Michael Davis wrote:

Thomas Lee Elifritz wrote:

"Tim K." wrote:

>>> Thomas Lee Elifritz wrote:

of which we as
a species and a civilization know almost nothing about, in global scale,
certainly on cosmic scale.

There's that ego again - if *you* don't understand it, "we as  a species and
a civilization know almost nothing".

My claim wasn't based upon my understanding of any particular thing, rather that
our totality of understanding of the cosmos and the planet Earth is extremely
limited,

Really?

Hello Michael,
'Extremely' may not be quantified, how to you quantify it? Do we 'know'?

a claim that is trivially supported by the evidence

What evidence would that be...

I can't speak for Thomas, but the present condition of science is to model. And any new model is based on an impartiality to previous conditions. Consider the radical thinking of Einstein when he broke from Newtonian mechanics. To do good science requires that you don't base your work on what may be dogma. In other words, it does no good to assume the completeness of science. Until it is complete, and IMHO it never will be, we can not know how complete it is.

Best, Dan.