Originally posted by jimslyp69
In my mind, from life's experience as a general bum, I see that principals of physics and such are created from observations we have made of the things around us and within, both looking far out and far within. We make make assumptions that everything is constant and that things should behave, within the parameters of the laws and equations we have drawn f ...[text shortened]... ing something so massive and complex?
You can't fit a square peg in a round hole.
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“...we still fail to present a workable explanation to life and the universe. ...”
we haven’t unified the laws of physics so I would agree that we certainly haven’t got a “complete” explanation of the workings of the universe but that doesn't diminish what we DO know (which is considerable) and I don't agree with you about; “we still fail to present a workable explanation to life”.
Sure we don't have a “complete” explanation of abiogenesis or of biology but nether of those two facts are surprising since abiogenesis happened a long time ago and modern biology is hugely complex and, with the help of knowledge of evolution, I would say there are no more really 'big' mystifying mysterious left; we just don't know some of the details. But we do know overall what must have happened and where all that complexity of life came from so I would say we HAVE, overall, a “workable explanation to life”.
“...Should we not just admit defeat and just appreciate it allfor all of its beauty and just accept that the human mind is just not capable of understanding something so massive and complex? ….”
if what you mean by “ just admit defeat” is not to try and rationally understand even part of it then I should point out that we already understand a considerable amount about it and what we don't understand does not diminish what we do understand and we are understanding more and more as a result of applying scientific method and there is no reason to not believe we can continue to understand more and more of it so what reason have we got to “ just admit defeat”?
And why cannot we NOT “ just admit defeat” AND continue to appreciate beauty?