Thursday, August 07, 2008
Something to think about...
I just read an article by David Coppedge about "Surprise Effects" in scientific research. There are many surprises discovered, day after day, as scientist continue to search beyond what we already know. Just when we thought we had it all figured out, and we start speaking about certain scientific information as if we know all about it, something completely new and contrary to what we though pops up! That's pretty cool.
"What is the message in these surprise effects? Science is tentative at best. Consensus is no measure of factuality. Even long trusted scientific theories can be challenged by anomalies. As Thomas Kuhn and subsequent philosophers of science have pointed out, scientist typically work withing paradigms, or accepted explanatory frameworks. Anomalies are surprises that don't fit the paradigm. When too many anomalies accumulate, a scientific revolution may occur, and a new paradigm may take its place. If you compromise the Bible with the latest paradigm, your positions could become a casualty of the next one. The Bible has outlasted a great many paradigms. Considering its Author, that's no surprise. " David Coppedge, Cassini Program, Jet Propulsion Laboratory
The heavens declare the work of the Lord, the skies proclaim the work of His hands. Psalm 19:1
"For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways," declares the Lord. "As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts. Isaian 55:8-9
If God is revealing Himself through his creation, I guess it follows that we'll probably never get it all figured out. Like some guy said, "We don't know what we don't know."
Just a random thought.
"What is the message in these surprise effects? Science is tentative at best. Consensus is no measure of factuality. Even long trusted scientific theories can be challenged by anomalies. As Thomas Kuhn and subsequent philosophers of science have pointed out, scientist typically work withing paradigms, or accepted explanatory frameworks. Anomalies are surprises that don't fit the paradigm. When too many anomalies accumulate, a scientific revolution may occur, and a new paradigm may take its place. If you compromise the Bible with the latest paradigm, your positions could become a casualty of the next one. The Bible has outlasted a great many paradigms. Considering its Author, that's no surprise. " David Coppedge, Cassini Program, Jet Propulsion Laboratory
The heavens declare the work of the Lord, the skies proclaim the work of His hands. Psalm 19:1
"For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways," declares the Lord. "As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts. Isaian 55:8-9
If God is revealing Himself through his creation, I guess it follows that we'll probably never get it all figured out. Like some guy said, "We don't know what we don't know."
Just a random thought.
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