04-28-2006, 06:18 PM
Science is indeed a lovely thing, but in truth it seems that the more we learn, the more we realize we don't know. Often an answer creates several more questions, which is both the fascination and the curse of science I think. Cell biology is my particular area and although I understand in great detail many of the inner workings of a living cell, whenever I think of all that has to work in harmony and then to think how much more must work to keep say an organ system working and then an entire organism- it just blows me away really :lol: Throw in physics, chemistry, psychology and all the other 'ologies'... this universe is mind-bogglingly complex- unBELIEVEABLY complex... so as much as I might think that things like astrology are ridiculous on one hand, on the other I can't help but reserve judgement because there is so very much we just don't know.
It's intriguing how the characteristics of the signs can actually be somewhat accurate- I used to be a fairly typical Virgo (although I'm much better now :lol: ), as is my little sister, 12 years younger. Do I consider that the stars, planets and moon actually have an influence on someone's personality, etc.? Not really- by known facts, there's just no way to explain how they could, and yet who knows? There are certainly forces as yet undiscovered by science, what if one of those is at work? Or maybe it's something else altogether- maybe it's actually the time of year and all the environmental influences that cause the personality traits and the stars are just contemporaneous observations rather than being actually involved? It's far more likely to be the influence of the microconditions in utero that affect development (if that's what creates the personality traits described by astrology)- environment affects mom, mom affects developing baby.
To further complicate things, it's my understanding that insanely serious mathematicians have worked-out that there should be at least 11 dimensions- 7 more than the 4 we're consciously aware of, so who knows what nature these others have or what's in them? I haven't the foggiest idea how they figured this out (I'm a mess when it comes to basic calculus), but they're damn smart people, so I'll take their word for it :lol: Science has this lovely self-checking apparatus called 'peer-review'- all the data is made available so that anyone who cares to can check a person's work and see if the conclusions are indeed valid. This makes me far more secure in taking scientific facts 'on faith' than those from most other sources where nothing can be checked.
The long and short of it is that there's just a whole lot of weird stuff in the universe that can be observed but not explained (yet), so I try to keep an open mind. Admitting ignorance is far better than being shown to be wrong
Matt
It's intriguing how the characteristics of the signs can actually be somewhat accurate- I used to be a fairly typical Virgo (although I'm much better now :lol: ), as is my little sister, 12 years younger. Do I consider that the stars, planets and moon actually have an influence on someone's personality, etc.? Not really- by known facts, there's just no way to explain how they could, and yet who knows? There are certainly forces as yet undiscovered by science, what if one of those is at work? Or maybe it's something else altogether- maybe it's actually the time of year and all the environmental influences that cause the personality traits and the stars are just contemporaneous observations rather than being actually involved? It's far more likely to be the influence of the microconditions in utero that affect development (if that's what creates the personality traits described by astrology)- environment affects mom, mom affects developing baby.
To further complicate things, it's my understanding that insanely serious mathematicians have worked-out that there should be at least 11 dimensions- 7 more than the 4 we're consciously aware of, so who knows what nature these others have or what's in them? I haven't the foggiest idea how they figured this out (I'm a mess when it comes to basic calculus), but they're damn smart people, so I'll take their word for it :lol: Science has this lovely self-checking apparatus called 'peer-review'- all the data is made available so that anyone who cares to can check a person's work and see if the conclusions are indeed valid. This makes me far more secure in taking scientific facts 'on faith' than those from most other sources where nothing can be checked.
The long and short of it is that there's just a whole lot of weird stuff in the universe that can be observed but not explained (yet), so I try to keep an open mind. Admitting ignorance is far better than being shown to be wrong
Matt
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