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Ontic Fallacy Final

Posted on March 3, 2021March 3, 2021 by Petros

“Ontological Observation as a Way of Knowing” from “Real Faith & Reason” (End of Series)

Ontic Fallacy : Thinking we can get knowledge through raw perceptions. Ignoring the filter of the human sensory and worldview limitations. Ignoring how this filter affects perception.

Imagining we can be objective. Thinking we can avoid bias.

Purely objective perception doesn’t happen. We just can’t get outside ourselves to be objective. Bias seems like reality so we have trouble telling the difference between reality and make-believe.

“Now, what we found is that public school textbooks present the evolutionary tree as ‘science’, but reject the Creation orchard as religion. However, observational science confirms the Creation orchard, so public school textbooks are rejecting observational science and imposing a naturalistic religion on students. The word evolution has been hijacked, using a bait and switch, to indoctrinate students to accept evolutionary belief as observational science.” ~ Ken Ham

Ken Ham pointed out the conflict between observation and the ungodly evolutionary tree. He exposed the way textbooks use the bait-and-switch fallacy to brainwash students. The ontic fallacy makes evolutionists believe they’re thinking and observing objectively. They don’t realize the shared evolutionistic worldview is a filter, and they aren’t aware they’re shoehorning observations into the evolutionary tree.

Of course, we’re just using evolution as an example. The ontic fallacy causes problems for us as humans. It limits us. It deceives us.

We see a group of diplomats accusing the President of the United States of wrong-doing, but they’re all just repeating the gossip of one man. When some elected representatives get to question this one diplomat, they ask him whether he’s actually heard these accusations from anyone or seen any evidence of these accusations. The diplomat says he has not. The elected representative tells the diplomat he has nothing. The diplomat replied, “Other than my presumption!” The elected representative says, “Which is nothing.” The diplomat looks shocked to find out his presumption isn’t the same thing as reality. That’s the ontic fallacy at work.

The same thing happens whether observing political activities, parts of nature, or the Bible. One man had the idea. He thought the Holy Spirit is not God. He thought he saw that in the Bible. When challenged about his interpretation of the Bible, he said he doesn’t interpret the Bible. He just reads it as it is. That’s the ontic fallacy.

Fortunately, we have a way we can bypass our human limitations, but only God can do it. God bypasses human limitations through divine revelation, so the Almighty God overcomes the ontic fallacy. He alone can overcome our human inability to find the truth. He overcomes our weakness when we submit to the Holy Spirit. Then He pulls back the fleshly veil so we can see. We may wish this would happen all at once, but He leads us step by step.

God also uses the body of Christ to keep us from deceiving ourselves. Humility is in order. We must be willing to accept correction from our brothers and sisters. No one has a superior pipeline into the mind of God. Many have thought God given them a revelation when God didn’t tell them anything. We have the historical examples of Roger Williams, Anne Hutchinson, and many others who caused damage and defamed anyone who disagreed with their “revelations.” God built wonderful safety into the order and pattern we find in Scripture. God is restoring that order and pattern, but we’re used to the unscriptural systems we’ve seen all our lives. In theological disputes, we should never be so sure of ourselves that we’re unwilling to allow the Holy Spirit to correct us. Often, the Holy Spirit will speak to us through a brother or sister.

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Ontic Fallacy Causes Disconnect

Posted on March 2, 2021March 2, 2021 by Petros

Continuing “Ontological Observation as a Way of Knowing” from “Real Faith & Reason”

Ontic Fallacy : Thinking we can get knowledge through raw perceptions. Ignoring the filter of the human sensory and worldview limitations. Ignoring how this filter affects perception.

Imagining we can be objective. Thinking we can avoid bias.

In contrast to evolutionistic claims, real observations show kinds of living organisms at the level of families and only show variations within the kinds. For instance, we find variations within the cat kind, but we find no examples of cats turning into non-cats. And yet some people think they see ontological evidence for these stories about supposed past events when they only see a vision that comes out of their own deceitful minds.

