Rumours swell over new kind of gravitational-wave sighting

Re:Rumours swell over new kind of gravitational-wave sighting by e12e on Sunday August 27, 2017 @12:31PM (#15111428)

Another way to look at it, is a requirement to accept uncertainty - the existence of unknowns - or indeed "unknowables".

To each their own - but I don't see "There are some things we cannot describe in our system of knowledge" as a particularly strong proof for the existence of God.

Perhaps some of us have been imbued with an unhealthy and naive lust for certainty, in part by an education system that put an emphasis on right and wrong answers rather than on the quest for better questions?

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Re:Rumours swell over new kind of gravitational-wave sighting by TimTheTinker on Monday August 28, 2017 @12:13AM (#15114369)

There's a lot of difference between "there are some things we cannot know" and "all systems of belief rest on axioms that must be taken on faith".

To me, the latter is an encouragement to rationally evaluate existing belief systems against each other, since it reduces all of them to a level playing field. From there, one can apply a simple twofold truth test to each system: correspondence to reality and internal consistency.

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