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Article: HUMANITY IN TIME AND SPACE.
- Article from:
- Free Inquiry
- Article date:
- March 22, 2001
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Scientific data can provide perspective
Since Galileo first turned his telescope on the heavens, scientific instruments have steadily expanded our view of the universe. Now we can peer far beyond the puny range of unaided human sensory apparatus. What we see when we look through these instruments bears little resemblance to the pictures previously drawn from everyday experience. Clearly purely internal thought processes, whether based on revelation or reason and supplemented solely by unaided sensory observation, provide a woefully inadequate mechanism for learning about the nature of the universe. It seems highly unlikely that we can hope to understand ourselves ...
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... ... looking in the dark. THE UNIVERSE WE KNOW is a big old ... years ago, when the universe was only a few microseconds ... superheated soup of subatomic particles called quarks, the building ... small, hot, and dense universe exploded into existence ... little gas-bubble universes that each ...
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