Board Thread:Fun and Games/@comment-48285-20150223193811/@comment-25814498-20160725041853

I believe that there are entities and concepts that exist in this world which cannot be explained or tested in any rational way. There are ideas that escape all manner of logic, and ones that we will never find the answer to. Why is there something instead of nothing? What created the universe? Am I the only conscious being in existence and is everyone and everything just a figment of my imagination? There is no way to prove or disprove any of this, and as far as I am aware, there never will be; science's very nature is based on experimentation and evidence, and as such, no, it cannot explain everything. This is by no means is an excuse to place your faith in religion. Unlike the previous questions, science can be used to debunk many of the myths that religion peddles as fact. We cannot prove that a God like being doesn't exist. But we can prove that it didn't create man by breathing life into clay, by virtue of the theory of evolution. We cannot prove that an afterlife doesn't exist. But we can prove that Native Americans didn't come from the middle east, by way of indisputable DNA evidence conducted on thousands of test subjects. Believe what you will about the inexplicable, as it's definition grants you that right; your ideas are no more obscene than anyone else's. However, if your question has an answer to be found and science discovers it for you, do not deny the truth because it doesn't fit with your previous conclusions.

Science cannot explain everything, but not everything has or needs an explanation.