Stories versus Truth

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Ungodly thinkers weave a complex lie about knowledge mysteriously springing from human predictions. We’ll explore the twists and turns of this complex lie. Part of this lie is confusion between scientific facts, scientific laws, scientific theories, scientific hypotheses, pseudoscientific storytelling, and flimflam. Sometimes this lie takes what God has revealed and assigns the glory to humanity.

When we can predict what will happen with certainty, that’s called a scientific law. Scientific laws are based on scientific facts. Scientific facts are repeatedly confirmed observations. God reveals truth through observations.

We might develop a story that conforms to the scientific facts. It conforms to the observations, but it goes beyond those observations. We might call our story a hypothesis. We might realize certain things would happen if the hypothesis is accurate.

If we run an experiment, a test, and find we get the result we expected, we haven’t disproved our hypothesis, but we haven’t proved our hypotheses either. We can’t prove our hypotheses since there’s no rational way to do that.

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Imagination or Truth

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Can humans receive knowledge through theories? Not directly. Trying to get knowledge from theories is equivalent to trying to get knowledge from human imagination. Here’s the trouble. Made-up stuff isn’t reliable and can’t result in knowing. On the other hand, God can reveal a vision of reality that goes beyond what we observe. This divine revelation isn’t a theory. It’s a revelation.

Making a story elaborate and detailed doesn’t prove the story happened. Even if the majority of an elite group believes the story, that proves nothing. Here are five common fallacies of pseudoscience. Making up a story is a fallacy of axiomatic thinking. Making up a story to match the observations and then claiming to have proved the story because the story matches the observations is circular reasoning. Adding details and making the story elaborate is a misleading-vividness fallacy. Appealing to the majority and appealing to the minority are both fallacies. While pseudo-scientists use many fallacies, these five are major tools they use repeatedly.

Theories aren’t a method for knowing since we can’t know anything by speculating beyond what we can observe.

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Coded Information Systems

This quote gives yet another reason the stories of evolutionism don’t work. The fact that they don’t work doesn’t prove the Bible is true. We know the Bible is true because God says the Bible is true. God speaks to us and faith comes. Faith is the evidence of things we can’t observe like the distant past.

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The problem is even more complicated. Evolutionists make up many stories about how generational changes could lead to the amoeba-to-humanity story. Some evolutionists claim gene duplication plus mutation did the work. They may not know they would have to create new coded information systems. They often don’t even bother to address the issue of coded information systems. They just act as if coded information systems popped into existence repeatedly for millions of years. They avoid talking about coded information systems or try to muddy the issue. No one has ever observed new coded information systems forming. Instead of talking about the coded information systems in specific ways, they talk about information in a vague way. That way they can call anything information. They sometimes try to claim no one understands what information is.

What is a coded information system? What is coded information? Coded information isn’t a property of matter. If you write your name on a piece of paper with a graphite pencil, the information isn’t the graphite or the paper. The graphite and paper carry the information, but your name is the information. You could have written your name on a rock with paint, and the information would be the same.

However, coded information isn’t enough to create a new function in a living plant or animal. Functions don’t just happen. For instance, the way you can move your eyebrows didn’t just happen. Several functions control your eyebrows. Each of those functions needs a coded information system. Each system has parts. The parts work together. Information is one part. That’s not enough. Something has to check to make sure information isn’t damaged. Something has to repair damaged information. You can find out about coded information systems by searching for the term on Creation.com.

Coded information systems are complex, interdependent structures. Competent scientists have defined them explicitly. Evolutionists make up stories about information forming by natural processes. However, they rarely mention coded information systems. Systems we observe in living plants and animals could never form by natural processes.

Scientists do observe living cells with tremendous amounts of variability pre-programmed in. Mutations sometimes lose coded information systems or parts of those systems. However, they don’t add new coded information systems.

We haven’t observed anything that could result in a simple organism adding a single new coded information system. The story of evolutionism claims natural occurrences in nature created all the variations, designs, and complexities of life we see around us. In other words, we can’t see any machine or method in cells that would cause the supposed events of molecules-to-humanity evolution. On the contrary, the stories all fall short of explaining what we can observe. As a result, no model of evolutionism works. And yet, evolutionists tell the stories convincingly, so students believe the stories. They don’t call these stories “stories” but give them other names that sound more real. Then students dogmatically defend the stories because their teachers have deceived them and sold the made-up stuff to them.

But theories aren’t part of reality, and theories don’t become part of reality, nor do theories become facts in a real sense. Even with the loose scientific definition of the term “scientific fact,” theories don’t become scientific facts.

Facts and theories are two different things. ~ Alina Bradford, What Is a Scientific Theory?

