On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 6:41 PM, Gruss Gott <[email protected]> wrote:
> > A modern equivalent would be dark matter theory. This substance is not > tested, but inferred or postulated, based on other testable phenomena. Dark > matter itself has never been been quantified as other than a place holder > thus dark matter is not yet a fact just like phlogiston wasnt. > And because of dark matter and dark energy, we simply can't completely rule out the existence of what religion views as the spiritual world. We infer that something is there because it exerts force on normal matter and energy, but we can't directly see it. Why not? Our perspective is inadequate to the task. Think of Plato's cave. We don't see dark matter, we just see it's reflection in our reality. And thus we have equations with an unknown variable, which I will simplify as: (whole lots of complicated stuff we can detect and understand) * x = Our universe (hooray!) So what is x? Got me. Religion gives an answer that fits, and people like that. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:342905 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
