I did not mean to imply we shouldn't ask origin questions. What I meant was, contemporary science IMO has degenerated into a race to uncover the origin of things. New ideas are only welcome if they clarify the origin of this or that.
Harry Keith Nagel wrote: > > I disagree with Harry that we shouldn't ask origin questions, although his > general point ( the origin of the universe itself ) may prove to be > an impossible question to answer. In the case of life on Earth, that > seems to be a very reasonable question to answer, and we're making > some good new progress with that in our current space exploration.
