On The Limits of Human Talent

... and when it does put "God's word" to the test, then we should shut down our god-given brains and ignore god-given evidence.Why is the earth in specific and the universe in general not the "book" of god's creation? Certainly you will "never be able to figure out" anything you don't investigate.This is iconic cognitive dissonance behavior -- ignore anything outside your personal bubble of belief and knowledge that challenges those beliefs. Because if you ignore them then you can pretend that they are not true.Is your belief so weak that you fear to put it to the test?Enjoy

Attack the messenger rather than the message? When there are thousands of scientists coming to the same conclusions based on objective empirical evidence it must be their motives that are at fault? Do you have objective empirical evidence for this or is it just something you tell yourself to explain why science doesn't produce the answers you want? Like the evidence that shows the earth is over 4.5 billion years? The evidence that the universe is over 12.5 billion years? The objective empirical evidence that is left by their creation? Like the bible? LOL -- a lot of things humans do is a waste of time, but that doesn't mean scientific investigations necessarily are a waste of time. There are more important things that don't get done because of politics and false beliefs -- beginning with teaching proper science in school. Ah, refuting bad logic and unsupported assertions is ignoring them and pretending they'll go away. Compared to the catastrophe that is occurring due to ignoring climate change? Yep - that's one way to avoid testing it, a cognitive dissonance way. Curiously I test my faith with ALL substantiated knowledge, not some twisted belief based misrepresentation.Enjoy

dissonance
[dis-uh-nuhns] noun

1. inharmonious or harsh sound; discord; cacophony.
2. Music.
   1. a simultaneous combination of tones conventionally accepted as being in a state of unrest and needing completion.
   2. an unresolved, discordant chord or interval. Compare consonance ( def 3 ) . See illus. under resolution.
3. disagreement or incongruity.

consonance
[kon-suh-nuhns] noun

1. accord or agreement.
2. correspondence of sounds; harmony of sounds.
3. Music. a simultaneous combination of tones conventionally accepted as being in a state of repose. Compare dissonance ( def 2 ) . See illus. under resolution.
   1. the correspondence of consonants, especially those at the end of a word, in a passage of prose or verse. Compare alliteration ( def 1 ) .
   2. the use of the repetition of consonants or consonant patterns as a rhyming device.
4. Physics. the property of two sounds the frequencies of which have a ratio equal to a small whole number.

world-view
[wurld-vyoo] noun
noun
Weltanschauung.
[velt-ahn-shou-oong]
noun German.
a comprehensive conception or image of the universe and of humanity's relation to it.
Origin: literally, world-viewIf we consider our worldview analogous to a cell, then we can consider the cell membrane to be a filter that allows good things (consonant with the worldview) and blocks bad things (dissonant with the worldview).Any dissonant information that gets inside is then treated like an infection that is either attacked, ignored, neutralized or absorbed and the cell can adapt to accept and use the new information, incorporating it into the worldview.This is how cognitive dissonance theory predicts behavior related to new information.In addition the strength of the belief is related to how strongly new information that is dissonant with the belief is attacked or ignored.Enjoy

Even if true it is immaterial ... if we were to go to the moon again an entirely different approach would be used, probably one that would involve the space station and building the moon ship from modules sent there. It would most likely be designed for multiple trips to the moon and back, even for setting up a colony there.There are also new things known about safety and design, new resources for solar energy and computer hardware, much more compact and lighter than was used before, new 3D design software that can model everything down to the nuts and bolts to streamline design and construction, so why on earth would anyone want to use the same design?It would not be that difficult to do a whole new design ... after all, it's just rocket science ...EnjoyEdited by RAZD, : ..

Curiously engineering borrows from a lot of sources when doing design, and previous design is one of them. Just look at cars, something old, something new, something borrowed and something blue.Enjoy.