Reply to thread

Message: <blockquote data-quote="Paul Farquhar" data-source="post: 8275973" data-attributes="member: 6906155">Incomprehensible means can never be understood. Like Literature to a goldfish. If something is not yet comprehended, but can be comprehended in the future it is, by definition, comprehensible. There is no way to determine if something is, or is not, comprehensible, until it is comprehended.Some scientists choose to believe the universe is comprehensible, but this is faith, not science. There is no evidential proof.You are right, if the universe is unintelligible, then science cannot function. There is no way to prove the universe is intelligible, other than experience. Every time the Sun comes up in the morning it makes it seem that the assumption that the universe is intelligible more reasonable, but it is not proof.In my field I, of course, speak to many in my field. It is a view shared by many of those in my field, although there is a tendency to pretend to non-scientists that we are a lot more confident than we are.Engineering only needs to know "does it work?". "Is it true?" is irrelevant.</blockquote>