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Re:U.S. Capitol Locked Down Amid Escalating Protests by toyg on Wednesday January 06, 2021 @06:09PM (#25664001)
It’s not as unreasonable as you make it sound. Some of the most devout Christians I know are scientists, and extremely logical people too. Precisely because they know how the sausage of Official Science is made, and are naturally inquisitive people, they are not shy to question our supposedly-scientific understanding of the universe (i.e. our best guesses at how it all started) and eventually resolve that doubt with (what they think is) an equally-unprovable act of faith. (Note: this is not about creationism, we’re talking Big Bang etc).

I don’t disagree that human communication is often an oxymoron, simply because of how bodies work. Until we get perfect brain-to-brain data transfer, we’ll always have to go through this messy mismatch between my perceptions and your perceptions.

Re:U.S. Capitol Locked Down Amid Escalating Protests by 8note on Wednesday January 06, 2021 @07:20PM (#25664951)
Careful scientists tend to say "this is the first time where we know what's happening before this we're unclear"

And "this is where our model breaks down, maybe {big bang singularity, big bounce, etc} happened before it"

The big Bang (fast inflationary persiod in the early universe) is not one of those things? To my knowledge its well measured?