Posted: Nov 07, 2011 12:50 am
im not a creationist. I am a realist, and part of that is the reality that systems break and become uncreative after a certain amount of success due to capitalization of resources. Study any period of history and you find that. Scientific institutions which are now an industry is likely to be similar in dynamics, which we can see happening.
We just should not have this many amateurs outside the system making breakthroughs.
We can akin the situation with science now to big business. 5 years ago lots of us were messing around as hobbyists with stereoscopic projectors and even tried to make them into TV's. No commercial company would consider the idea 3d could be big. It was laughed at.
One seminal movie by james cameron (who was a stereoscopy fan) and now 3dTV sets are in all the stores by every manufacturer within a year. Easy for them, as nobody could patent it. Its the same with science. In a year structuralism will be accepted, now that dawkins stamped it as plausible. there will so many publication it would be completely forgotten that creationists and fringe theorists pushed it up there.
Dawkins after receiving some calculations on the likelihood of super-intelligence existing elsewhere in the universe due to stats on extrasolar planets and some new experiments on artificial life is even backing down on his idea there could be no godlike power out there to a position of even if there is it was never right that we thought it could be true without evidence.
I dont know the shop round the corner will be standing before i go out to get some milk. I have no evidence. Should i consider going there to try and get some ? (milk that is, not evidence)
We just should not have this many amateurs outside the system making breakthroughs.
We can akin the situation with science now to big business. 5 years ago lots of us were messing around as hobbyists with stereoscopic projectors and even tried to make them into TV's. No commercial company would consider the idea 3d could be big. It was laughed at.
One seminal movie by james cameron (who was a stereoscopy fan) and now 3dTV sets are in all the stores by every manufacturer within a year. Easy for them, as nobody could patent it. Its the same with science. In a year structuralism will be accepted, now that dawkins stamped it as plausible. there will so many publication it would be completely forgotten that creationists and fringe theorists pushed it up there.
Dawkins after receiving some calculations on the likelihood of super-intelligence existing elsewhere in the universe due to stats on extrasolar planets and some new experiments on artificial life is even backing down on his idea there could be no godlike power out there to a position of even if there is it was never right that we thought it could be true without evidence.
I dont know the shop round the corner will be standing before i go out to get some milk. I have no evidence. Should i consider going there to try and get some ? (milk that is, not evidence)