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MineralMan

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28. Yes, I've read it.

Tue Apr 9, 2019, 12:41 PM

Apr 2019

For me, once I understood that deities and the supernatural were inventions of the mind, I stopped worrying about them. In my opinion, there are no "unknowable" things. There are things I don't know. There are things nobody knows, but they are not necessarily unknowable. We just don't know them yet.

Typically, those things are something we cannot investigate, really, so some make up stories about them. For me, not knowing is not a troublesome thing. There are more known things that I still have not explored thoroughly. I don't have time for things that are not possible to explore, frankly. Imaginary things are sometimes interesting, but only as entertainment for me.

Religious belief appears to be fading, in terms of the numbers of people who rely on it. We know more about real things over time, and that seems to coincide with less reliance on religious beliefs. Or so it seems to me.

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The Modern Evolution of Science and Static State of Religion [View all] MineralMan Apr 2019 OP

Here Is an Animated Film - Showing Actual Individual Atoms Being Moved Around MineralMan Apr 2019 #1

Wow. Watched the clip. Amazing. Thanks for sharing. NT SWBTATTReg Apr 2019 #3

That's a number of years old now. MineralMan Apr 2019 #5

Thanks! nt tblue37 Apr 2019 #24

Neat. I look forward to your best seller one day...take care, nt. SWBTATTReg Apr 2019 #2

Not a book I'm writing. One I'm looking forward to reading. MineralMan Apr 2019 #4

Ha ha heh...and a square has 5 sides!! nt SWBTATTReg Apr 2019 #6

Some day science will catch up on the giant fish thing, and marylandblue Apr 2019 #8

It already has at Disneyland, as you can see: MineralMan Apr 2019 #25

I was thinking more of a bioengineered whale with no stomach acid marylandblue Apr 2019 #26

What a great idea. I'd pay to visit that. MineralMan Apr 2019 #29

Theoretical entity? Galileo126 Apr 2019 #7

Great story! MineralMan Apr 2019 #9

Sure but you still can't edhopper Apr 2019 #10

True enough. MineralMan Apr 2019 #14

My understanding of my faith continues to develop. guillaumeb Apr 2019 #11

Christianity, for most Christians, has not Voltaire2 Apr 2019 #12

That's nice... MineralMan Apr 2019 #13

Right Lordquinton Apr 2019 #17

That's neat. trotsky Apr 2019 #18

"My understanding of my faith continues to develop" Act_of_Reparation Apr 2019 #19

My understanding of your tactics is fully developed. eom guillaumeb Apr 2019 #20

Then why do you keep losing these arguments? Act_of_Reparation Apr 2019 #21

... trotsky Apr 2019 #23

In your mind? guillaumeb Apr 2019 #33

You think you're performing well here? Act_of_Reparation Apr 2019 #34

Do you think that your own motives are not understood? guillaumeb Apr 2019 #35

I know you think they are. Act_of_Reparation Apr 2019 #36

Why don't you tell us what you think that poster's motives are? MineralMan Apr 2019 #37

But your understanding is not that. MineralMan Apr 2019 #22

picture of the Atom edhopper Apr 2019 #15

Small, but mighty! MineralMan Apr 2019 #16

Whole book about this zipplewrath Apr 2019 #27

Yes, I've read it. MineralMan Apr 2019 #28

Feynman talked about the unknowable zipplewrath Apr 2019 #30

I don't wonder what happens after I die. MineralMan Apr 2019 #31

Science issued a fact-based guess; that turned out to be true Bretton Garcia Apr 2019 #32