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Originally posted by Vaskez:
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Originally posted by esquire:
Don't have to worry about supernatural forces plotting against me, or any other mystical powers operating beyond my control. Nope!
Its just me vs. entropy, wouldn't have it any other way. 
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Ah the good old ostrich head in the sand tactic. Hide and hope it will go away. What IS Supernatural. It is only something that humans either cannot yet understand and cannot explain with current science so it is said to be "supernatural" or it is something that we will never understand. It's slightly naive to believe that we can/will understand everything in the universe. It's also arrogant. The only logical explanation is that something "supernatural" governed the creation of nature. Who do you think created entropy? And who created the laws of science that we are discovering? The atoms just popped into existance one day and started off the process that resulted in gasses compressing into planets and stars and the molecules rearranging to form life which then evolved into intelligent beings capable of learning? I find it an almost infinite stretch of the imagination. There must be some eternal intelligent force out there, the only logical explanation IMO. [/QUOTE]Well I just don't see the need to make assumptions about anything. If I don't understand something, well thats fine. However I don't automattically assume that some divine force must be at work just because I may not understand what is happening. I like how Arthur C. Clark puts it,
"When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong."
Clarke's second law states that:
"The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible."
Clarke's third law states that:
"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."
Thus, it isn't arrogent at all to think we can understand everything in the universe. It will just take a really really really long time
If people thought that some things were not understandable, well we wouldn't have nifty things like electricity, computers, quantum mechanics ect...
[ 09-24-2003, 02:07 PM: Message edited by: esquire ]