On the contrary, only observations repeatedly confirmed become known as “scientific facts,” and since we can’t observe a speculative explanation, theories can’t become scientific facts without redefining the term “scientific fact.” Scientists and social engineers are working on redefining this term in an attempt to confuse the issue; however, redefining terms doesn’t change reality.

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Evolution Lies

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When evolutionists define the word “evolution” too broadly, the broad definition makes it hard to tell the difference between reality and imagination. Made-up stories aren’t part of reality, but the broad definition blurs this distinction. The insanity lies in the inability to tell the difference between reality and make-believe.

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Is Evolution a Fact?

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And why do some people call evolution “a fact?” This common lie may have started with a broad definition of the word “evolution.” Evolutionists use this broad definition to confuse us by combining two distinct meanings into a single word, “evolution.”

Evolution: observed epigenetic [the on-off switches of genes that turn on various traits or turn them off] changes from generation to generation. [scientific fact]

Evolution: an unobserved story about a one-celled life-form turning into people over millions of years. [made-up story]

This way, the word “evolution” applies to two different things. Ungodly people have deceptively defined “evolution” as “change over time.” That combines these two opposing definitions. Combining those two opposing definitions into a single broad definition of “evolution,” the word means both a scientific fact and a made-up story. And since the word “evolution” has such a broad meaning that covers reality plus unreality, ungodly persuaders use the word to deceive the naïve. Reality is different from the made-up stuff of unreality, but persuaders still use the word “evolution” to mean both reality and made-up stuff.

To dissect this fallacious thinking, we’ll first consider what we can observe. We can see changes from one generation to another, so the repeated observation that changes occur is a scientific fact. Losses of information cause changes like beetles that have lost the ability to fly or species that can no longer procreate outside their species. Previously existing epigenetic information systems control traits of living organisms. Existing epigenetic information systems turn on certain traits. They turn others off. We observe changes as traits are turned on and off. Don’t get scared by the word “epigenetics.” You choose an application for your computer or your cell phone. That’s what epigenetic code does. It chooses different programs that have different results. These different results are the changes we see from generation to generation so you might have a smaller nose than your father or you might be taller. Evolutionists falsely credited these changes to the stories of evolutionism. However, the stories of evolutionism say something created new programs rather than choosing from existing programs.

The eight people on the ark who hadn’t lost information in their cells could produce all the races we now observe. The cats on the ark could produce all the cats, lions, and tigers we now observe. The dogs on the ark could produce all the dogs, wolves, and coyotes. So when “evolution” means these observed changes, we observe those changes. That part of the overly broad definition of evolution is scientific fact.

However, neither of these could cause the story of molecules turning into people. The word “evolution” can mean a story. The story says the genome changed from generation to generation. It kept changing until one-celled living organisms morphed into new, more complex kinds of living organisms. No one has observed this story. No one has observed the story of molecules turning into people over billions of years. It’s a story. Therefore, this part of evolutionism isn’t a scientific fact. So when “evolution” means a story about amoebas turning into people over millions of years, then the term “evolution” doesn’t mean a scientific fact. In this case, “evolution” means a made-up story since amoeba-to-humankind evolutionism isn’t even a good hypothesis.

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Evolutionism: A Wild Story

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Even though we can use theories, calling a wild story “a theory” assures failure in thinking. Meeting the definition of a scientific theory requires rigor, but the molecules-to-humankind evolution story doesn’t meet the test of a scientific theory. The story conflicts with observations. Scientists make up just-so stories to explain away those conflicts. Society gives the favored story special treatment because of its religious implications. We can’t even use the molecules-to-humankind evolution story as a hypothesis. It’s certainly not a scientific fact.

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Theories Have Value

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If we use scientific theories correctly, we don’t have to think irrationally. But if we dogmatically believe and defend them, then we can’t think rationally about them. Also, showing special favor to theories that serve our inner emotional desires is sure to end in insane decision-making. We often find this waste in government-funded projects that use other people’s money and resources to create imagined support for the favored theory.
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God is Love

God is Love.
Without Christ, there’s only fake love.
Love never violates God’s Law.
Love follows God’s patterns in Scripture
Christ lives within all who receive Him.
Christ is God’s Word.
He’s God’s Logos and Rhema, God’s Utterance.
God speaks. Christ is the Truth.
All who love Truth listen to Christ.
Christ speaks through Scripture and every means
of divine revelation mentioned in Scripture.
When Christ speaks, He never contradicts Scripture. Christ is the Wisdom.
Wisdom is Righteousness, Holiness, and Redemption.
Christ redeems us, sets us free from sin.
Righteousness is Christ
saying His Word and doing His Acts through us.
Holiness is Christ being formed in us
and purifiying us from the fleshly nature.
God hid ALL knowledge in Christ,
and Christ reveals reality to those
who sincerely ask Him.
If we’re sincere, we listen to Christ
without mixing His revelation with ungodly council.
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Evolution Delusion

