Premature or excessive demands of the scientific method that all hypotheses be measurable and verifiable before extrapolating from those hypotheses may unnecessarily retard scientific progress. Many practical benefits were derived from the hypotheses of quantum physics before those hypotheses were conclusively evidenced. Infinity may preclude a final answer to the quest for ultimate causality. Yet that quest has yielded many answers to the causes of that perceived as reality that have practical application. While infinity implicitly argues for an unlimited multiverse, in the least, it also implicitly argues that reality cannot exist under the scientific method's demand that all existence be measurable, as the infinite of anything cannot be measured in totality. That fact suggests that perceived reality is the projected thought of formless mega mind or a universal intelligence and that science explores the processes by which mega thought justifies itself. However, since the totality of infinite thought cannot be quantified, it cannot exist under the scientific method's demands either and that perceived as life is illusion without verifiable cause or explanation. This conundrum confronted the first inquiries into the ultimate cause of reality before that inquiry branched into science and religion. Despite the different conclusions of both, they both remain confronted by the same unknowable. Science cannot identify the cause or source of universal energy and religion cannot identify the cause and source of godly omnipotence. Neither disciplines can answer why either should occur. However, our perception of reality entails that we must act out our roles in the scheme of life by negotiating that perception with pragmatism while reconciling the observable and measurable with the unknowable for that perceived as practical purpose. Science has always advanced accordingly and is consigned to do so until it evidences otherwise.
Lee Havens
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