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Thinking Scientifically
The Absence of Evidence Doesn’t Negate Existence of Things not Seen
I like science. I am reasonably well read in science. I encourage people to read science. I have been known to show up at work, three different sources, including medical texts, just to a prove a point. Yeah, I admit it. I was a jerk back then. Technically, I guess I still am. Do you ever lose that hat? That said, I have argued for things that many people say there is no evidence to support it. Aliens, afterlife, and psi. I would say there is data to support these three things, and that they may be related, or linked in ways not imagined because, well, we as a species have yet to really invest time in looking at them. If you’re one of those that says there is no scientific evidence for preferred subjects, I hope you read this. Give me a fair chance to make an argument for you to rebut in the comments.
There are things we don’t know in science. There are things that we don’t even know we don’t know. Just because science has given us insight, even a static picture of what it proposes reality looks like, we don’t even know the half of it. Only 4 percent of the universe is visible. 96 percent of the universe is unknown to us! And yet, I have heard someone say, and so this isn’t mine, ‘how is it we have come to think that the 4 percent we know affects 100 percent of…
