My thought exactly. This attitude is an unfortunate legacy of Copernicus. People should examine the biases they exhibit when saying such things. Should we feel less special because we have (at best) a really vague description of some underlying chemical process? Can't we be a little more sophisticated than to constantly redefine a center of the universe that pushes human experience into a role of unimportant random events?
To be clear, it's the word "just" in the post that I find questionable -- not the science itself.
There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
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My thought exactly. This attitude is an unfortunate legacy of Copernicus. People should examine the biases they exhibit when saying such things. Should we feel less special because we have (at best) a really vague description of some underlying chemical process? Can't we be a little more sophisticated than to constantly redefine a center of the universe that pushes human experience into a role of unimportant random events?
To be clear, it's the word "just" in the post that I find questionable -- not the science itself.
There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.