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For every person, God wrote His laws on every heart, on the innermost mind of every person who lives. (Romans 1:32) He hasn’t told us exactly what He wrote on every heart, but He has told us about some of what He wrote there. For example, everyone has a conscience. The conscience knows certain acts are wrong. Babies know certain things at birth. They know how to breathe and how to smile. That knowledge comes from God. This is truth we receive naturally from God. By “naturally,” we mean everyone receives this divine spiritual impartation of truth without any effort.

Beyond the natural gift of knowledge, Christ is the Light Who lights every person who comes into the world. He is the Logos or Utterance Who shines onto every person from the outside in. (John 1:9) Those who love Light are drawn toward Christ. Those who desire to do evil want their deeds hidden in darkness. They want to do their own will rather than the will of Christ. That is evil. (John 3:19-20)

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We can stand in God’s presence at all times. The term “stand in God’s presence” means to be awake and aware of His presence and listening for His voice. God is always present with every person who lives, but the Light of His Truth comes to us in different ways.

Ungodly thinkers can only react to their senses like brute beasts. Animals from earthworms to pigs and from lizards to elephants react to their senses. God provided these senses for survival, but reacting to those senses doesn’t constitute rational thought. This brute-beast existence is pragmatic. It can only find out what works. It can’t find out what’s true. And yet, God gives us this brute-beast ability to react to our senses. God gives it so we can survive long enough to seek God and find Him.

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God makes predictions. He makes predictions in the Bible, but He’ll also tell us what will work and what won’t work. ^{(Psalm 48:14, Psalm 143:10, Romans 12:2)} If we stand in His presence, He can guide every aspect of our lives and show us things we never knew. ^{(Jeremiah 33:3)} We might say that we can predict the outcome of our actions intuitively. We need to realize that God speaks to us through intuition. We may like to take the glory for ourselves when things work out, but the glory all belongs to God. God also speaks through Scripture and every means of divine revelation and guidance mentioned in Scripture.

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Satan has been around a long time and is willing to help those who will follow him. He imparts a kind of wisdom to his followers that doesn’t come from above but is earthly, unspiritual, and demonic. ^{(James 3:15)} He’s also the father of all lies. ^{(John 8:44)} If we choose to listen to the demonic, the so-called “knowledge” is fake.

The human mind has the capacity to use imagination, but imagination makes up stuff and makes made-up stuff seem real. That’s the definition of insanity. The human mind is deceitful and desperately wicked beyond our ability to discern or understand. ^{(Jeremiah 17:9)} If we choose to listen to human rationalizations, the so-called “knowledge” is pseudo-knowledge.

God can give us a vision out of His infinite knowledge and wisdom. ^{(Jeremiah 23:16, Numbers 12:6, Acts 18:9-10, Acts 9:10-12, Romans 8:14, Colossians 3:1-2)} He reveals Himself, His nature, our calling, who we are in Him, what is and is not the body of Christ, how we fit into that body, and what we are to do right now. God knows all things and cannot lie. ^{(Hebrews 4:13, Numbers 233:19, Titus 1:2, Hebrews 6:18)} All wisdom, knowledge, understanding, and righteousness are hidden in Christ. ^{(Colossians 2:2-3, 1 Corinthians 1:30, Proverbs 2:6)} If we choose to listen to God, God reveals precise and accurate knowledge.

In every situation, we have a choice. In our mundane tasks around the home, we have the choice. In conversations, we can choose which of these three we’re going to follow: God, human minds, or demons. ^{(Joshua 24:15, Matthew 7:13-14, Isaiah 30:21, Philippians 4:8, Galatians 6:7-8, Joel 3:14)} Christ wants close fellowship with us. ^{(John 17:21-23, John 14:23)} He wants us to be in His presence at all times. ^{(Psalm 24:3-4, Ephesians 2:18, Ephesians 3:12, Hebrews 10:19, 1 John 4:12, John 15:9)}  Why would we refuse to acknowledge Him and give Him the glory? ^{(Proverbs 3:6, Romans 1:21)}

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All knowledge and wisdom are hidden in Christ Jesus.

Continuing our series of quotes about sources of knowledge, the following focuses on predictability as a source of knowledge. We found the stories of evolutionism don’t successfully predict, but the Biblical accounts do successfully predict. However, the Bible can be interpreted  by the same three authorities listed below. Two are unreliable to say the least.

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Predictability is a claim of knowledge. Where did the knowledge come from? Is it knowledge of truth or just pseudo-knowledge? Is it fake? Is it untruth posing as truth? As to where knowledge comes from, we can choose from these three: divine revelation, human imagination, or demonic influence.

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You may ask in your heart, “How can we recognize a message that the LORD has not spoken?” When a prophet speaks in the name of the LORD and the message does not come to pass or come true, that is a message the LORD has not spoken. The prophet has spoken presumptuously. Do not be afraid of him. ~ Deuteronomy 18:21 & 22

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When scientists want a certain hypothesis to be true, they fall into motivated thinking. They test the hypothesis, but it fails the test. It doesn’t meet the prediction. So they make up stories to hide the failure. These stories are called just-so stories or rescuing hypotheses. Also, motivated thinkers may use political pressure and litigation to limit what schools can teach. They may keep schools from telling the truth about the failed tests. They may get the schools to tell their just-so stories. They may glorify the broken hypothesis and claim it’s a scientific theory. In other words, motivated thinkers can fake predictability.

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Misunderstanding:

“A scientist should never be looking for ways to confirm his belief but instead should always be looking for ways to disprove his belief. When you cannot find any then you know it’s confirmed true fact.”

That was an irrational comment on an Internet discussion group, and it’s wrong. The first part is right. The second part is wrong. A scientific fact is something observed repeatedly without any exceptions like gravity pulling objects to the ground at 33 feet per second per second. For scientific facts, we could find an exception tomorrow. A true fact goes beyond a scientific fact. A true fact is reality itself.

When we cannot find a way to disprove our belief, that just means we haven’t yet found a way to disprove our belief. We could find that way tomorrow. Alternatively, someone else may have already found a way to disprove it, but that way never got published. It certainly can’t be a scientific fact since it’s not an observation. It’s a belief. It’s a hypothesis. It’s a hunch.

If scientists make other predictions, they may test those predictions. They continue to test predictions. No predictions fail. They classify the hypothesis as a scientific theory. That doesn’t prove the theory is accurate. The theory still goes beyond what scientists have observed. It just proves the theory may be useful for further tests. Those tests might even lead scientists and engineers to develop useful products. However, if we can develop useful products because of those tests, that doesn’t prove the theory is true. The theory is still theoretical. We just found something that works.

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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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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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