Davies\u2019 piece is discussed in many places around the blogosphere<\/a> and the web in general: Evolving Thoughts<\/a>, Uncertain Principles<\/a>, Edge.org<\/a>, Cosmic Variance<\/a>, Pharyngula<\/a>, The Bad Idea Blog<\/a>, Adventures in Ethics and Science<\/a>, The Reference Frame<\/a>, Ontogeny<\/a>, A Guy In The Pew<\/a>\u2026 OK, so maybe I won\u2019t list them all. But the amount of discussion that has been generated indicates not only that this is an interesting and important subject, but that many scientists find Davies\u2019 argument not merely unpersuasive but uncomfortable<\/i>. I can understand why they feel that way, and as I have said above, I\u2019m not sure whether I agree with the exact way Davies has formulated his point. He could well be wrong \u2013 he is, after all, a physicist (and physicists are sometimes wrong) and a human being (and human beings are sometimes wrong), and he is branching off into philosophy of science. But what he has written has people talking, and thinking, and that cannot be a bad thing. Even if science does not have faith in a rational universe, it certainly presupposes that a universe exists<\/a>, and that something rather than nothing exists is itself an awe-inspiring mystery, one that regularly leads cosmologists to use the term historically applied to the ultimate mystery<\/a>, i.e. God.<\/p>\n Is treating existence as meaningful a \u2018leap of faith\u2019? Is our experience of meaning sufficient to make it something other than a blind leap in the dark? Is treating existence and meaningless, a brute inexplicable fact, also a leap of faith? Is the experience of tragedy and chance enough to justify it? Do such experiences […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/7622297540113836091-8059622270664898421?l=exploringourmatrix.blogspot.com\")