29th June 2004, 10:19 AM
As I've said a million times. We know some things now. All of it points towards the fact that mechanical models explain things and as we learn more about the universe we are able to expand them and find new laws. This will continue. We will continue to learn more about how the universe developed. Laws and facts will be found (not all of this will happen in our lifetimes or anything, I'm talking long term...) that explain just about everything in the physical universe, I am sure. As I've said many times before, saying "we don't know and aren't able to find out right now so that means that we can't know and it is not explainable by a scientific model" is one of the most idiotic things anyone could say. Oh, go ahead and say you believe in God, but trying to even imply what you are? It's foolish and very, very wrong. I'll just have to repeat again that not being able to know now is NOT proof that we can't know or scientific models will never fit! I'd say quite the opposite -- that the fact that as we do learn more about things we always find ways to explain physics with rules strongly hints towards the idea that as we learn even more that will definitely continue.