Hi Mary; "I've found curiosity in many things and have always enjoyed the "wondering" process my mind can take."
Curiosity, wonderment, & imagination are some of the most wonderful things that we experience, being not only productive but probably essential, and really add something of great beauty to life. I am not advocating the closure of doors; the possibilites are always there (in an ironic sense, our inability to know certainty keeps the wonder alive). What I am saying is that it is most beneficial to only ascribe a degree of truth to an idea that is warranted by the only objective measure we have: the evidence. Every idea must merit its status & any idea must be allowed to fall accordingly. It's the only way we will be able to best understand our lives, which we must before we can best manage them. Your example of the pet behavior is a completely valid question that we should strive to understand & to which we could easily apply science. And, you are right that outright dismissing such a phenomenon would be to discard some of that wonderment & curiosity that is so important in our lives. The same goes for your description of the coastal animals who seemed to presage the Indian Ocean tsunami, which I had read & wondered about. "Reliable conclusions have existed through out our existence. That is the reason we survived. Those that reached unreliable conclusions can be counted among the extinct." That's exactly true & well said. "Science has it's place but equally the wonder of the mystics also need to be acknowledged." I don't think science can or does degrade wonder. It revels & thrives in it, and it does slowly chip away at what exactly we can so easily wonder about, often to only reveal more mysteries than we began with, but it does not close doors to what it cannot or has not explained, or even to what it has explained. It is merely a method that allows us to choose the best explanations given our current knowledge. There will always be reason to wonder. Mike _______________________________________________ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
