tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-414946164942126209.post6316478107466485818..comments2024-03-18T12:52:29.024-04:00Comments on Encyclopedia of American Loons: #421: Fred Alan WolfG.D.http://www.blogger.com/profile/08875360501107597863noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-414946164942126209.post-79880435473416334832021-07-16T02:59:41.732-04:002021-07-16T02:59:41.732-04:00Well written, thank you.Well written, thank you.whatup_brahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01751535421923321721noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-414946164942126209.post-59458025541489437982018-07-14T04:26:38.436-04:002018-07-14T04:26:38.436-04:00But ask any scientist, and he or she will probably...But ask any scientist, and he or she will probably quickly point out the enormity of what we *don't* know. It's what we *don't* know that drives sentence. What characterizes New Age Scientists, and the What the Bleep gang, is that - although they sometimes say we "don't know anything" - go on to pretend to know a whole bunch of shit through imaginative gesturing. My complaint against these people is largely based on what they claim to know but don't.<br /><br />I have no idea what your point about ages of cultures is supposed to be. Western societies have been around for a while, and for most of that time they knew nothing of reality beyond their immediate sensory experience - just look at all the theological and philosophical speculations from the thousand years known as the Medieval times. It became deeply sophisticated and often very interesting - these people weren't dumb - but none of it was knowledge; it was all unsupported speculation - the *duration* of the period didn't change that; the speculations became sophisticated and complex, but they remained speculations. That changed with the evolution of science and scientific methods for investigating the world. There is still a lot of stuff we don't know, but we know *some* stuff. People like Fred Alan Wolf, however, are idly speculating, and to make what we do know, through science, to fit those idle speculations driven by what he wants to be true, he often distorts what we in fact do know through science as well.<br /><br />So yeah, for a tl;dr summary: There is very much we don't know. That's not the issue. The issue what people like the Bleep people claim that they know that's the issue. The power of tradition is just as untrustworthy (think Medieval European speculations) as their own wishful-thinking-driven sophistry.G.D.https://www.blogger.com/profile/08875360501107597863noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-414946164942126209.post-8526646541169899182018-07-13T08:34:15.153-04:002018-07-13T08:34:15.153-04:00This narrative is exactly the chuef complaint agai...This narrative is exactly the chuef complaint against Western Scientific Intellectual Arrogance.<br /><br />Western Science only explains so much. The Western society has been around for roughly 600 years, in comparison to mideastern and eastern dicietsso (600 to 6000 years).<br /><br />Si Wolf is completely correct; "What the Bleep do We actually Know in comparison!<br /><br /><br />Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09595461181794357978noreply@blogger.com