Ok, firstly, I wouldn't call the incidents "exaggerated". I think the correct word is "vivid". They added to the effect and actually made you feel like "now this is a disaster alright!" unlike in the day after tomorrow where new york gets flooded and you just think, "yeh pretty bad, oh well shit happens".
Well, being someone who has knowledge about the procedures when an aircraft is put in an emergency situation, I can tell you that the plane
would not blow up constantly like it did in the movie. When an aircraft is put in that scenario, the fuel is often cut off so that a huge explosion cannot happen. Even if it did, it would be unlikely for it to explode like it did numerous times.
As for your statement that the Scientologists do not belief in dates and all that, I agree. The movie was very unclear about it's direction in the first half and was very subtle about where it was leading. However, the second half was sort of 'Fuck it, they need to know anyway' and put together. Like I said, watch it again and look at the end when the space pods fly off into space. They show the Scientology logo.
And I thought the concept of a flooded earth was scarier than the incidents in Knowing, even though both were equally as implausible technically.
Secondly, "my scientific mind tells me to leave it alone" is referring to the fact that science would not be able to test or explain how a piece of paper with numbers written on it by a schoolgirl 50 years ago could predict every major disaster of the last 50 years. I mean it does sound like superstition, does it not? And science keeps well away from superstition. That's all that was meant by it, from my reading of it...
Yes but Science does anything BUT to leave it alone! If Newton felt the apple thud on his head and left it alone, things would be different. Back in the day things revolving around Physics consisted of superstitions derived from the Church, for example the fact the Church believed the other planets revolved around the Earth, including the sun. Anyone who went against this was tried. Just look at the fate of Galileo. In those days, the subjects Scientists had researched were explained by superstition!
Would you not say that scientifically, getting bad luck from walking under a ladder or looking in a broken mirror, is bullshit?
Topic: The film: Knowing