Season 3 Podcast 244, “What is Real, Pt 12, Implications of the Assumptions of Science” 3
“What is Real, Pt 12, Implications of the Assumptions of Science” 3
In previous podcasts, we discussed the following false assumptions of theoretical science:
· Assumption One: There is no intelligent design and no intelligent designer.
· Assumption Two: Life was created by accident.
· Assumption Three: Man is nothing but an accidental collocation of atoms.
· Assumption Four: We live in an accidental universe.
In this podcast, we shall add the following false assumption of theoretical science.
· Assumption Five: Man is an animal, and man is a machine; thus has no freewill.
In the last podcast, using the first four assumptions above, we focused on the fallacy of probability. In this podcast, using the Fifth Assumption, we shall focus on false analogies and freewill. The opposite of determinism is freewill. By claiming that life is determined by natural law, theoretical science denies freewill. In his book The Grand Design, Stephen Hawking observed,
“It is hard to imagine how free will can operate if our behavior is determined by physical law, so it seems that we are no more than biological machines and that free will is just an illusion,”
It should not escape your notice that when theoretical scientists are confronted with unpleasant truths that contradict their paradigm, they call them appearances or illusions. Theorists claim, ‘Creation has the appearance of intelligent design.’ Or ‘Man has the illusion of freewill.’ Christians see intelligent design for what it is, an act of God. I suppose most are familiar with Hans Christian Anderson’s folktale, The Emperor’s New Clothes. Only a child had the innocence to pronounce that the emperor was stark naked. Once the child pointed it out, the town came to its senses and agreed that the emperor had no clothes.
But how many remember the ending for it describes theoretical science precisely:
"But he hasn't got anything on!" the whole town cried out at last.
The Emperor shivered, for he suspected they were right. But he thought, "This procession has got to go on." So he walked more proudly than ever, as his noblemen held high the train that wasn't there at all.”
That is the predicament science has gotten itself into. By denying intelligent design, by denying freewill, they must also deny what they see clearly, that man does have freewill and that only by intelligent design could earth be compatible to life and galaxies created and organized. But the procession has got to go on. The facts must be denied, the illusion continued. But it leaves science naked to criticism.
In this podcast I shall focus on two of the greatest fallacies of theoretical science, called in logic False Analogy.
Theoretical science bases its conclusions on two false analogies. (1) man is a machine and (2) man is an animal. We can thank Charles Darwin for the animal image, and we can thank robotics for the machine image.
The primary reason that Christians reject the false analogies of theoretical science is because we understand the origin of man. Science rejects intelligent design. Theoretical science rejects the idea that God created the universe and God created men and women in his own image.
Christians take literally the assertion of Moses:
26 And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. (Genesis 1: 26-27)
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