Revolution Posted June 9, 2022 Share Posted June 9, 2022 What are things science can't explain? I'll start: How the words I'm typing right now have any meaning. (There's no meaning in lines of letters or atoms moving around in our body. But the meaning exists.) How humans have feelings. (Chemical reactions.don't have feelings.) What else? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Samsara Posted June 9, 2022 Share Posted June 9, 2022 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_unsolved_problems_in_philosophy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kakihara Posted June 9, 2022 Share Posted June 9, 2022 I don't know if it counts but, the origin of the universe, I'm a logical person but, the big bang explosion really? it might try to explain the expansion of the universe, but not the origin per se and why. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Before Today Posted June 9, 2022 Share Posted June 9, 2022 The origin of life. Why we're the only animals with advanced intelligence, I mean would it be cool if we went to school with cats? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HauntinglyHollow Posted June 9, 2022 Share Posted June 9, 2022 1 hour ago, Revolution said: How the words I'm typing right now have any meaning. (There's no meaning in lines of letters or atoms moving around in our body. But the meaning exists.) How humans have feelings. (Chemical reactions.don't have feelings.) there are certainly mysteries that "science" is still short of explaining but these two are definitely not part of that Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HauntinglyHollow Posted June 9, 2022 Share Posted June 9, 2022 8 minutes ago, Kakihara said: I don't know if it counts but, the origin of the universe, I'm a logical person but, the big bang explosion really? it might try to explain the expansion of the universe, but not the origin per se and why. We will never know the origin of the universe, even if there is something that would fit the definition of "origin". Also the bigbang is not a theory about the origin of the universe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jqnetto Posted June 9, 2022 Share Posted June 9, 2022 Your first statement isn’t giving what you think it gives since it implies that linguistics isn't a science. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bumpah Posted June 9, 2022 Share Posted June 9, 2022 Dreams. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
magazine Posted June 9, 2022 Share Posted June 9, 2022 the gays! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
byzantium Posted June 9, 2022 Share Posted June 9, 2022 The straights. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johnny Jacobs Posted June 9, 2022 Share Posted June 9, 2022 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
McNulty Posted June 9, 2022 Share Posted June 9, 2022 Consciousness Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Slayne Posted June 9, 2022 Share Posted June 9, 2022 me being single Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aethereal Posted June 9, 2022 Share Posted June 9, 2022 Time. The universe question and time are very closely related. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
katykater Posted June 9, 2022 Share Posted June 9, 2022 (edited) Science is about what could be measured and quantified. The things that could not be measured and expressed in numbers, are outside the realm of science. Can you measure love in SI units? Science describes and makes mathematical models for all the things we can observe, measure,... So it won't say a thing about what is causing physics can be described in simple and elegant formulas. Whether there is a god behind it or not cannot be answered. Religion has the tradition of seeing the advancement of the sciences as the threat making the religious explanations for everything in life obsolete, irrelevant,... So the churches have attacked science like science is about to make the churches flop. In many European countries, churches have been converted into nightclubs, concert halls,... Edited June 9, 2022 by katykater Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
babooshkat Posted June 9, 2022 Share Posted June 9, 2022 The common ancestor of all organisms. There are various theories, such as endosymbiotic theory, RNA world. But there’s no scientific consensus yet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlackStar_93 Posted June 9, 2022 Share Posted June 9, 2022 As others have said, the one that really gets me (and I try not to think about it as it leads me down a rabbit hole) is why and how does everything exist? I'm talking far beyond our planet Earth and human comprehension. I get the Big Bang theory and all that, but if we go back billions and billions of years ago long before earth and our universe, why did space come to be? What was before any of it? Honestly, it's a complete mind **** so I'm gonna stop. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
katara Posted June 9, 2022 Share Posted June 9, 2022 Homosexuals Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grumpy Cat Posted June 9, 2022 Share Posted June 9, 2022 Artpop still being discussed in 2022 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BOOMBAYAH Posted June 10, 2022 Share Posted June 10, 2022 Aging process + Dreams Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goaty Posted June 10, 2022 Share Posted June 10, 2022 11 hours ago, Samsara said: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_unsolved_problems_in_philosophy these make my head hurt Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ichinaru19 Posted June 10, 2022 Share Posted June 10, 2022 12 hours ago, Saljju said: The origin of life. Why we're the only animals with advanced intelligence, I mean would it be cool if we went to school with cats? Science can help us understand aspects of the origin of life. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Revolution Posted June 10, 2022 Author Share Posted June 10, 2022 Unfortunately, science is very bad at "chicken-or-the-egg" things like the origin of the universe or the origin of life or the origin of information / meaning. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sugarysunflower Posted June 13, 2022 Share Posted June 13, 2022 Life after death / reincarnation Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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