Faith in Science
Oct. 14th, 2011 10:55 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cappadociusI have no fucking clue how sight works. There's talk about wavelengths and light bouncing off of stuff, but when I try to apply this vague knowledge to things like mirrors, especially angled mirrors (like sidedoor mirrors on a car), and my mind melts a little. The natural encoding of an appalling amount of information in little subatomic particles may as well be magic. And yet, I trust that science guys have an answer that isn't a just-so story. I trust implicitly that we get how vision works. But why? Why do I have faith in this thing that I grew up with but was never explicitly indoctrinated to, but not that other thing (religion).
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Date: 2011-10-14 05:33 pm (UTC)I might not understand science, but I trust the scientists to be able to produce and reproduce results, which suggests they know what they're doing. Science produces tangible results; faith never actually seems to move a mountain anywhere.
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Date: 2011-10-17 08:18 pm (UTC)