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They Became Fools

Posted on March 1, 2021March 1, 2021 by Petros

Since only God sees all and knows all, only God can reveal truth.

Evolutionists often claim to observe the stories of evolutionism. However, they can’t observe the stories of evolutionism. They can’t observe molecules turning into people. They can’t observe billions of years. They can’t observe big bangs forming the universe. They can’t observe life springing from non-life. They can’t observe an evolutionary tree. They tell us about the evolutionary tree of life. And yet, they only show us an imagined concept in a drawing, animation, chart, or presentation. We wouldn’t think anyone would believe the stories, but evolutionists have hypnotized many. Some people believe they’ve seen this tree. They’ve only seen people telling stories and presenting evidence of possibility while hiding assumptions and evidence of impossibility.

The ontic fallacy causes blindness and dogmatism. Blindness grows into boldness. Then people think they see proof when they don’t see proof. Many people think they see the unobservable past. And when they realize they’re just making up the whole illusion, they justify making up stories and calling the stories “observations.”

Evolutionists and scientists commit the ontic fallacy. Theologians and philosophers do it. This is a human weakness, and we all deceive ourselves sometimes. We confuse make-believe with reality when we decide what to believe. We do it when watching the news, reading, or talking with friends. This problem is everywhere. There’s only one solution to it. Here’s the solution. We need to stop adding to what God tells us and listen intently to Him. We need to stop leaning on our brute-beast minds and worldviews.

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We Want the Truth

Posted on February 28, 2021February 28, 2021 by Petros

We’re not interested in anything unreal. We don’t want anything that depends on assumptions to believe it. No matter how carefully storytellers craft their stories, we’re not interested in creative stories. On the contrary, we’re interested in reality but not make-believe. That means we can’t prove anything of interest using assumptions, and we must prove everything of interest using sound deductive logic. For sound deductive logic, we need a true premise or proof. And a true premise or proof could only come one of two sources. We could receive divine revelation. We could get outside ourselves and see reality as it is. Since we can’t get outside ourselves, that leaves divine revelation. So we need the Holy Spirit to understand our observations and experiences.

Many scientists want to keep God out of science. They reject God. They rely on non-existent human ontological observation. They rely on pure, unbiased thinking, which is impossible. They continually deceive themselves using the ontic fallacy. They don’t even try to avoid assumptions, hypotheses, or theories. And they don’t even try to avoid dogmatically defending “settled science” and groupthink confirmation bias. Nor do ungodly scientists even try to stick strictly to observations. Instead, they try to justify conclusions that go beyond the observations. That means they’re adding uncheckable made-up stuff to the observations. And they’re calling the made-up stuff “science.” They say their thinking is obvious and makes perfect sense.

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Lack of Evidence

Posted on February 27, 2021February 27, 2021 by Petros

A professor was teaching a course on logic and making his point. “It’s OK to believe in God as long as you realize it’s irrational to do so since belief in God isn’t based on sound logic and ontological observation.” At this point, a middle-aged man asked, “What about things we call ‘science’ that lack proof?” Surprised, the professor asked, “What things?” “Evolution, for instance,” replied the middle-aged man. Mildly irritated, the professor said, “There’s absolute proof for evolution.” So the middle-aged man asked, “Do you mean proof in the form of sound deductive logic and ontological observation without assuming anything?” “Absolutely,” said the professor.

Then the middle-aged man asked if the professor could show him this proof. The professor wanted to show his proof. He claimed he was reasoning from sound deductive logic and ontological observation. He claimed he wasn’t making any assumptions. So he rushed three papers by Stephen Jay Gould to the middle-aged man. The middle-aged man read the papers. All the articles followed the same logic:

We have fossils.
We can make up creative stories about these fossils.
Based on this “scientific evidence,” we know evolution happened.

