Re: If it Can't be Proven, is it worth contemplation and respect?

Absolutely disagree.
It’s the people who keep on discussing things which mainstream society doesn’t believe that keeps research going. Without research we’d never learn anything.

Btw.... quantum physics is a field of study being done by many so tell all those physicists there is no field of study. Lol
Without inquiry and curiosity we would still think the world is flat.

Re: If it Can't be Proven, is it worth contemplation and respect?

[QUOTE=Surfermom;1719076]On the tails of a worthy thread started by Bratti..,

I have a friend who is very well-educated and works in a scientific field. He told me once that if it can't be proven, then it isn't worth thinking about or debating - it's just all hogwash.




Wow!!...what a closed mind he has,sounds like he can't think outside of his own thinking/educating...so no surfermum, I don't agree,

There is more in this world than science,IMO of course.

Re: If it Can't be Proven, is it worth contemplation and respect?

[QUOTE=pauline3;1719172] What is the difference between knowledge and wisdom?

Regards Donkeyman!

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Trouble is some of the time it goes from being a discussion to an argument

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Did you actually say ALLOWED, SM?
This is the OFF
Regards Donkeyman!

Re: If it Can't be Proven, is it worth contemplation and respect?

Mups, Pyxell, and Bratti...

I totally agree with you and got into a thoroughly enjoyable, lengthy, and heated debate with the friend mentioned above about where the ideas of the likely unprovable meets the belief system (probability, outcomes from models, residual evidence, etc.) of the scientific world.

Our relative understanding of so much began with an idea that was "out there" sometimes to the point of it being heretical or making someone a laughing stock. Newton and Einstein were both dreamers, after all.

I tend to think that now that we are deep into the technological revolution, we tend to think that ideas like afterlife, beforelife, religion, beauty, love, perception, multiple dimensions are archaic, having no real value in our now very scientific world. For example, we have a whole generation of kids who are being taught that unless you are in a STEM field, your are wasting your time.

Aren't science and humanities, utterly intertwined? Isn't the question of why Neptune is gorgeously out there, robin's egg blue, with wispy clouds just as important as the facts of its composition and how it formed?

It all matters, IMHO.

Re: If it Can't be Proven, is it worth contemplation and respect?

Great post Surfermom .

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Besoeker, this thread started with Surfermom saying:

" He told me once that if it can't be proven, then it isn't worth thinking about ..."

She went on to ask do we agree or disagree with that statement.

My answer was that I disagreed, because that to me, shows a very closed mind because there are many, many things which they can't prove - YET, same as Pyxell said.

Is that clearer now?

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There are many things that they can not prove.

They may "Never". be able to prove that some things don't exist,

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I agree, Bratti.

Well said Surfermom.