Harmony

With our class's recent discussions about the sources of knowledge, such as the various arches, I began to reconsider what truly merits an objective perspective toward the world. Are we bound by the restrictions of human observation, making any sort of scientific or religious implications a potential bias? According to the principals of scientific study, our theories and ideas of the world are only built on what we can assume is true through the scientific method. However, even with this very strict foundation, we have still envisioned a universe filled with unexplainable phenomena and enough questions to occupy the rest of human civilization. While we may have accepted that it's impossible to know everything about our existence, we still continue to strive for a greater understanding of the world around us and the forces it uses to operate. The concept of philosophy draws attention to these questions that are, for the most part, unanswerable by scientific means and tries to assess some sort of conclusion from them. This does not mean that science cannot weave itself into these, however, as many new and old philosophies build upon the road of supposed knowledge that science has paved. Issues of faith are often put under fire with scientific interrogation, but even the fundamentals of science itself can be put into the realm of the unanswerable. For example, what initial forces caused the laws of physics to be set into motion? Are these forces observable on a spectrum not contained by light? Combining and harmonizing the different methods of thinking, both scientific and philosophic, can reveal the true vastness of what we do and do not know about the universe surrounding our tiny existences.