The Amazing Thing Is That Every Atom

90% Of The Mass In Your Body Comes From Empty Space.

Discerning The Merits Of Competing Claims Is Where The Empirical Basis Of Science Should Play A Role. I Cannot Stress Often Enough That What Science Is All About Is Not Proving Things To Be True But Proving Them To Be False. What Fails The Test Of Empirical Reality, As Determined By Observation And Experiment, Gets Thrown Out Like Yesterday's Newspaper.

Now, Almost One Hundred Years Later, It Is Difficult To Fully Appreciate How Much Our Picture Of The Universe Has Changed In The Span Of A Single Human Lifetime. As Far As The Scientific Community In 1917 Was Concerned, The Universe Was Static And Eternal, And Consisted Of A One Single Galaxy, Our Milky Way, Surrounded By Vast, Infinite, Dark, And Empty Space. This Is, After All, What You Would Guess By Looking Up At The Night Sky With Your Eyes, Or With A Small Telescope, And At The Time There Was Little Reason To Suspect Otherwise.

The Illusion Of Purpose And Design Is Perhaps The Most Pervasive Illusion About Nature That Science Has To Confront On A Daily Basis.

The Really Important Thing Is Learning How To Sceptically Question And Rely On Empirical Evidence.