YACT: How did we get here?

[jhu]

Originally posted by: Ornery
What do you do? And how did you get there?

Once in a Lifetime - Talking Heads
Remain In Light - 1980

• And you may find yourself living in a shotgun shack
  And you may find yourself in another part of the world
  And you may find yourself behind the wheel of a large automobile
  And you may find yourself in a beautiful house, with a beautiful Wife
  And you may ask yourself-well...how did I get here?
  
  Letting the days go by/let the water hold me down
  Letting the days go by/water flowing underground
  Into the blue again/after the money?s gone
  Once in a lifetime/water flowing underground.
  
  And you may ask yourself
  How do I work this?
  And you may ask yourself
  Where is that large automobile?
  And you may tell yourself
  This is not my beautiful house!
  And you may tell yourself
  This is not my beautiful wife!
  
  Letting the days go by/let the water hold me down
  Letting the days go by/water flowing underground
  Into the blue again/after the money?s gone
  Once in a lifetime/water flowing underground.
  
  Same as it ever was...same as it ever was...same as it ever was...
  Same as it ever was...same as it ever was...same as it ever was...
  Same as it ever was...same as it ever was...
  
  Water dissolving...and water removing
  There is water at the bottom of the ocean
  Carry the water at the bottom of the ocean
  Remove the water at the bottom of the ocean!
  
  Letting the days go by/let the water hold me down
  Letting the days go by/water flowing underground
  Into the blue again/in the silent water
  Under the rocks and stones/there is water underground.
  
  Letting the days go by/let the water hold me down
  Letting the days go by/water flowing underground
  Into the blue again/after the money?s gone
  Once in a lifetime/water flowing underground.
  
  And you may ask yourself
  What is that beautiful house?
  And you may ask yourself
  Where does that highway go?
  And you may ask yourself
  Am I right? ...am I wrong?
  And you may tell yourself
  My god!...what have I done?
  
  Letting the days go by/let the water hold me down
  Letting the days go by/water flowing underground
  Into the blue again/in the silent water
  Under the rocks and stones/there is water underground.
  
  Letting the days go by/let the water hold me down
  Letting the days go by/water flowing underground
  Into the blue again/after the money?s gone
  Once in a lifetime/water flowing underground.
  
  Same as it ever was...same as it ever was...same as it ever was...
  Same as it ever was...same as it ever was...same as it ever was...
  Same as it ever was...same as it ever was...

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sincerely,
your local riaa representative

 

[Vic]

Originally posted by: Astaroth33
"A random act of science" is an utterly meaningless statement, and illustrates the ignorance of those who say such things. Science is a process by which we seek to explain phenomena that we observe. This process is illustrated by the scientific method: Observe some phenomena, make a hypothesis as to why/how this phenomena occur, test the hypothesis via experimentation, and if the hypothesis repeatedly passes the experimentation, it becomes a theory. Theories are always subject to modification or to being thrown out entirely as new data is discovered, and the experimental results change.

But.. but... but... don't you know, science created the universe!

:roll:


Excellent post.

Just how the universe was created is a fact. The only question is just what that fact is. And the fact of that question is, we don't know the answer. Maybe someday we will find it, but today we don't know beyond a collection of possible theories, and theories change as you described above.
In the meantime, science should not be treated as a religion. Its theories are not something people should believe in as some type of religious article of faith. Such behavior corrupts science. Maybe the universe came into existence exactly the way scientists currently theorize... and God was still involved. That is a possibility that can never be disproven, at least not by science. In the meantime, We. Don't. Know.

 

[xirtam]

Go with the Honda.

 

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