• qyron@sopuli.xyz
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    So, basically, we don’t know that much on anything besides understanding it’s really complex and difficult to figure out.

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        To quote someone a lot wiser than myself:

        It’s a shame stupid people carry themselves through life full of certainty while the wise ones suffer a life of doubt.

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          That’s a paraphrase of a famous Bertrand Russell quote. The original is as follows; “The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.”

          There’s also the William Butler Yeats corollary; “The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.”

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        No, before the scientific method was invented, the religious consensus was that “All is known”.

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            The Bible says something about the earth and how it is good and the filament of the sky and something. The Bible that is, at least that’s what I read on the internet. Many fine people on the internet, the best people, but not me, I haven’t said it, but the best people probably. The best people say the earth may be - and I’m not saying it is but they are saying it - they say that the earth may be flat and that doesn’t take much text to cover I have heard.

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            If you squint a little, the 7 days of creation in Genesis are relativistic-ish. 1 day to separate light from darkness (photons at 1 microsecond after Big Bang), another to create the sky (opaque universe at 370k years), another to form dry land and create life (earth formed, 9.3 billion years, life at ~0.2by later), etc etc. Anyone with a physics degree able to say what fraction of light speed god must have been travelling to make this happen such that only days passed for them between these events?

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              They are literal days.
              Our God is King of leading by example.
              Also, man was made from the dust of the earth. It was fitting that earth be created before man (also very important for prideful man).
              As He did, so we must do.
              It is repeated constantly that we have 6 days to work, the 7th to be set apart.
              Why?

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              If your point was that religions have oversimplified complex science to the point that people thought they fully grasped it, then I agree with you. Otherwise I have no idea what you are trying to say.

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      Not really, OP’s image is somewhat misleading. The truth is that we’re constantly trying to improve our understanding of physics and some theories are not completely correct but they often provide a way for future scientists to dig deeper and figure it out. Then with new knowledge, new hypothesis can be suggested creating a gateway to deeper understanding of some concepts further down the timeline.