Then why do it?
In science, we try to understand what is taking place in the world around us.
We do so by building models that we think explain what is taking place.
This helps develop what is called a reference point.
This is a point from which we do further investigation. As we continue to investigate a phenomenon, we either find the new information we gather: supports the model, creates a need to slightly modify the model, creates a need to greatly modify the model or creates a need to scrap the model and start over.
Whatever the case, the original model we created acts as a means of understanding what we had at the moment.
The original model is not what is to be protected.
What is to be protected is the idea that the original model is only a starting point.
Its purpose is to allow growth in understanding as new knowledge is gained.
The whole point of the model is to explain what we know presently.
We must allow the model to become obsolete as we move into the future and gain a better understanding of what is taking place around us.
What if the model does not grow, does not change?
If the model does not change, then we are not growing; we are stagnating.
Couldn’t the model be the correct model and wouldn’t that explain why it may not change?
Symbiotic Panentheism: A Perceptual Shift for Humankind -
Part II of II
That would only be true if we knew everything.
It would be true only if we were omniscient.
If we were omniscient, we would be the Causative Force Herself, and few of us would be so bold as to make that declaration.
So now what?
Now, we – you and I together - begin.