Agnostics respect the difference between opinion and fact
Re: “Bad news for worshippers of nine-headed pumpkins…”, Have Your Say, March 27.
Scientists say the core of the sun is a dense plasma consisting mostly of ions and electrons. That would seem to be beyond discussion. There is no logical argument to suggest a nine-headed polyamorous pumpkin dwells at the centre of our celestial furnace.
Science can offer reasonably logical suggestions and evidence of what exists in other parts of the observable universe, but not beyond that. Science cannot explain the infinity of time, space, distance – and possibly never will.
It also seems unlikely that science will ever be able to prove or otherwise the existence of a creator. But, I am confident that science will eventually prove or disprove the existence of a multi-headed pumpkin monster, unless it exists in another dimension!
The possibility of God(s)/a Creator is surely down to opinion. So far, it has no grounding in scientific fact. The English biologist TH Huxley coined the word agnostic in 1869, saying “It simply means that a man shall not say he knows or believes that which he has no scientific grounds for professing to know or believe.”
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