Are you looking for an explanation or opinions?
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In this article’s sense, yes—Explain means “try to make something less mysterious”. For example, Newton Explained when devising the laws of physics, and a student who learns them is also doing some Explaining. Worship, on the other hand, means (in here, not in general) “revel in something’s mysteriousness” (e.g. Newton seeing an apple fall from a tree, and saying “I guess phlogiston did it”.) Ignore is the boring but sometimes practical option, saying “Eh, an apple fell from a tree” and leaving it at that.
CO2 as a cause of climate change “pays rent in anticipation”. Phlogiston as a cause of fire doesn’t.
The link to Meyer’s excerpt has been dead for two years, here’s an archived link: https://web.archive.org/web/20170801042830/http://csml.som.ohio-state.edu:80/Music829C/hindsight.bias.html
Manned spaceships have dozens of fallback plans to keep astronauts safe, even though they don’t anticipate things going wrong.