can be that small and that big, what makes us think they can't be 10 times bigger? A billion times bigger? A billion times smaller? etc. And then there's all the stuff about different dimensions, quantum physics, and other crap I don't know much about.
Also, I wonder about the role of infinity. I mean, if things don't go on for an infinite distance (even beyond our universe), then how exactly do they stop? If you went to the "border", what would be on the other side? Nothing? What's nothing? I can't even comprehend that. But even if it did go on infinitely, we can't really comprehend that either. Or maybe it's neither: maybe you go far enough one way and you end up on the other side, just like Columbus did.
I don't know, I've always thought a lot about this type of stuff, but obviously no one can really come to a conclusion about it all, which sucks. Very frustrating.
Humans probably understand a ridiculously small slice of what really exists. It's IMO completely absurd to even begin to assume that we might "know" where things came from and how we all got here. Yes there's evolution and all of that, but I'm not talking about humanity, I'm talking about the entire universe and whatever is beyond it.
As for science explaining it, I think that science only explains what we already know, and I think that we probably know very little. As for religion, I think it is a human construct and irrelevant when it comes to explaining anything other than our own minds (since I believe it is a product of them).
Think about scale. We know about things as small as atoms and sub-atomic particles (I don't know much about this so I can't elaborate a whole lot). The largest thing we know about is the universe. Look at the ridiculous difference in size between those. If things can be that small and that big, what makes us think they can't be 10 times bigger? A billion times bigger? A billion times smaller? etc. And then there's all the stuff about different dimensions, quantum physics, and other crap I don't know much about.
Also, I wonder about the role of infinity. I mean, if things don't go on for an infinite distance (even beyond our universe), then how exactly do they stop? If you went to the "border", what would be on the other side? Nothing? What's nothing? I can't even comprehend that. But even if it did go on infinitely, we can't really comprehend that either. Or maybe it's neither: maybe you go far enough one way and you end up on the other side, just like Columbus did.
I don't know, I've always thought a lot about this type of stuff, but obviously no one can really come to a conclusion about it all, which sucks. Very frustrating.