RE:RE:RE:RE:RE:RE:OT: Those who bray in public.“I dont (sic) adhere to any religious beliefs as they are just archaic stories from a time when people had a hundredth of a fraction of the knowledge we have today.”
I know of no evidence that individuals today know more than others in the past. Collectively as a society our knowledge base is larger. We know different things today and we have learned that somethings we believed in the past are not true in fact. I would suggest to you that perhaps the real distinction between ages is that men better understood what they knew before. The Kalahari bushman’s intimate knowledge and awareness of the desert and how to survive is a pattern repeated in hunting/gathering peoples of North America and Australia.
Before we get too proud of our “knowledge” perhaps we should remind ourselves that all most of us ever know of the world is gained solely through our five senses. However it is a biological fact that evolution only provides those attributes that enable a species to survive and successfully reproduce – nothing more. It is therefore logical and possible that there are entities and communications around us of which we are totally unaware, such as the chemical communication between plants and fungi that our scientific instruments now can reveal but were always hidden in the past.
But you’re right, we got the laws of the physical world, that we can perceive, pretty much worked down to the penny.
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