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With respect to its great contributions to
society, I think it is important to make a case that science is
really affecting society more like a religion now than a field of study
or a resource base of useful information.
Many everyday people do not understand it at all and accept ALL its
teachings on faith. Science is supposed to be a tool and a path of study
for the benefit of mankind and it is. I love Science and greatly appreciate it's
benefits. I feel strongly that many scientists are heroes and deserve honorable
mention and some truly deserve places of great honor in the hallowed
halls of history. Breakthroughs in medical science are saving lives
everyday in ways undreamed of just to name only one of so many valuable fields.
Unfortunately some scientists have also been criminals or have brought things into the world we all
know about that we would have been better off without such as
thermonuclear weapons and pollution. I believe it has also become things
it should never have become. I shall briefly try to explain what I have
seen that has made me feel that science is really affecting society more
like a religion now than a field of study.
The major criticism of science with regards to The Bible has
been that it requires a leap of faith to believe that GOD created the
world, yet Science also has several leaps of faith of it's own. The
Big Bang theory cannot be proven as world renowned cosmologist Steven
Hawking has stated and, if it cannot be proven - believing in it - in
Hawking's own words requires a "Leap of Faith".
Until a
theory is proven in a lab or in the field, it is Philosophy, not Physics.
EVOLUTION IS NOT A LAW OF SCIENCE. Darwin's Theory of Evolution
was proposed in 1859 and almost a hundred and fifty years later it has
still never achieved the status of a Law of Science.
This is because of the Missing Link. There is no
proof of a
link between man
and ape, hence the term "The missing link". This blind
faith in Evolution has
been taught with religious dogmatism in the public schools for generations and is still merely a theory. The
Theory
of Evolution, not the Law of Evolution is a mere
UNPROVEN hypothesis, which the dictionary defines as "a
mere assumption or guess or a proposition, or a group of proposals,
offered as an explanation for the occurrence of some specified group of
phenomena."
Yet this "mere assumption or guess"
is taught to children in public schools and
young adults in colleges as if it HAD been proven beyond any doubt.
It was once a Law
of Science that the atom was the irreducible
particle of matter. At Alamogordo, New Mexico in 1945 the atom was split
and the atomic bomb explosion in the desert blasted that Law of
Science out of existence.
Now, if a Law of Science is so unreliable, I ask you,
why is a mere theory like Evolution regarded
so highly? Simple. It is about political control, not about truth.
The
Missing Link
In
1912 A.D. a respectable geologist named Arthur S. Woodward and a lawyer
named Charles Dawson offered their new “fossil discovery” to the London
Geological Society. The “artifacts” included a thick portion of
a human skull, a fragment of an ape-like jaw, some animal remains and some
primitive stone tools. These items found in southern England in a place
called Piltdown were estimated to be 500,000 years old.
For
40 years the remains were accepted by the academic community as an
important part of our evolutionary development. Piltdown
Man was declared genuine and called the “missing
link” between apes and man by important scientists of the time.
Because of this newfound “proof” men of God were openly ridiculed as
ignorant and improperly educated. Piltdown man was debunked four decades
later by chemical tests proving the jaw and skull were not the same age,
nor very old. It was a DELIBERATE fake. The
bones had been chemically treated and thoroughly stained to make
them appear prehistoric. Recognizable anatomical features
were broken off and filed down.
Why
did this fraud by lawyer Charles Dawson fool the experts? For many
reasons, but it was never seriously questioned because the scientists of
the time were delighted by the way it validated their evolutionist
beliefs. For more details of the debunking read: ”The Piltdown
Forgery” by J.S. Weiner, the classic account of the most famous and
successful hoax in science. The new and revised 2002 edition is commonly
available. Today, the term “Piltdown” is a term of ridicule, used to
label fraudulent research, but the impact on the lives of billions of
trusting people has had powerful political implications to this day.
