Would you like to know the benefits of being a Christian?

[The_Meach]

I trust that (science) can possibly formulate an explanation based on evidence and replicable results for everything that we as humans can perceive.

Even art?

[Fe 26]

I don't mean to sound like a vendictive atheist, but that shit was really hypnotic and the people there were getting into it in a scary way. Plus, I really hate soft synthesizer music.

well you can see talking dragons if you smoke enough pot and want to bad enough too.

[sethsez]

Even art?

What about it? "Art" is not a question, so science can't exactly answer it.

[Josh]

Edit: Fuck!

[The_Meach]

I think everything can be quantified, in one way or another. However, that doesn't mean we're capable of understanding everything in any meaningful way.

If humans can eventually quantify everything (thru the magic of the future's uber-science), but cannot understand it, could we say that there is a place in the world for things that do explain the otherwise un-understandable (unknowable)?

[Fe 26]

Depends on what you mean by unknowable.

I think everything can be quantified, in one way or another. However, that doesn't mean we're capable of understanding everything in any meaningful way.

THE MEANING OF LIFE IS 42!!!!111!!!

[g0zen]

well you can see talking dragons if you smoke enough pot and want to bad enough too.

Yeah, but they aren't really there though and if you believed they really were you'd be crazy, no?

If humans can eventually quantify everything (thru the magic of the future's uber-science), but cannot understand it, could we say that there is a place in the world for things that do explain the otherwise un-understandable (unknowable)?

You're assuming that science would come to a point where it would stop trying to expand or refine. Ideally, in an infinite universe, it would continue the process forever and never reach some kind of intellectual plateau.

[Jesus Christ]

Worst thread ever. Thanks a lot guys.

[Fe 26]

Yeah, but they aren't really there though and if you believed they really were you'd be crazy, no?

I don't know. I have really weird freinds.

[sethsez]

If humans can eventually quantify everything (thru the magic of the future's uber-science), but cannot understand it, could we say that there is a place in the world for things that do explain the otherwise un-understandable (unknowable)?

Hypothetical situations are meaningless because that's not what we're dealing with. I think that, given infinite time and infinite resources inside a completely static reality, we could quantify absolutely everything AND understand it all.

But that's not reality, so who cares?