It’s quite remarkable to me how something as simple as looking at the foundations of one’s thinking can be so terrifying. It appears it’s easier to respond with a five year old’s “Your non sequitur is worse than mine.”

Steven Weinberg won the Nobel Prize in physics in 1977. Evidently, he had never given a moment’s thought to the most obvious basic fact about the limitations of science.

Some 25 years after winning the prize, a physicist friend said to him, “You know, science doesn’t really explain anything, it only describes.” This truism evidently had not only not occurred to Weinberg, it terrified him. It terrified him to the extent he wrote an essay on it for the New York Review of Books: “Does Science Explain Everything? Anything”

He concluded in fact it does not explain anything. However, at the end, he realized he didn’t like this idea. So he pulled a “Reverend Andy” He said, (paraphrasing) “I don’t really care if the word “explanation” has meant something entirely different throughout human history, not only to non scientists but every scientist prior to me. I’m a scientist, and heck, I won the Nobel Prize so I can define the word “Explanation” however I want. And by my lights, science explains everything.”

It’s like he had precognition, and knew what Reverend Andy would say. Who knew that you would be the first person (despite being a non research scientist) to provide definitive evidence of parapsychology!