Imagine the situation. Humanity faced a hitherto unknown phenomenon. It manifests itself and it is no longer possible to brush it off.. Three independent research teams established. For experiment purposes, they will work completely autonomously, independently of each other. What will be the results, you think? I'm pretty sure, we get three pretty strong (depends on the composition of the groups and the worldview of the participants) differing conclusions, and each will be logical and reasonable. The reason may be, in the peculiarities of the human psyche, first find an idea, and then confirm and justify it. Continuing the logical chain, it can be assumed, that having adopted this or that result and its justification, humanity, further, can develop in three different directions.
Consider the phenomenon of telegony. Today it is considered superstition and obscurantism pseudoscience, not experimentally confirmed. but, even in the USSR of the fifties, Recognized, although rare. I think, whether our society is now more conservative, regarding sex, and the socio-political structure was approaching National Socialism, we would have confirmed “official science” knowledge, regarding telegony :)
I do not call to believe / not to believe in Telegonia, or some other phenomenon. Purpose of the post – just activate the thought process, and think, is the prevailing, in our mind, the picture of the world corresponds to reality. Any coin has two sides.
I will close with a few of my favorite quotes from Einstein.:
`` Everybody knows, that it is impossible. But here comes an ignoramus, who doesn’t know – it is he who makes the discovery. "
"Science without the religion of chromium; religion without science is blind."
`` Imagination is more important, than knowledge. ''
