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We’ve learned that differing worldviews are a major cause of disagreements between people. That’s because worldviews are fake-realities. Fake-realities seem more real than real reality, and the parts of reality that don’t fit our worldviews seem insane and unreal. For instance, worldviews account for different interpretations of the same Scripture by sincere Christians. In the same way, worldviews account for different interpretations of scientific observations by sincere scientists. And confirmation bias mixed with peer pressure makes group-held worldviews more powerful than individual worldviews. It’s easy to see why group-held worldviews control various groups of politicians, theologians, and scientists who use peer pressure to assure compliance and censorship.

And the children go to summer camp,

And then to the university,

And they all get put in boxes,

And they all come out the same. ~ Pete Seeger

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How did we get here? How much has Satan distorted our ability to think? Our hope is in Jesus. He is renewing our minds step by step.

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Though people with similar worldviews attract each other, every thinker has his or her own unique worldview. We subconsciously manufactured worldviews as concepts of all reality. We then subconsciously filtered our experiences and observations to match our worldviews. In other words, we each used our own unique worldview concept as a filter to sift out any parts of reality that didn’t fit into our particular worldviews.

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The more an assumption agrees with our inner biases, the more dogmatically we believe the assumption. Therefore, we still believe some assumptions even though they’re in disagreement with our observations or experiences. We cling to them despite the obvious conflict.

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God is real and reveals Himself to every person. Some people are in denial. God explains why they refuse to come to the Light and why they love darkness.

Ungodly thinkers can’t face the fact that their thoughts aren’t based on anything except fallacies. It’s difficult for them to see it. Those who follow Christ have gone through that same revelation where we realized our dependency on Christ, so we can relate. No one has anything they haven’t received. No one can gloat.

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In Real Faith & Reason Volume One in Trip 3, The Problem of Worldviews, we thoroughly covered the real source of assumptions and showed that they come out of worldviews. And we’ve seen how we formed these worldviews by believing our interpretations of previous experiences and observations. The experiences and observations themselves didn’t form our worldviews. Our interpretations of our experiences and observations formed the worldviews. And since our worldviews filtered and altered our interpretations, we created our worldviews by circular reasoning fallacies and confirmation bias.

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We are all affected by the great false prophet system of media and education. This complex system constantly bombards us with naturalism, materialism, humanism, and rationalism. Rationalism is the belief that the human mind can dream up truth without the benefit of either observation or divine revelation. These philosophies brought the great destruction of the French Revolution. And yet, people forget. What we hear repeatedly from many seemingly independent voices begins to sound “true” when it’s a lie.

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When we associate assumptions with facts, they more easily deceive us. When we try to guess beyond facts, we think assumptions come out of the facts. However, they don’t come out of the facts. Instead, they float over the facts.

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Notice the difference between assumptions and divine revelation.

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Even though we can’t base assumptions on previous experiences directly, we assume carefully. Our assumptions don’t conflict with something real in a way that’s obvious. Not usually. Our assumptions conform to what anyone can easily check. Here’s the problem. Assumptions also conform to worldviews. And worldviews seem real. Hardened worldviews even seem more real than what we can easily observe. These are Satan’s strongholds in our minds.

Therefore, we must concede that people don’t always assume in a vacuum or in a way we can easily prove false. However, just because we make assumptions that don’t conflict with observations, Scripture, or experiences in an obvious way, that doesn’t mean the assumptions have somehow become true.

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What God says is true. Assumptions consist of made-up stuff. When someone says the Big Bang Cosmology is fact, it’s OK to see if other cosmologies explain the observations as well or better. Those other cosmologies that work better expose the dogmatism of false science that insists on the Big Bang Cosmology. The danger is in thinking any cosmology is based on more than vapor. None of them can be proven. We can only prove they don’t conflict with what we observe or what God reveals. They are all laden with assumptions. There’s a vast gulf between assumptions and reality.

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More Complex than Assumption Based On Experience

Based on what we’ve just seen, we realize what’s happening here is more complex than just assumptions based on previous experiences. Bill Nye thinks his assumptions aren’t arbitrary, but all assumptions are arbitrary. He bases these assumptions on his arbitrary worldview. Why are worldviews arbitrary? All worldviews go beyond experience, observation, and divine revelation. Powerful social forces press for conformity in assumptions. This coercion from peer pressure makes Bill’s assumptions even more deceptive. Those pressing for conformity shun, exclude, or punish those who don’t conform. Those in control find ways to hurt anyone who doesn’t conform. Those who don’t conform lose money and opportunity. Then the fallacy of groupthink enters. It gives the illusion the assumptions have substance.

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Bill Nye admits he bases his thoughts on assumptions and still justifies this irrationality by saying he bases assumptions on experience. However, assumptions don’t come from experience directly as we’ve proved. While our experiences may be part of our thinking, we interpret our experiences by filtering them through our existing worldviews. Worldviews act like a thick veil to keep us from seeing reality directly. Only God can pull this veil away, and He does that whenever we yield to the Holy Spirit’s leading. Then, we automatically add the filtered impressions of experiences back into our worldviews as confirmation bias. As a result, our worldviews feel real. And confirmation bias reinforces the real-feel of the worldview. So when our assumptions and made-up stories come out of our worldviews, they seem more real than reality. We think our assumptions are real because our worldviews seem more real than reality. It’s deception. That’s why assumptions can seem obviously true. But all assumptions are illusions, and no assumptions are obviously true.

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But the question is whether we can use assumptions as a way of knowing. And we can’t. We try to avoid assuming because assuming is making up stuff and pretending what we made up is real. A chain of thought or a line of reasoning is only as strong as the weakest link. And assumptions are the weakest link we can get. But, we sometimes base our thinking on assumptions even though we try to avoid assuming. Because of the deceptive nature of worldviews from which assumptions come, we often don’t realize we’re assuming.

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UNGODLY THINKERS LOSE THE DISTINCTION BETWEEN ASSUMPTION AND OBSERVATION.

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“Then, by the way, the fundamental thing that we disagree on, Mr. Ham, is this nature of what you can prove to yourself. This is to say, when people make assumptions based on radiometric dating, when they make assumptions about the expanding universe, when they make assumptions about the rate at which genes change in populations of bacteria in laboratory growth media, they’re making assumptions based on previous experience. They’re not coming out of whole cloth.” ~ Bill Nye

“assumptions about the rate at which genes change in populations of bacteria in laboratory growth media”

Why would we need to assume this rate? We can test and observe the rate at which genes change in populations of bacteria, but we can’t test assumptions. When Bill makes a statement like this one, we can see that he’s confused about the nature of assumptions. Specifically, he lost the contrast between assumption and observation. Could it be that he no longer knows the difference? Or is he doing whatever it takes to “win” an argument even if it takes crafty flimflam? We’re not picking on Bill since we’re probably all guilty of flimflam sometimes because the fallen fleshly nature likes to “win” and hates to “lose.” Again, we can’t look into Bill’s mind to see why he made these claims, but we can see that he wasn’t speaking rationally.

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