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Observation or Speculation

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Since God reveals reality through observations and experiences, both direct observations and direct experiences are valuable. But observations and experiences perceive reality imperfectly because human senses are so limited. Not only so, but scientists often use hidden and presupposed assumptions to interpret observations and experiences. Two scientists can develop conflicting interpretations from the same observations and experiences. That’s what happened to Bill Nye and Ken Ham in their debates about creation versus evolution. In these cases, we know that one or both of them have unconsciously added made-up stuff as part of the interpretation.
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Teaching the Assumptions

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Assumptions in Science and Education
 
Scientists and students also fool themselves with the power of assumptions. With even a single assumption they can prove anything to themselves. Anything! And when an education system promotes ungodly thinking, it bases every conclusion on assumption. In such a system, how do students find the hidden assumptions? With so many claims hitting the students from all directions, they can’t expose all the hidden assumptions. They’re too busy trying to learn the material so that they can pass the classes. And how do students overcome their worldviews and inner biases? The schools teach thinking based on assumptions and discourage any other way of thinking. This lie continues to cloud students’ thinking long after they leave school.
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Scientism

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Recently, we’ve seen pseudo-science used for political purposes. Deep-state political operatives have networked their way into all government agencies, including those involved with science and medicine. They mouth words like “science” or “evidence” when no real science or evidence is present. Real science is practical and depends on repeated observations. The political hacks who have taken control of agencies like NIH, CDC, and FDA shut down the country and made many contradictory statements regarding masks. All of this was done with zero observation. They conducted falsified tests on therapeutic by testing them under conditions where they couldn’t possibly work and then stopping the use of them under conditions where they would have saved almost every life that was lost. They killed thousands of people for political gain.
 
Now, a political candidate is saying that he believes in science but that his opponent doesn’t believe in science. He’s calling the statement of this small group of political hacks “science.” It’s a neat trick from a politician who is a skilled liar.
 
However, science has been subject to politics for a long time. That’s how the people who control the funding have enforced crazy ideas like billions of years, evolutionism, and global-cooling-global-warming-climate-change with no real science.
 
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Scientific Facts aren’t Reality
 
Scientists define the word “fact” differently from the rest of the world. This special definition is an example of the idola fori fallacy that we discovered previously. To illustrate, scientists may call something a “scientific fact,” but later, another discovery shows us that the “scientific fact” never was a fact. The facts change suddenly. This change exposes something insane since reality doesn’t change. So true facts don’t change, but opinions do change, and opinions that are called “scientific facts” change. The term “scientific fact” creates a false impression if we forget that a scientific fact is more like a strongly held opinion than what we normally think of as a fact.
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God Reveals Reality

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Scientific Facts aren’t Reality
 
Scientists define the word “fact” differently from the rest of the world. This special definition is an example of the idola fori fallacy that we discovered previously. To illustrate, scientists may call something a “scientific fact,” but later, another discovery shows us that the “scientific fact” never was a fact. The facts change suddenly. This change exposes something insane since reality doesn’t change. So true facts don’t change, but opinions do change, and opinions that are called “scientific facts” change. The term “scientific fact” creates a false impression if we forget that a scientific fact is more like a strongly held opinion than what we normally think of as a fact.
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God Can Do What Science Can’t Do

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God can do what science can’t do. God can reveal reality through Scripture and every means of revelation He mentions in Scripture. Science will bring you closer to God if you bring God with you to help you understand science. Bring God with you to your work since God knows everything. He’ll open your eyes to discoveries you would never have noticed on your own. This isn’t just true for scientists. It’s true for moms, dads, and kids no matter what they’re doing. The deep respect for the Lord is the beginning of wisdom. All knowledge and wisdom are hidden in Christ Jesus.
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Against All Evidence

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Dr. James Tour is an accomplished scientist and a Christian. This video (https://youtu.be/-Gsa58Rm8Sk) is a talk that he gave to Syracuse University. He wanted to show what science can prove—what humanity can know from science. He could show, through science, that no one has yet proved abiogenesis and molecules-to-humanity evolutionism. He wasn’t able to show, through science, the impossibility of either of these, although they both are implausible He goes through the research that scientists have done on abiogenesis. None of the research had the purpose of showing that abiogenesis happened. None of the research tried to discover the odds of abiogenesis happening. We could say the same of the research on molecules-to-humanity evolutionism. And yet, those who control the message distort the research to claim that both of these stories, abiogenesis and molecules-to-humanity evolutionism, are probable even though they’re unlikely. From there, they imply that these stories happened.

