What if white was black and black was white?
Why is there no natural explanation for why we call white, white and black, black?
It does not require a supernatural explanation in the light or lack of a natural explanation.
Something are just what they are.
But if you are applying the term to the earth and the atmosphere around the earth.
Truth is man does not hold on to the truths which matter. As man procreated he forgot to remember.
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Most people are neither black nor white, it's more like varying shades of brown or pink/beige. I would be more likely to define them by the paints needed to capture their skin tone (dark people are easier here), and nobody would be offended to be called sienna or umber.
"Forgot to remember", cute.
Why is there no natural explanation for why we call white, white and black, black?
Agreement and reproduction of behaviour. At some point we agreed that the combination of sounds (when spoken) and letters (when written) would designate the colour black. How hard is it to understand?
What explanation is there for it to exist in a space which is devoid of all life that we can see?
We have some ideas about the "how". There may not even be a "why".
Truth is man does not hold on to the truths which matter. As man procreated he forgot to remember.
Yep, man forgot to remember that the stories compiled in a certain book are just fiction, make-believe man came up with, in order to get comfort in an indifferent universe that was doing its best to kill her/him.
What if white was black and black was white?
Why is there no natural explanation for why we call white, white and black, black?
This is the kind of question you ask when you're very, very stoned. And all the equally-stoned people around you nod and say 'yeah, that's a really good point, when you think about it.'
... I imagine.
In English, the word "black" derives from a Proto-Indo-European root meaning "to burn", while "white" derives from the PIE for "bright, shining", both via Proto-Germanic to Old English through derivations that I'm sure you can imagine. Your language's mileage may vary.
But anyway - the primary reason we believe the Earth exists in a vacuum is because we've never measured anything to the contrary. If there were a fluid medium of some kind - water, air, luminiferous aether - in which the Earth traveled, we would expect something, whether a rocket or satellite or a beam of light, to behave differently if it were moving in the direction of that flow versus if it were not.
Ultimately, though, it becomes something of a philosophical point. If there is something surrounding the Earth, it's nothing that we can see, touch, interact with in any way - and we assume that we will never be able to do so, because if we can, on that day we'll learn a new and fascinating thing about the universe that will completely change our worldview - but if we assume that our current view is correct, is there any difference between this thing we can never interact with, and nothing?
Is the universe supposed to full of life now? According to whom?
And by the way there IS a natural explanation for those term, the language developed.
Michael Jackson. Also, Zecora.
Then Sissy was run over by both in a Cobra GT500 created by Carroll Shelby, as he walked on a road on a black & white crossing. [/Douglas Adams]
He'd forgotten how the Reggae artiste Yellowman had told him to go fuck himself.
@Canadiest
Well, I keep hearing about how the universe is fine-tuned for life to exist. So, yeah, it should be full of life.
We call things by names that we have invented ourselves. We keep inventing new names as necessary. We even have names for the physical world we live in, and for the processes by which more stars and planets are formed. The fact that YOU can't explain it does not mean that they have not been explained, by people a lot smarter than you are.
Some things just are what they are. If we did not have this cozy planet with all the necessities, we wouldn't have evolved. In other words, a special place was not created for us. We were created for this special place.
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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