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Re:Physicists Debate Hawking’s Idea That the Universe Had No... by onion2k on Thursday June 06, 2019 @12:38PM (#20116208)
isn't that just an elaborate way to say 'give up'?

Accepting that we don't understand something is a first and very necessary step to even realising there's something to understand. Believing that we have the answer (eg "God made the universe!") is exactly what shuts down scientific inquiry and makes people 'give up'. I'm saying literally the opposite of that - we have to realise there's something to out there to learn in order to try and learn it.

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Re:Physicists Debate Hawking’s Idea That the Universe Had No... by jorangreef on Thursday June 06, 2019 @03:47PM (#20118341)
If we accept your logic, then believing gravity to be the answer to "why things fall" would shut down scientific inquiry?

On the contrary, it was belief in the creator that opened up scientific inquiry in the minds of Johannes Kepler etc.

That the universe was not chaotic, but created by a personal being, led them to think there must be some order to it that could be studied.

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