Notice the limit of science. Science can show that scientists haven’t proved these stories. It can calculate the probability, which is low to the point of saying, “Given what we now know, it’s impossible.” It can only tell us what we can observe and test. It can’t give us a way to know everything. We might someday discover a way that would make these stories possible, but it doesn’t appear that anyone will ever be able to show that evolutionism is possible. But if there is any chance at all, and there’s always a chance for everything, science can’t prove that these stories are impossible. Notice that they aren’t even trying to prove that they happened. They just go from saying that no one can prove the stories impossible; therefore, they happened. How insane is that?

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All Scientific “Knowledge” is Tentative

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Ever learning but never coming to the knowledge of the truth. Truth is absolute by nature. All Truth is hidden in Christ Jesus. Jesus is the Truth.
 
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Tentative Knowledge versus True Knowledge
 
“Science thrives on the conviction that man does not have final knowledge about anything, and that any doctrine, no matter what its credentials, should be subject to inquiry and correction.” ~ L. W. Beck, Philosophic Inquiry
 
“One of the most common misconceptions concerns the so-called “scientific proofs.” Contrary to popular belief, there is no such thing as a scientific proof. . . . In contrast, all scientific knowledge is tentative and provisional, and nothing is final. There is no such thing as final proved knowledge in science.” ~ Satoshi Kanazawa, Psychology Today, Common misconceptions about science I: “Scientific proof”
 
“In science, ideas can never be completely proved or completely disproved.” ~ Berkely.edu, Understanding Science
 
“You may be reluctant to think that the bungling process of trial and error is tantamount to the scientific method, if only because science is so often shrouded in sophistication and jargon. Yet there is no fundamental difference.” ~ University of Texas at Austin, How Non-scientists use the Scientific Method
 
“The notion that we can find absolute and final truths is naive. If there are any underlying “truths” of nature, our models are just close approximations to them—useful descriptions which “work” by correctly predicting nature’s behavior.” ~ Donald E. Simanek, Lockhaven.edu, The Scientific Method
 
“It can even be shown that all theories, including the best, have the same probability, namely zero.” ~ Karl Popper, Conjectures & Refutations
 
There seems to be in all this a thoroughgoing epistemological relativism that makes the obtaining of truth impossible; and if scientific procedure cannot obtain truth, it can offer no absolute arguments against theism nor can it say truthfully that ‘the scientific method is the sole gateway to the whole region of knowledge.’ There is no science to which final appeal can be made; there are only scientists and their various theories. … No scientific or observational proof can be given for the uniformity of nature, and much less can experience demonstrate that ‘the scientific method is the sole gateway to the whole region of knowledge.’ On the contrary, a plausible analysis showed that science was incapable of arriving at any truth whatever. ~ Gordon Clark, A Christian View of Men and Things
 
Ungodly thinkers say they know about the tentative nature of current scientific opinion based on assumptions and dogmatically argue about it at the same time. They can even try to censor anyone who dares to question or test the sacred cows of current scientific opinion. They use irrational terms like “settled science.” Mechanisms of the establishment protect the sacred cows from any challenge. They coerce, persecute, and ridicule anyone who objectively examines the sacred cows of current scientific opinion. That’s protectionism. The system has serious problems. We’ll explore these problems as we continue our journey.
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False Gods: Science & Intellect

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To sum it up, evidence isn’t proof, inference isn’t sound deductive reasoning, support isn’t proof, and an inferred conclusion isn’t a known truth. We aren’t interested in an opinion confidently stated with false bravado. We prefer the truth since the truth will set us free.
 