The prover proves what
the thinker thinks and prejudice and political power seem
more important than the truth or the consistent practice of the scientific
method. If truth were important to them, they would use the scientific
method when criticizing The Bible but they do not. The
scientific method requires going to the source. Yet for these famous
disparagements they use the King James version instead of the original
Hebrew. Translated in 1611 by non-Christian King James of England for
political reasons the K.J.V. is one of the Colossal monuments of English
Prose. The King James Translation is not at all accurate enough to use as
the sole source for the defense of the Biblical Text.
Consider this example: One of the greatest conflicts between Science and
the Bible is the teaching that the world was created in six solar days of
24 hours each. The word " yom" in the source, the
original Hebrew text, which was translated as "Solar Day" had 56
other choices. Modern English has more than 60,000 words. Biblical Hebrew
had 3,000. The average English vocabulary has 6,000. My favorite choice of
the 56 other options:" an unimaginably long but complete period of
time" harmonizes with science perfectly. Another choice is:
"time itself". So as we can see, going to the source and using
the Scientific Method brings very different results than not going
to the source.
Getting past this, the order in which life appeared was identical to the
theory of evolution's claims in the Book of Genesis, leaving us to discuss
the stars, the next main source of conflict between Science and the Bible.
The Hebrew text says "a swaddling band around the Earth dissolved,
revealing the stars. The Prover proves what the thinker thinks. Here's a
fun thought - What if GOD is in control of evolution? What if it's his
hobby? What if there is really no conflict between Science and Religion?
The scientists cannot disprove the existence of GOD any more than they can
prove the Big Bang happened.
Albert Einstein saw no conflict between science
and religion. Like Galileo, Newton and other immortal greats of science
before him, Einstein believed in GOD.
Therefore, I present to you this idea: Modern Scientific beliefs are based
upon a leap of faith in the big bang theory. It has become a belief system
based on faith and therefore another form of religion. Scientists,
like priests can explain their beliefs but the everyday people accept it
all on faith. Scientists and doctors are the priests of this new religion,
getting angry and crying "heresy" when anyone respectfully disagrees
with them. I once had one of my supervisors in the UT anthropology
department explain to me for three hours on a research expedition in
mathematical terms how something could have ALWAYS existed, needing no
beginning point. When we agreed that the math was good he then made a
COLOSSAL leap of faith, saying "This proves the Universe has always
existed and there is no GOD." In one second I countered;" I
could just as easily jump to the conclusion that this proves the existence
of an eternal GOD." It is this "jumping to conclusions" or
as Steven Hawking put it; "making leaps of faith." that
infuses philosophy with their physics. Then there is the infusion of
politics; a perfect example is
The
Myth of Carbon 14 dating:
Educated
people
know
that carbon
14 dating
is totally irrelevant to the theory of evolution. Scientists never state
that carbon 14 dating offers proof for the theory of evolution. Ignorant
evolutionists, however, believe carbon 14 dating proves the theory of
evolution, and stubbornly make that claim based on faith in what they were
told in our learning institutions. They were DELIBERATELY lied to
to gain POLITICAL POWER. I will explain; Carbon 14 dating is ONLY reliable
for five thousand years as even its creator himself admitted in 1972.
Carbon 14 or Radiocarbon Dating was first devised in 1949 by Dr. Willard Libby.
It is based on the rate of decay of carbon 14 or its "half-life"
of 5730 years. This method offers reliable dates up to 5,000 years ago, but its results
require correction since Dr. Libby's belief that the levels of carbon-14
in the atmosphere were identical through the ages has long since been disproved.
Volcanoes and floods for example skew the results to the point where
guesswork or leaps of faith are required even in dating organic material
from historic times. Dr. Libby once expressed
his shock when he found that radio carbon dates for human artifacts
extended back only 5000 years and older dates were found to be unreliable.
