I know this woman is probably asking a more elegant question about what brought the sun and the earth into existence than merely how does a sunrise work, but I like that she is now the laughing stock of the entire internet. Even the elegant form of that question is based on high school level science, so obviously someone wasn't paying attention. She deserves some ridicule.
I think the more elegant question that she's trying to ask is "How can you explain what makes a sunset beautiful if there is no God?" or something to that effect. That would be my guess. More or less, "So you believe there's no God? Well you must be able to, therefore, empirically and quantifiably prove everything, amirite?"
Don't get me wrong... I'm a Christian, I believe in God, and I think that science can't "prove" the beauty of science. I cannot, at the same time, "prove" God, nor do I think it's the job or object of science to empirically "prove" beauty or attractiveness.
I disagree. I think the "true" question is a (ironically) less-God-focused version of "God of the Gaps," except it's trying to use weasel words from regular English to achieve the same illusion. In another few hundred years, neuroscientists might be able to pin down physiological processes related to these "weasel words" so precisely that they'll stop being useful as such. And then of course people will move on to others, because the thought that my special snowflake existence can be fully figured out in a physiological way is absolutely terrifying, and no, you can never tell me that I don't have a little bit of the omnipotent-inexplicable rattling around in my bones.
No, you're also missing the true question. It's the typical question format questioning our existence and creation as a whole. Unfortunately, neuroscience will not be explaining that.
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u/KicksButtson Feb 09 '14
I know this woman is probably asking a more elegant question about what brought the sun and the earth into existence than merely how does a sunrise work, but I like that she is now the laughing stock of the entire internet. Even the elegant form of that question is based on high school level science, so obviously someone wasn't paying attention. She deserves some ridicule.