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In reply to the discussion: On Reconciling Atheism and Meaning in the Universe [View all]longship
(40,416 posts)Even a three body problem is not solvable analytically. However, many knotty problems like you mentioned can be modeled mathematically which many scientists do to test theory.
And quantum field theory is about as accurate as anything in science, or at least that's what Richard Feynman said.
But you are very correct.
What I don't like is when people try to shoehorn some woo woo into the knowledge gaps. That would be a logical fallacy, the argument from ignorance.
I am comfortable with the fact that we don't know everything and that we likely never will know some things. It doesn't bother me to have to say I don't know.
But as far as anybody can tell, the laws of the universe are stable throughout space and time. So it is reasonable to say we very well may have a long run of finding more and more about how the damned thing works. Or, at least I don't see why that wouldn't be so.
Thanks for your correction.