[W.F.Libby,
`Radiocarbon Dating', (Chicago, 1952), pp. 4-9] [CRSQ,
1972, 9:3, p. 157]
By
this time tens of thousands of C-14 dates had been published from tests in
laboratories around the world. The textbooks and curriculums have yet to
be revised. Instead, a MYTH is being taught in our schools. There
are exciting new methods but wild guesses about the amount of Carbon 14 in
the atmosphere do not PROVE anything. Believers in GOD are called foolish
and ignorant on the political strength of this deliberate lie that Carbon
14 dating proves evolution.
The gross disrespect and intolerance I have seen of certain members of the
scientific and academic communities and their disciples toward anyone who disagrees with them is just
as arrogant and abusive as racial, sexual, religious, or any other kind of
prejudice.
Here's a great
example: Around 1910 in educated circles it was considered a mark of
ignorance to believe the Biblical record. There was little scientific
evidence available then to support the Bible's claims and academic circles
decided that was the end of the matter and as the decades moved on, the
scientific and academic communities stubbornly ignored tidal waves
of new SCIENTIFIC evidence. One excellent example is in what the Bible
says about Abraham. In the early 20th century experts in the field
of archaeology insisted that no civilization even existed in UR of the
Chaldeans when the Bible records that Abraham lived there. On the basis
that no evidence was currently available they declared Abraham a
mythical character.
20th century evidence however has proven beyond any question the existence
of an advanced civilization in UR of the Chaldeans during the 21st and
20th centuries B.C.-That was Abraham's day! Abraham's historicity is also
confirmed by ancient inscriptions that bear the names of almost very town
mentioned in Ch. 12-14 of Genesis and one even has his father's name.
Archeological discoveries also show these towns were in existence until
about 2,000 B.C.- but not later!
No longer can the
Bible's critics get away with accusing us of being naive or foolish today
when we believe what the Bible says about Abraham like they used to in the
20th century.
This is critical to
the belief systems of the world's great monotheistic religions Islam,
Judaism and Christianity who all claim ascendancy from Abraham. Why isn't
this commonly taught in schools? Many scientific professionals openly
abuse the authority of their positions to push their personal beliefs
and ignore the confirmed scientific data to hold on to political power. Other
Biblical confirmations from modern Archaeology include: Date and manner of
Jericho's fall, The exodus from Egypt, Major characters from the book of
Daniel and many others. The SCIENTIFIC proof is all there waiting for you
if you take the time to look it up.
Certain scientists and academics like to act like they know everything about the origins of the
Earth. They don't. Many of our long taught ideas about planetary science
have recently been proven completely wrong. Did you know that The Gas
Giants on the outside of our solar system and the surface of the Planet
Venus are DRASTICALLY different than what I was authoritatively taught
about them as a boy in school? If they
can't even tell us reliably how the solar system is today how can we rely
on their ideas about its distant unobservable origins? Yet
even in the face of constantly changing SCIENTIFIC evidence most
scientists are prone to UTTER DOGMATISM about their belief system. Science
is supposed to be the sum of the best knowledge we have at the time - incomplete but
always learning, always growing- but sometimes making serious mistakes.
Why admit things were COMPLETELY wrong about planetary science within the
solar system but NEVER MENTION the discovery of
the unreliability of Carbon 14 dating or the discovery of archaeological
evidence of Abraham being a historical figure?
Simple. There is no danger to the foundation of the belief system of this
new religion or it's social and political power base.
Mankind's only hope for continued survival on this
planet is to learn to tolerate each others differences and live in peace
with one another and in harmony with the environment. We're all in the
same boat...
I do not believe that scientists should be
exempt from this challenge to be tolerant, since they created the
very things that could well destroy us, such as thermonuclear weapons
& pollution.
We all have a
lot of work to do if we are to survive. I write this in defense of my
faith and of the faiths of others which have been disparaged by these
attacks on the sacred writings of the world's great religions...If
we're going to have a better world we're going to need both better leaders
and better citizens.
I personally
believe that any belief in a higher power that must be answered to
makes us better citizens than if we believed that we are the ultimate life
form in the Universe.
~ H D Johnson 2007
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