The point is that there’s confusion about the word “proof.” On this journey, we recall that we’re defining both “proof” and “evidence” as “that which produces precise and accurate knowledge of truth with absolute certainty.” So when we say we know something, we mean that we have proof that gives us precise and accurate knowledge of truth with absolute certainty. However, when we discuss truth and evidence with others, we need to remember they’re probably defining these words as something much less conclusive.
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Science Has Limits

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Pseudo-science is often used in attempts to discredit the Bible. However, science doesn’t even have the capacity for truth or proof.

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Scientists imply that what they’re calling “evidence” is observation, but they include interpretations as part of the evidence. And they also include presuppositions, assumptions, and the biases of groupthink in those interpretations. They even talk about evidence supporting or countering conclusions rather than proving or disproving conclusions. Support isn’t the same as proof. It’s a much softer word with a vague meaning. As a result, the word “infer” can give the illusion of proving that a conclusion is true or false, but inferring does no such thing.

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Pseudo-science & Scientism

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A problem arises with science if we start to think science leads to knowledge or truth. Science is pragmatic and only points to what seems to work. It’s never definitive. In addition, the word “science” has become a way for evil people to manipulate the gullible, which often may include the majority of the population. They say the word, but there is no real science. Not realizing the nature of science and censoring free thought in science is a way to destroy scientific value. It started with the age of the earth. Silly ideas about the age of the earth were well-promoted and began to be falsely called “science.” The age-of-the-earth pseudo-science served an important function for the ungodly thinkers. It cast doubt on Scripture, which was an important objective. It wasn’t a scientific goal. It was a goal of the religion of ungodliness. Then, evolutionism came along. It’s a religious idea that’s scientifically impossible, but ungodly people called it “science.” And much of Christianity said, “We must follow the science.” Much of Christianity blindly believed the liars who promoted billions of years of molecules-to-humanity evolution–a complete cult of evolutionism. They called it “science,” but it wasn’t and isn’t science. Next, came global cooling, then global warming, then man-made climate change. It was all pseudo-science. Now, they ignore science and censor anyone who actually follows science regarding pandemics in general and Covid 19 in particular.
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Scientists often speak and write using the vague terms “inference” or “infer.” Inferring is concluding, but something’s not right about that. The word “inference” says that someone is reasoning to an inference, whatever “inference” means. Someone is reasoning, but is this person reasoning inductively and abductively? Neither inductive nor abductive reasoning can prove anything. Scientists infer using induction and abduction. Inferring is different from proving since the word “infer” means something closer to the word “conclude.” It’s a broader term than “deduce,” which implies sound deductive reasoning.
 
Is there a difference between concluding and inferring? Concluding must be conclusive, right? The word implies an end. It implies finality. The word “infer” doesn’t seem to have that finality. We can infer what’s untrue. It’s still irrational to do so, but when scientists say that they infer, they aren’t saying the same thing as when we say that we conclude. Notice how Dictionary.com defines “infer.”
 
to derive by reasoning; conclude or judge from premises or evidence: They inferred his displeasure from his cool tone of voice.
(of facts, circumstances, statements, etc.) to indicate or involve as a conclusion; lead to.
to guess; speculate; surmise.
to hint; imply; suggest.
 
Those four definitions provide a wide range for interpretation with the first two definitions being vague and the third and fourth being guessing and hinting. The first definition is the strongest, yet Dictionary.com didn’t specify the kind of reasoning. It could be irrational reasoning. The reasoning could be guessing, speculating, hinting, implying, or suggesting. Other dictionaries use the word “deduce,” but they don’t indicate whether that deductive reasoning is sound. Persuaders and speakers often use the words “conclude” and “infer” interchangeably. “Conclude” can mean simply to decide. It can mean using sound reasoning that starts with true premises and ends with a proved conclusion. Scientists, teachers, and politicians use this fuzzy language, which allows them to go off the track of truth without realizing it.
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