Unbelief Swallowing up a Bit of the Word of God Unbelief reinterpreting the Word of God within its own categories A portion of the Word of God presented to unbelief “Unbelief controls my interpretation of the situation” 15
Unbelief Forced into a Contrast in Many Areas Simultaneously Unbelief challenged at the A portion of the Word foundational level of God presented to unbelief as part of a network “The Word controls my interpretation of the situation” Empowered by Eschatological Truths 16
“For the LORD is great and greatly to be praised; He is to be feared above all gods for all the gods of the peoples are idols, But the LORD made the heavens. . . . Give to the LORD the glory due His name.” Psalm 96:4–8 17
“You are worthy O Lord, to receive glory and honor and power; for You created all things, and by You will they exist and were created.” Revelation 4:11 18
“You alone are the LORD, You made heaven, the heaven of heavens, with all their host, the earth and everything in it. The seas and all that is in them, And You preserve them all. The host of heaven worships You.” Nehemiah 9:6 19
The Dynamics of Modern Scientific Communities • Politically funding educational curricula and research • Manufactured consensus • Secular agenda for training children • Not “evidence-based decision making” but “decision-based evidence making” 20
“Post-Normal” Science “The concept of post-normal science goes beyond the traditional assumptions that science is both certain and value-free . . . The exercise of scholarly activities is defined by the dominance of goal orientation where scientific goals are controlled by political or societal actors. . . . In post-normal science, the maintenance of quality, rather than the establishment of factual knowledge, is the key task of scientists. Scientists have to contribute to society by learning as quickly as possible about different [group] perceptions . . . instead of seeking deep ultimate knowledge.” [UK blogger citing the scholarly work of Funtowicz and Ravetz during the 1990s] 21
The So-Called War Between Religion and Science Key book: President Andrew White’s book A History of the Warfare of Science with Theology “Their goal was to secularize society, replacing the Christian worldview with scientific naturalism. They understood very well that they were replacing one religion with another for they described their goal as the establishment of the ‘church scientific’.” Nancy Pearcey and Charles Thaxton, The Soul of Science 22
Walker Memorial Dining Hall at MIT 23
The Mural on the Left Side of the Hall Hygeia— Nature figure goddess under the Tree linked to of the Asclepius, Knowledge of god of good and evil medicine crowning the Evil smoke scientist with the dogs of war Good smoke with cherubs “You shall be as gods knowing Diplomats & both good & officers at the evil” council table of the world 24
Need & Requirements for Deductive Reasoning Deductive reasoning needed to go beyond empirical observations to make theories and test them Requires immaterial laws of classification and logic Requires universality and invariance in laws of logic 25
Does Math Success Imply a Pre- Established Design? “The success of [scientific] procedure supposes in the objective world a high degree of order which we are in no way entitled to expect a priori. There lies the “miracle” . . . .I think of the comprehensibility of the world as a miracle or an eternal mystery.” Albert Einstein (1879-1955) 26
Need & Requirements for Inductive Reasoning Needed to make experience efficient—I don’t have to repeat experiences over and over again. Requires trust in uniformity (not uniformitarianism discussed later) Problem: how, apart from trust in the God of the Bible, can I believe in uniformity? (probability arguments can’t work because they rely upon uniformity!) 27
Need & Requirements for Ethical Behavior Throughout the Community Science requires ethical commitment to deductive and inductive reasoning regardless of the political, publishing, and funding consequences (no “manufactured consensus” & no post-normal science commitment to pre- established social goals) Experiment reporting must be honest—no fake data! Funding must be used for the stated purpose 28
Limits of Empirical Knowledge Galaxies 22 20 Ma n c re a te d to ha ve do minio n Solar o ve r na ture sta rting with the 18 System c o rre spo nde nc e Go d c re a te d 16 b e twe e n ma ny o f ma n’ s Deductions 14 e mpiric a lly-b a se d c o nc e ptio ns Telescope e Sun a nd na ture ’ s de sig n Spatial Domain of Natur 12 10 8 Mountains Space: Log 10 (cm) 6 4 Man Conjecture 2 Ultra-speed BUT the sc ie ntific me tho d 0 One cm filming re q uire s spe c ia l a dditio ns -2 (wo rldvie w de pe nde nt Bacteria Microscope c o nje c ture s) in o rde r to -4 pe ne tra te uno b se rva b le Deductions -6 pa st & future do ma ins -8 Deductions -10 Atom Molecules -12 T e mpor al Domain of Natur e Direct Observation -18 -16 -14 -12 -10 -8 -6 -4 -2 0 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16 18 20 22 Historical Visible Light One Second Historical X-Ray Sound One Hour One Year Beginning Universe Testimony Period Period Age of Period Life Period Instruments Time: Log 10 (seconds) 29 Reconstructed from Julio Garrido, “The Theory of Evolution and the Limitation of Human Knowledge,” CRSQ, March 1970, Vol 6, pp. 185-187
From Uniformity to Uniformitarianism Uniformity of natural law = constancy of natural processes actually observed Uniformitarianism = the belief that (1) only natural processes observed today can be used to account for observed geological, chemical, and atomic structures; (2) the rate of such natural processes observed today has always remained about the same 30
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