Do you agree that the world is full of mysteries, and not everything can be explained by science?

Well yes of course. God has knowledge that He chose to remain as mysteries. I believe that when Jesus comes for His Church, that His Church..the Bride..will know the mysteries. And, in the eternal age, I believe all will know all mysteries, especially of the universe. And, that will be exciting..can't wait!

Very cool question, made me both think and do research. Thanks for that!

There are things science can't explain ... yet. That does not mean that they don't have scientific explanations. Assuming the unexplained is unexplainable is a faulty conclusion.

By the way. the Klerksdorp spheres and sailing stones both have scientific explanations.

As for the "pipes" a 2003 article in the Xinmin Weekly, Chinese scientists using atomic emission spectroscopy found the Baigong Pipes to contain organic matter of plant origin. In addition, the news article also stated that tree rings were found in sections of these rock formations and, as a result, they were judged to be fossil trees or tree roots.

The blank spot is really interesting though. It may take a while to figure out being 6-10 billion light years away, but interesting never the less. Several ideas have already been posited, and though unconfirmed, it's not a profound discovery, just a head scratcher.

The placebo effect is, as it always has been, quite the mystery. Clearly the brain plays a larger role than we know in well being. The capability of the brain will likely be an area of job security for a long time to come. It is impressively complex. I see a few people saying that it is well understood, it is not. We know it occurs, but the best we can say is that the brain plays a role in bodily health. In most cases, the results of a placebo are just a "percieved" result by the user, but in same cases there is a tangible improvement where there technically shouldn't be. It is not as entirely understood as some may think.

So far.

As for the examples at that site, I notice that only part of the relevant information has been supplied and it contains stupid lies. Standard practice for "mystery" sites and cheap magazine articles.

The fact that the Klerksdorp concretions might have been explained already has been carefully left out, as expected on a site like that. It appears that tests by NASA have never been done, so that part is probably a stupid lie that anyone can check up on and find to be false.

The moving stones have been studied by fewer than ten people and so far the wind explanation seems to be adequate. even if you don't like it.

The so-called holes in the Universe are within the known arrangement of galaxies, in which they occupy something like the skin of a bubble with voids or holes in between. These "holes" are just unusually large. But they didn't tell you that and I do not wonder why, since the entire intent of the page is to deceive. Big mystery? Stupid lie, more like.

Baigong pipes? The "iron" is only 30% ferric oxide, which comes down to 21% iron in all. The rest is sand and lime with some plant material. So what are they? Holes left by tree roots that have partially filled with very common minerals. Where's you mystery now? Yet another stupid lie on that site.

You can always create a mystery by muddling what is known, lying about something or omitting relevant information.

The first two, the placebo effect and the travelling stones, have been explained very well by science. I haven't heard about the other three but if they haven't been explained yet, they probably will be. Just because science cannot explain something now does not mean it won't be able to next week. That sort of thinking leads of god-of-the-gaps theology where gods eventually disappear in a puff of science.

I'll agree that there "mysteries" (but not that the world is full of them).

And that not everything can be explained by science *yet.*

That's no reason to consider things we can't explain yet "magic."

I agree that science doesnt explain everything. Given the fact that you post this in R&S I will add that what science doesnt explain is quickly dwindling. Positing a "god of the gaps" argument becomes a less and less tenable position as time goes by.

Nah. There are things science _hasn't_ explained, and probably won't for a very long time. If humans survive long enough, it will, eventually. It all _can_ be explained by science, though. There's no reason to turn things unknown into things that are mystical.

Sure.

Just not the stuff on that list. Seriously, it's like the person who wrote it doesn't know how either Google or Wikipedia works.

Maybe THAT'S the real mystery.

There's a difference between "science can't explain right now" and "science can't explain ever".

This site with the terrible name, however, has nothing but retarded items.

in our generation, not everything is explained, in fact "OOOPs" when they found a 360 million year old extinct fish, coelacanths, in 1938, and now they found another of them, exactly as a fossil was described, people had to backpeddle repeatedly.

i agree the world is full of mysteries, and God gives us mysteries because it is in man to find them out.

but i have come to believe that everything that can be known in the universe if "finite" the only things that seem to change are the variableness of human choice, and freedom.