Have faith
New article, as promised quite a while back - but I only just got around to putting it up on idleThinK, courtesy of Suckball and James Thoo ("Suckball's One", apparently). Have a read, anyway, it's worth a good think or so. And we'll just see how much of it is right, when Revolutions comes out. And I also put up James's blogger profile, complete with a Very Cute Picture of him :) Go nuts.
In yesterday's post-exam vacillation, Will beat me to a blog entry on whether knowledge is finite, and I must say he did quite a good job (although it's somewhat less objective than I would've done :P). After doing two years of A-level History, you tend to find yourself writing extremely balanced and objective essays, simply because you're conditioned to realize you get Lots of Marks for that...and unfortunately this mentality has seeped into my everyday writing, which can't be a good thing. Oh well. Have a read of it anyway, he doesn't have a commenting system, but you may direct comments to him through idleThinK if you wish :)
I was actually thinking today about gravity (been reading a Book). I was wondering...the law of gravity and gravitation had to exist before Isaac Newton, because it's a little absurd to think that there was no gravity before the 17th century, when Newton coined a law and a term for it. But before there was anything, before planets, before space, before there were minds to hold the law of gravity as sacrosanct, could it really have existed? Surely such a law requires there to be a mind to recognize its existence, or things (planets, stars) upon which it can assert its authority over...so how did gravity exist? When did the law start? Does it actually exist?
Yes it does, one must conclude, but only in the minds of people who have accepted it as truth...in fact, because the only logical conclusion is that gravitational law did not exist before Isaac Newton, gravity - and lots of other "natural laws" - is a human invention. It's all in the mind - just as much as faith is. What I mean is, Science and God must be equally creative inventions of the human mind. Contrary to what people think about science, the leap of faith required to believe in Jesus and God is really not so very different from the leap of faith required to believe that we are made up of little particles of energy called atoms, which no one has ever seen before, and that gravitational law is as sacrosanct to a scientist as the existence of God to a theist. There's a startling thought. Science is a religion.
But anyway. I have been feeling absurdly happy these past few days :)