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by dahidahi1 2983 days ago
Science has not been able to address every single thing. In fact science is not developed enough to address anything much beyond the most basic things. I'm not trying to disparage science, but I want to emphasize that there is like 99.99% of things we do not know or understand, which is great considering we will all have super interesting times ahead of us. Not a moment of boredom.
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> In fact science is not developed enough to address anything much beyond the most basic things.

I mean, we understand relativity well enough to predict astronomical movements and to account for it when synchronizing GPS, we understand biology well enough for genetic engineering and complex medicine, chemistry well enough to create exotic materials and superconductors, quantum mechanics enough to harness it for computation, physics enough to split the atom, space travel, astronomy, etc. We understand a lot more than "the most basic things."

We know much more than the people before us, not the other way around.
> Science has not been able to address every single thing. In fact science is not developed enough to address anything much beyond the most basic things.

Can you be more specific about what things you feel science cannot address? It seems like the one and only proven method for understanding our universe.