The middle-aged man told the professor that when he was raising his children, the children often made-up creative stories. And yet. he never called the creative stories “scientific evidence.” At that, the professor became angry and accused the middle-aged man of scoffing. That’s when the middle-aged man reminded the professor of the professor’s claim. The professor had claimed he would prove evolution using sound deductive logic and observation without any assumptions. The professor answered, “We can’t prove anything of interest using sound deductive logic and ontological observation without assumptions.”

The professor can’t prove his final claim without making assumptions. His final claim is a bare claim based on the limits of godless thinking. It’s a claim from the land of make-believe. It doesn’t apply to those who know Christ. We know Christ exists because Christ reveals Himself to us. We know the biblical account is true because Christ reveals this fact to us. Anyone can verify this by getting to know Jesus Christ. All who seek Him find Him. He leads, teaches, and corrects all who follow Him.

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Ontic Fallacy Continued

Posted on February 26, 2021February 26, 2021 by Petros

Ontological Observation as a Way of Knowing continued

We might falsely assume humans can think and observe ontologically. We forget our limits. We forget depending on our fallen human minds and senses is living at the level of a brute beast. Sometimes, we put convincing labels on our over-confidence. We call our over-confidence “objective observation” or “being unbiased.” While objective thinking sounds good in theory, it doesn’t happen in practice. Raw perception is a myth. We can’t turn off our filters. Only the power of the Almighty God can overcome this problem.

Then Jesus said to those Jews who believed Him, “If you abide in My word, you are My disciples indeed. And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.” . . . Jesus answered them, “Most assuredly, I say to you, whoever commits sin is a slave of sin. And a slave does not abide in the house forever, but a son abides forever. Therefore if the Son makes you free, you shall be free indeed. ~ John 8:31-32 & 34-36 New King James Version

Christ will set us free, but freedom isn’t instantly complete. We must listen to His voice and yield to His Spirit. We must abide in His presence listening to what He is telling us as He leads, teaches, and corrects us. The flesh must die. The Holy Spirit must form Christ in us. The truth will make us free from the sinful nature that holds us as slaves right now. First Peter 3:15 says we must purify the Lord Jesus Christ in our hearts, and Matthew 5:8 says the pure in heart will see God.

Until then, our senses can’t provide absolutely accurate impressions, nor can they sense everything. Besides, our worldviews filter and distort our perceptions.

Christ is our Wisdom. All Wisdom and Knowledge is hidden in the Father and Christ. God is Love. Christ is our Righteousness. Love fulfills the whole Law of God. Though we can’t self-generate Love or Righteousness, God gives it freely if we ask.

attaining to all riches of the full assurance of understanding, to the knowledge of the mystery of God, both of the Father and of Christ, in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge. Colossians 2:2b-3

There is no knowledge or wisdom outside of Christ. It’s hidden. Mystery is what is hidden. And yet, God promises to reveal it to us.

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Ontic Fallacy

Posted on February 25, 2021February 25, 2021 by Petros

Christ is our Wisdom. (1 Cor. 1:30) All Wisdom and Knowledge is hidden in the Father and Christ. God is Love. Christ is our Righteousness. Love fulfills the whole Law of God. Though we can’t self-generate Love or Righteousness, God gives it freely if we ask.

attaining to all riches of the full assurance of understanding, to the knowledge of the mystery of God, both of the Father and of Christ, in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge. Colossians 2:2b-3

There is no knowledge or wisdom outside of Christ. It’s hidden. Mystery is what is hidden. And yet, God promises to reveal it to us.

Ontological Observation as a Way of Knowing

Ontology is a mythical concept. Ontology imagines we can be objective. It imagines a pure mind without bias. However, purely objective perception doesn’t happen. In theory, ontology bypasses the weakness of the senses, influences of culture, worldview, and all other deceptions. Ontology is humanly impossible.

