What is it possible to know about the origins of the universe, of life on earth and of the millions of species? ‘Headline thinkers’ have swallowed the lie that what science says about origins is ‘objective’ but what Christianity says is ‘subjective.’
That is untrue for two reasons. Firstly, all beliefs about the origins are religious in the sense that no human observed them, so they cannot be subjected to the scientific method. Secondly, science is never objective.
The subjective element in science is the scientist who arranges the experiment on the basis of his or her mental grid. That grid prejudices the way the scientist interprets observations and draws conclusions – a fact cleverly demonstrated in a series of experiments by Professor Thomas Kuhn.[1]
In the Chapter on Epistemology we documented appalling abuses by scientists who used the pretence of scientific ‘objectivity’ to promote rationalistic religious and political views. They got away with these abuses because of the cowardly silence of non-rationalistic scientists, examples of which included:
- Einstein’s attempt to cover up findings that contradicted his rationalistic religion (Click here for details)
- the way senior academics abuse their power to refuse publication of scientific papers and use ridicule, denial of tenure and other career threats to punish scientists whose findings contradict rationalism or its political objectives[2] (Click here for details)
- hacked emails from East Anglia University that revealed leading climate scientists falsifying reports and threatening the careers of opponents to promote the global warming scam. (Click here for details)
Also in the Epistemology Chapter we read Professor Jastrow’s exposé of the rationalistic religion that scientists pretend they don’t have (click to review). A key presupposition of that religion is methodological naturalism. It is the belief – impossible to prove – that nothing exists beyond the natural universe or, if it does, it does not affect the natural universe. That presupposition was imposed on science, not by its Christian founders, but by 19th century rationalists.
Today, naturalism has been invalidated by Information Science. The complex activity in every living cell is directed by a vast store of information. And because intelligent beings are the only known source of information, there is intelligence beyond and affecting the natural universe. The pathetic, fear-ridden silence of so many career-self-interested, non-rationalist scientists about this has been deafening.
[1] Thomas S. Kuhn, late emeritus professor of philosophy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, discusses these issues in his book “The Structure of Scientific Revolutions”, The University of Chicago Press, 1996, ISBN 0-226-45808-3.
[2] Carefully documented by Ben Stein in his DVD “Expelled – no intelligence allowed.”