The origin of the universe is simply not a repeatable observation and therefore puts science at a handicap in explaining it. Science is at its most successful when it is explaining fundamental laws based on repeatable observations and experiments and not events. Why would I say this? Because the origin of the universe was an event. So questions about the origin of the universe, why there are fundamental laws at all, are questions science can not fully answer. The scientist’s task is to simply uncover the fundamental rules that matter and energy follow, however to answer why matter and energy exist at all, why there is a space- time dimension, and why there are fundamental rules at all – is not a task for the scientist. The board is the space-time dimension where matter and energy exist and the rules are the fundamental laws of physics that govern the behaviour of matter within space-time. The spectators through numerous observations are able to figure out the rules the pieces obey, however they cannot explain why the pieces are there, why there is a board or why the rules are the way that they are.
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With enough observations the spectators uncover that certain pieces behave according to certain rules : the bishop moves diagonally the rook moves vertically and the queen has free movement in any direction.
He says scientists are like spectators watching a game of chess trying to figure out the rules that the pieces obey. Richard Feynman in his famous MIT lectures gives a wonderful description of what science is. This is what possibly happens when science over steps it’s limits. On that basis colonization was a rightful and justified duty because the African it had been shown was not fully rational man. Anthropology was a field that presented “scientific evidence” that the African was closer to the ape than to Western man. Africa could tell you a thing or two about how science had been used to shape ideologies. It has become the hand maiden used in pursuing ideologies. This success has breathed an unfortunate air of arrogance into such a humble servant of curiosity. I think it this success that has placed science on the pedestal of knowledge in our current generation. Science is well poised to meet these challenges and has demonstrated that through its innovations and technology. A field positioned at the interface of the intricacies of atomic and molecular behaviour and application to everyday real life challenges. It’s no surprise I became a chemical engineer. As far back as I can remember I have always had a fascination with science and it’s ability to illuminate the mysteries of the natural world.
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