From: vonroach (hadrainc@earthlink.net)
Subject: Re: Vestiges of Big Bang Waves Are Reported
Newsgroups: sci.physics, gac.physics.astronomy, sci.astro,

alt.astronomy, >alt.sci.physics

Date: 2005-01-18 15:49:44 PST
On 17 Jan 2005 10:58:02 -0800,

Science is not
about imposing a belief but about searching for facts
(regardless where they might lead you), which also happens
to be life's very reason for being... and this is why all men
are scientists from birth. So never spurn the surplus of
possibilities so cavalierly; and consider every possibility
you are lucky enough to every run across as the most precious
gifts the universe can bestow upon you

In this spirit, I suggest to you that search for facts may not be
life's reason for being. Searching for food, shelter, and a mate are
somewhat more important to survival. Curiosity or `searching for
facts' is a pastime to occupy one after the more essential work is
done. And curiosity seems to be a relatively uncommon trait and
somewhat of an obstruction to essential tasks - neither Newton or
Einstein was very successful at fathering a family (er..their very
reason for being).

Perhaps it's a mere misinterpretation of the term "facts"
between us, but everything you just mentioned is a "fact
on the ground." I doubt "food, shelter, or a mate" can be
illusory and still have any bearing to anyone's life except
as art/literature: A being without curiosity just sits there
and literally starves to death. Plants do not starve sans
curiosity because the Sun feeds them. But otherwise we animals
must search the world for facts (is this poisonous, is this
cave filled with snakes, is that woman a ***** or what?).
The wrong interpretation of any of these facts could prove
fatal.

S D Rodrian