A few years ago I was taking a tour of a dome shaped house, and the architect explained to me that domes are an optical illusion.
This notion of context has followed me throughout my life, into virtually every topic I’ve come to wrestle with.
The Galileo verdict caused a rift between science and religion that continues even today.
There are four types of measurement scales – nominal, ordinal, interval, and ratio.
Yes, we can count on such things as buildings existing from one day to the next, the earth traveling around the sun in the same orbit, gravity holding us down, and the speed of light remaining reasonably constant.
Religious people use a different metric, but they too have a way of calibrating their truths with logic and reason.