Tier1BuildABear
@Tier1BuildABear@lemmy.world
I’m pretty adorable, but I’ve seen some shit.
- Comment on She strongly disagrees 2 weeks ago:
Mate, religious people didn’t fill the museums with dinosaurs without feathers. Scientists gather evidence… then fill the gaps. Flat earth, earth is the center, quantum theory, quasi-crystals, the list goes on and on, if anything is disingenuous it’s saying that scientists DON’T fill the gaps for the things we don’t know. THAT’S ALL WE’VE EVER DONE. Religious or not, no evidence, some evidence, or “a lot” relative to our tiny corner of space, humanity, historically, fills the gaps so we can pretend to understand things we’ve only just recently become capable of even observing
- Comment on She strongly disagrees 2 weeks ago:
Except it’s COMPLETELY relevant, because ALL of the evidence you’re talking about is what humanity has gathered throughout our tiny blip of existence. It doesn’t matter what we should have done, if your whole point is “don’t fill the gaps with stuff we don’t know,” using scientists etc. as an example, when, historically, we’ve done nothing BUT “fill the gaps,” and incorrectly at that.
Like yes, there’s evidence to support the theories, but that does not change the HISTORICAL FACT that our theories are CONSTANTLY CHANGING based on new evidence that we now have to “slot in” and make work with the current evidence… Until we find more evidence and start all over. We’re just… way too overconfident with our “facts” when we literally don’t know shit. Trying to pretend we understand, like a monkey thinking a microwave is a flashlight
- Comment on She strongly disagrees 2 weeks ago:
I completely agree. Unfortunately, we don’t do that. We fill the gaps. That’s what we did with the dinosaurs, with everything. Where we don’t have proof, we have theories. They are not fact. But presented as such by way too many people. I’m simply comparing the two and saying how ridiculous it is to say ANYTHING is “VERY unlikely” or “very likely” when all we really have is theory. It’s just… Incredibly ignorant with the little amount of info we have. So to go one way and fill the gaps while claiming we don’t, but go the other and guffaw because there isn’t evidence, is hilarious.
- Comment on She strongly disagrees 2 weeks ago:
👍
- Comment on Honestly same 2 weeks ago:
For me it’s both
- Comment on She strongly disagrees 2 weeks 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 ;)
- Comment on She strongly disagrees 2 weeks ago:
You’re getting really hung up on this idea of “god” when that’s not what I’m really talking about lol
Maybe some people find the big bang theory far-fetched, maybe in 300 years we’ll have a COMPLETELY DIFFERENT origin story for our universe, ALSO free of any god or creation theory, but just different thanks to our understanding of it changing.
“argumentum ad ignorantiam” - I’m not claiming anything, just trying to keep your mind open by playing devil’s advocate. There’s a HUGE difference between saying “this is real because we can’t prove it isn’t,” and “there’s a small possibility this is real, but we can’t prove it.” Like, saying something DOESN’T exist simply because you HAVEN’T seen proof of it is actually, literally argumentum ad ignorantiam, and you’re getting dangerously close to that.
Like yes, the discussion started because you don’t believe in a god because you haven’t seen evidence of it. I’m just trying to point out the argumentum ad ignorantiam in that. Not trying to get you to believe in god, just to see that there’s maybe things we don’t understand, that we aren’t capable of disproving, and possibly will simply never know in our lifetime
- Comment on She strongly disagrees 2 weeks 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?
- Comment on She strongly disagrees 2 weeks ago:
Funnily enough I haven’t actually heard of that saying XD I only kept thinking about Xeno Lovegood from Harry Potter and how NOT to sound like him lmao. He thought something existed, Hermione didn’t, so he says “prove that it does not.”
But I see where you’re coming from, I just don’t think the idea is that far-fetched or unlikely. I’m not even talking specifically about being a theist, but also even just the idea that we live in a simulation, like our whole universe was “created” as an experiment, or a zoo for aliens much larger than our universe, or shit like that. But I could see the argument for “life” being a “miracle” the same way I can see it as slightly more advanced than a plant, just buttons being pushed and reactions happening. I just think there’s SO much we haven’t seen and so much we don’t know that it’s hard to discount anything. Like we keep having to rewrite what we think the laws of physics are as our understanding of them changes. I know I’m not gonna change your mind, so agree to disagree, but it is fun to think about
- Comment on She strongly disagrees 2 weeks ago:
“Highly unlikely to be true” based on our teeny tiny frame of reference is wild. Remember when it was crazy to believe dinosaurs had feathers? There was no evidence of it… Until there was. And that’s just staying local to the planet.
Also, the size of the universe and how much we’re able to observe DOES matter. Using my plate metaphor again, imagine a graphic on the plate. The chip you got is white. There would never be any evidence of other colors, or of the picture as a whole, until you start looking for and seeing other pieces.
