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• zalgotext@sh.itjust.works ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Do you think the astronomers/cosmologists/astrophysicists piecing together the origins of the universe are doing so without evidence?

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  • Tier1BuildABear@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    No, I just think we’re missing a lot. The evidence we can gather is from a very teeny tiny section of the “universe-spanning crime scene.” It reminds me of The Expanse, they find something they don’t understand and they compare it to monkeys playing with a microwave:

    “Push a button, a light comes on inside, so it’s a light. Push a different button and stick your hand inside, it burns you, so it’s a weapon. Learn to open and close the door, it’s a place to hide things. Never grasping what it actually did, and maybe not even having the framework necessary to figure it out. No monkey ever reheated a frozen burrito.”

    Like yeah, astronomers/cosmologists/astrophysicists are smart compared to the average human, but the average human is smart compared to a chimp. Are we even capable of putting the pieces together that we’re getting?

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    • zalgotext@sh.itjust.works ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Are we even capable of putting the pieces together that we’re getting?

      Yes, absolutely, and more progress is made as more new evidence is found. The thing is, until that happens, scientists are perfectly comfortable with the gaps, and saying “I don’t know”, instead of filling those gaps with an evil sky wizard.

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      • Tier1BuildABear@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        And yet we still have museums filled with dinosaurs without feathers, and there are people that preach the big bang theory as fact. Shit, we still have people thinking the earth is flat. So, some scientists might be OK saying they don’t know, but humanity as a whole will take any idea, theory or not, and run with it. So, sorry, but yeah, some scientists are filling the gaps with evil sky wizards ;)

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