#17 IMNSHO the author shows a profound misunderstanding of the tenets of basic science, how basic science is done, and how scientists think about the world around them.
I work at a major national science laboratory. I encounter scientists every day and often have the chance to speak with them and ask them questions about their research. Many read philosophy, but few would describe themselves as philosophers.
This nutbar, aside from trying to sound as high-falutin' as possible to, as someone said above, convince the rubes, simply doesn;t understand that good science has a sound foundation in a fundamental reality that we call natural physical laws - like that of gravity, that most of these natural physical laws can be understood through a solid grounding in mathematics, and that science is constantly striving to push the borders back, to understand more, and to improve its understanding of what science already thinks it understands. Few, if any scientists would ever presume they know everything (or even anything) about their own field of specialty let alone the universe.
If it were up to this guy the laws of thermodynamics would not apply and he'd be the one getting the free lunch
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