Ouch. That is so close to the brink on God. And I think you're almost there.

Head first, then heart, then before you know it. you got it.

Moderateman,

What do you mean?

Edit: Who wants to play doctor with me? *grin* Answer me this:

Who is God?
What is God?
Where is God?
When is God?
Why is God?
How is God?

I'll be the musician (since I am)

I really liked this. Thanks for posting.

lol...

I don't think anyone wants to play doctor with you.

Trinitie

Doctor: There is Dark Matter.
Musician: There is? Cool! Where is it?
Doctor: Well, Dark Matter in space.
Musician: Where in space?
Doctor: No one knows for sure. Not there? Or maybe there? No one knows.
Musician: Hmm, ok. Well when did dark matter get there?
Doctor: No one knows. Now? Yesterday? Forever? Honestly I don't even know what time is.
Musician: Wow, heavy dude. Ok, how did dark matter become existing?
Doctor: It's a natural occurence or always existed or doesn't exist in that sense or it's all around us all the time. it's is part of a universal bipolarity which indicates a counterpart of equal strength of matter.
Musician: Neat. Can I have some?
Doctor: Some what?
Musician: Some of what you're on, man. Haha, just kidding. Ok, what is dark matter?

Ok, Dark Matter is hypothetical, but enough of our most respected Cosmologists and Physicists accept it that they are able to spend millions of tax dollars studying it and even teach it openly in public universities. All without anymore evidence than a Professor of Theology has that God exists.

So is Kaku considered respectable (with taxpayer funding), while the Theologian is just considered Coo Coo? ;~D

Very thoughtful and touchful.
Great story !

ParaTed2k, nice analogy. I think the difference is that no scientist will ask you to have faith in dark matter. In fact, I don't think a scientist will ever ask you to have faith in anything.

And by the way, you can find dark matter in our own solar system. Pick up a handful of dirt and hold it tightly in your fist. You now hold a fist full of dark matter. Anything not reflecting or emitting light is dark matter. The question is not whether or not Dark Matter exists, but how much of it is there, and does it compensate for the discrepancy we see in gravitational forces.

And by the way, you can find dark matter in our own solar system. Pick up a handful of dirt and hold it tightly in your fist. You now hold a fist full of dark matter. Anything not reflecting or emitting light is dark matter. The question is not whether or not Dark Matter exists, but how much of it is there, and does it compensate for the discrepancy we see in gravitational forces.

Interesting that even the most staunch supporters of the Dark Matter Hypothesis don't have this much faith that they can prove its existence.

That fact is EVERY scientist who asks us to believe in Dark Matter expect us to take it on faith... since it isn't even proveable enough to be called a "theory"... As is every scientific hypothesis.