I do completely agree that as long as humanity has found no evidence there’s no reason to humor the idea. But millennia of experience in our corner of space is a fart in the wind in the grand scheme of things, and lack of evidence in an isolated system should not be taken as proof to the contrary. That’s all I was saying.
A human saying they haven’t seen something in the universe and using that to say said thing is unlikely is the same thing as a goldfish in a bowl saying an octopus is unlikely
- Comment on She strongly disagrees 2 weeks ago:
I agree, just like it’d be insane to claim we know anything else about our creation without evidence
- Comment on She strongly disagrees 2 weeks ago:
Oh no I love a good discussion about this stuff! Also wasn’t trying to sow discourse so hopefully that’s not how it came across. I definitely agree, but the person I was replying too specifically referred to creation as one big crime scene across the universe and how we’ve investigated it, when we most certainly haven’t. But yes, limiting our viewpoint to here on earth, I could definitely see people going either direction with it
- Comment on She strongly disagrees 2 weeks ago:
Completely agree. We’re so confident sometimes about things we know literally nothing about
- Comment on She strongly disagrees 2 weeks ago:
Vast? Not disagreeing by any means but you’re kidding yourself if you think humanity has “thoroughly and desperately scanned” even a fraction of a fraction of only THE MILKY WAY. We haven’t even set foot on another planet in OUR OWN SOLAR SYSTEM. Even if we were to assume all the species on earth were looking
We are SO helplessly ignorant when it comes to the rest of the universe. We’re still grasping at straws and don’t know how half the stuff works or even where any of it is really located.
Will we ever find God? I don’t know, but we’re sure as shit nowhere near understanding anything enough to say a god DIDN’T do it.
But it’s like dropping a plate from the top of the empire state building. You’re a block away and a little chip hits you. You don’t know where it came from or why. You don’t know the larger whole it used to make up. You and your family could spend generations examining that one little chip and learn EVERYTHING about it while still knowing nothing about it’s origin or original shape.
Either way, we’ve got a lot to learn, which excites me
- Comment on When it hits you.... 2 weeks ago:
Have you seen the Kaufman documentary? IMO Carey is certifiably insane, he spat on someone and refused to apologize because it wasn’t him, it was Andy. He literally thought he was possessed, or at least acted like that’s what he thought
- Comment on When it hits you.... 2 weeks ago:
That sounds kinda brain damaged to me
- Comment on Thanks satan 2 months ago:
Where’s the maga hat?
- Comment on Day 402 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 2 months ago:
Fair, I just found it funny XD
- Comment on Evolution: 🖕 2 months ago:
Also these ears will help to uh, absorb the echoes and extra noise of the world around you. Yeah.
- Comment on Day 402 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 2 months ago:
“another fighting game character” YOU DARE DISRESPECT THE THWOMP
- Comment on Add it to the pile of reasons to hate 'em 5 months ago:
Yes, but when naming new things you typically go with… you know… the person that discovered and named it
- Comment on Add it to the pile of reasons to hate 'em 5 months ago:
Aluminum was the original name, YOU GUYS HAD TO GO AND CHANGE IT
- Comment on What the fuck 5 months ago:
Is this the loss of understanding of a joke?
- Comment on Definitely didn't waste half an hour making this 8 months ago:
6 is where the fuck it’s at, shit looks comfy as fuck and I will fight everyone else here I don’t even care if you agree with me
- Comment on My mom asking me why I'm burnt out from my job in health information management [Day 57] 9 months ago:
Just pirate it to avoid giving money to Franco :)
- Comment on Until Dawn remake arrives on PC October 4, requires PSN account 1 year ago:
Exactly, we don’t, a port that doesn’t require an account would’ve been fine. But Sony doesn’t port until years later because they know a lot of people would stop buying PlayStations
- Comment on Can you spot the g differences? 1 year ago:
I missed the ponytail and the wave, does that mean I only found e of them?
- Comment on Until Dawn remake arrives on PC October 4, requires PSN account 1 year ago:
I know we already knew this was coming, but it’s a fucking single player game, WHY do they need an account. Fuck sony, don’t support this shit, if you HAVE to play the game chances are your buddy has a PS4 and you can rent the game
- Comment on You know, it's a movie for kids 1 year ago:
There was honestly a lot in this movie that gave me nightmares as a kid. The giant spiders, lion hiding in the bedroom, big game hunter coming for me, giant mosquitoes, monkeys, poison plants… yyyyyyeah.
- Comment on JetBlue makes you watch an ad to connect to wifi 1 year ago:
Not all flights include Wi-Fi, even if the plane is equipped with it