Ontic Fallacy : Thinking we can get knowledge through raw perceptions. Ignoring the filter of the human sensory and worldview limitations. Ignoring how this filter affects perception.

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Two Fallacies

Posted on February 24, 2021February 24, 2021 by Petros

On the other hand, another part of this “body of knowledge” is worse than useless. Notice the contrast between what we can and cannot test. We can’t test the results of made-up stories about a supposed history since the story doesn’t produce anything to test. Even though scientists record the results of many experiments, they filter these results through the assumptions and stories of a small group of people who consider themselves elite. This group imposes their assumptions and stories on everyone else. This group rigged this part of the “body of knowledge.” They made it complex. They rigged it with confirmation bias and censorship. This rigged system deceives many people. Once those people fall for the deception, they become part of the problem. They didn’t think of a rigged system when they heard the word “science.” And yet, most people deceptively call this rigged system “science.” …

The articles in the scientific journals often create a fog similar to Jorge Luis Borges’ short story “The Library of Babel.” While many of the articles are pure made-up stuff and no truth, many other articles contain truth mixed with made-up stuff. So the trouble isn’t the lack of truth. Rather, we can’t tell the difference between truth and fabrication since the truth gets lost in vast quantities of gibberish. The gibberish consists of all the opinions, assumptions, stories, ideas, theories, drawings, explanations, or other forms of made-up stuff. This gibberish is gibberish because it goes beyond the observations. Scientists commonly write in assumptive language. They imbed hidden assumptions into scientific papers. They presuppose sacred-cow stories. The scientific papers often read more like propaganda than science. So opinions, assumptions, stories, and theories of scientists hide the true body of knowledge. The true body of knowledge consists of all the recorded observations. That’s why we will contrast the fake body of knowledge against the real body of knowledge. The fake body of knowledge consists of strongly stated opinions, information filtering, selective recording of evidence, and irrational conclusions. The real body of knowledge doesn’t go beyond what’s known. It sticks to the facts and observations without going beyond them.

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Worshiping Pseudoscience

Posted on February 23, 2021February 23, 2021 by Petros

We will have to stop worshiping pseudoscience and get back to facts and truth. Jesus Christ reveals truth and facts. Godless human thinking can’t find truth or facts. God hid all wisdom in Christ. Useful knowledge and science come from God.

Examples of Useful Knowledge:

Properties of various gases
Maximum stress and deflection of beams
Heat transfer through insulating materials
Material characteristics like strength, malleability, and melting point
Steam piping formulas
Gas line capacities
Data tables for physical chemistry
Laws of mass and energy

We find this data in databases and reference texts, and it allows us to make accurate predictions of what will happen if we take a certain action. With this data, we can look up the strength of I-beams and lumber so we can build an eight-story building. We know the properties of steel and plastic that allow us to build a new automotive steering system. We can know about gravity, mass, and physics so we can launch a communications satellite into orbit. We can know how electricity acts and about all the various electronic components, so we can build a smartphone. This data isn’t like the stories about the distant past. This knowledge comes when we experiment and test results. And we can test the products that come from this knowledge. The building stands or it doesn’t. The steering works or it doesn’t. The satellite goes into the proper orbit, or it doesn’t. The smartphone works, or it doesn’t. We can test these.

On the other hand, another part of this “body of knowledge” is worse than useless. Notice the contrast between what we can and cannot test. We can’t test the results of made-up stories about a supposed history since the story doesn’t produce anything to test. Even though scientists record the results of many experiments, they filter these results through the assumptions and stories of a small group of people who consider themselves elite. This group imposes their assumptions and stories on everyone else. This group rigged this part of the “body of knowledge.” They made it complex. They rigged it with confirmation bias and censorship. This rigged system deceives many people. Once those people fall for the deception, they become part of the problem. They’re deceived because they didn’t think of a rigged system when they heard the word “science.” And yet, most people deceptively call this rigged system “science.”

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