I love it, Scott.

I wrote an article about the three realms of science that I'll share with you here. Most scientists are not fully aware of these three simple distinctions:

First, there are things we can verify through repeating the setup and then getting the same outcomes (first realm of science, the gold standard so to speak).

The second realm is that there are one-time-events that cannot be repeated, but we are staring straight at the results nevertheless. The best example is the first appearance of matter some 13.8 billion years ago. The Big Bang event cannot be repeated.

The last realm is perhaps the most important scientific realm. It is least understood by scientists, or rather they are using it sometimes while they shouldn't: There are things we will never know, scientifically.

The examples for the third realm are the beginning of time, the beginning of space, and the beginning of energy. Scientifically, we have totally nothing today, and we should know that we will never (ever) get any scientific data about the beginnings of time, space, or energy.

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In religion, we can meld everything into one (and then end up with God in the very beginning).

In science, we are not allowed to meld everything into one when we only have scientific data about some of what exists and not about all there is.

Scientists melding the beginning of matter together with the beginnings of time, space, and energy are not really scientists; they are behaving like priests.

That is the essence of the article. I make the point that scientists should be scientists and should not walk into the realm of priests like a good number of them are doing right now.

Thank you for your reply once more, Scott. I really appreciate it. Here's my article, if interested:

'The Three Solid Realms of Science'

https://fred-rick.medium.com/the-three-solid-realms-of-science-ce725590742a