Re: [asa] Scientific Mysteries

I think the deepest of all mysteries is human consciousness. We have
no idea how our intentional acts go from conceptualization to
actualization.

2008/6/11 David Opderbeck <dopderbeck@gmail.com>:
> What are some paradoxes / mysteries / contradictions that the natural
> science have not yet been able to resolve concerning the natural world?
> For example:
>
> -- why are the pioneer space probes off course, given what we know from
> Newton and Einstein about gravity?
> (http://www.planetary.org/about/press/news/2008/0516_Newton_Einstein_Lost_in_Space.html)
>
> -- what is the "dark matter" or force that fills up the empty spaces in the
> expanding universe?
>
> This isn't to look for "gaps" or something like that. I think it would be
> helpful to illustrate that there are paradoxes and anomalies that science
> hasn't yet figured out about the natural world, just as there are paradoxes
> and anomalies that theology and Biblical studies haven't yet figured out
> with respect to faith -- every field of human inquiry has its paradoxes and
> anomalies.
> --
> David W. Opderbeck
> Associate Professor of Law
> Seton Hall University Law School
> Gibbons Institute of Law, Science & Technology

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