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We’ll look at a story that’s called “a theory” and notice the theory can’t help us know anything, but it can confuse the difference between reality and made-up stuff. Consider a conversation in which an atheist claimed he had seen proof the stories of evolutionism happened. The atheist insisted scientists prove theories, but we still call them “theories” after scientists have proved them. A follower of Christ asked the atheist to provide a way to prove the stories of evolutionism happened. Then, the conversation went like this:

Sandy Sandbuilder: If you want to know about evolution, look up the many examples of speciation we have and get a working understanding of transitional species. Our natural history museum in Chicago is great for this. I hope one is near you.

Rocky Rockbuilder: Without assuming anything or telling any stories, can you show me how I can rationally reason from “many examples of speciation” to proving the stories of evolutionism happened?

Sandy: Yes. I can show you rationally how to go from a single-celled organism to humanity with zero assumptions, but it will take a while. Like all complex ideas, it’s not easy to explain, and I thought it was ridiculous until I understood it.

Sandy is committing an arcane-explanation fallacy. He claims we’re supposed to believe without proof because only a few people can understand the proof. Well, it’s not a claim yet. It’s a hint, an innuendo. He’ll make it plain shortly.

Rocky: That sounds like you’re about ready to tell me a story about how evolutionism happened. Stories aren’t proof, but they’re just stories or explanations. I would need to see it happen. Science works by observation and experience or experiment. Now, can you give me something I could do to observe or experience your claim that the stories of evolutionism happened? I would be glad to observe or experience it happening from beginning to end.

Sandy: Then you simply aren’t open to it. You’re not going to live for millions of years. You can observe speciation, but you reject it as “made up.” That’s what I meant by being open to new ideas.

Rocky: I don’t reject speciation, and speciation is hardly a new idea. However, you’re right if you’re saying I’m not open to made-up stuff. You’re telling me to shut up and believe without proof, or else I’m not open to new ideas. So far, you haven’t given any proof. It sounds like you have stories about evolutionism. Stories aren’t proof. I’m open to reality, but I don’t want to live in make-believe. Science depends on repeated testing and observation. You can’t test and observe stories.

Speciation doesn’t prove the big-bang-billions-of-years-molecules-to-humanity story happened. There’s no conflict between the biblical account of kinds of living things and the observed fact species exist.

Sandy: Those stories are tested and observed. That’s how science works.

Rocky: OK. If they’re tested and observed, all I’m asking you is for a way I can test and observe those stories as you claim I can. You’re asking me to just take your word for it without any proof, and you won’t tell me how I can test and observe the stories happening.

Sandy: Is there a natural history museum in your area? I never said take my word for anything.

Rocky: I’ve been through natural history museums, and all I get is stories about evolutionism complete with visual aids like creative drawings, paintings, and sculptures. It’s like looking at cartoons of Jesus in Sunday school or sculptures in some churches. You said, “Those stories are tested and observed. That’s how science works.” I can’t test or observe the stories of evolutionism happening in the natural history museum. I wouldn’t ask you to trust Jesus based on cartoons, sculptures, and paintings of Jesus. I would ask you to meet with Him, which you’ve repeatedly refused to do. Why do you ask me to accept stories and creative drawings? You’re not telling me you were gullible enough to accept stories and creative drawings as proof are you?

So if we’ve wondered why some persuaders say, “Evolution is a fact,” we’ve now seen how thinkers come to this error. They get confused. Insane as it is, they think stories, assumptions, concepts, mental frameworks, ideas, or other forms of made-up stuff are part of reality. This problem shows up as a thinker who confuses made-up stuff with reality writes a book or an article. And then a gullible person reads it. Next, a poor education system may teach the error. Students may hear a teacher make the false claim, “Evolution is a fact.” As a result, naïve students believe this lie. They dogmatically repeat it to others. They assimilate it into their worldviews.

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Confusing Stories with Reality

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Many thinkers confuse the stories of big bang, billions of years, and molecules to humanity with reality. Oddly enough, these same thinkers then use the stories of big bang, billions of years, and molecules to humanity as “proof” for claims of “no God.” However, theories can never prove anything because they’re just stories. They’re made-up stories with a fancy name. They’re speculative explanations of observations. Since the storytellers extend their stories beyond the observations, they can’t prove that their stories are true nor can they use their stories to prove anything. But storytellers sometimes give the false impression that their stories belong to reality. And yet these stories remain made-up stuff even if the storytellers try to objectify them and try to make them look like reality. By confusing theory with reality, they work to deceive us.

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