Season 4 Podcast 177, A New Voice of Freedom, Argument for the Existence of God, Episode 14, “Lessons From the Past.” Episode
Season 4 Podcast 177, A New Voice of Freedom, Argument for the Existence of God, Episode 14, “Lessons From the Past.”
If science quits believing in absolute truth and absolute reality, then science will quit being science. It will slide down the slippery slope of superstition and fall into the very contradictions it tries to conquer. It will be a new superstition held together by the bravery of a former language. It will be like the ruins of a great civilization where people will come and stand before its crumbling glory, wondering how such a mighty people could have fallen.
Evolutionary theorists or theoretical physicists who use ad hoc excuses such as luck, accident, chance, coincidence, or serendipity of surroundings to explain the anomalies of nature to avoid acknowledging God or intelligent design demonstrates very bad science.
What is the difference between that and Ptolemy protecting his geocentric view of the solar system by inventing the retrograde motion theory to explain why the geocentric model of the solar system acted in such complicated ways?
When Copernicus discovered that Ptolemy’s epicycles view of the solar system was false and our solar system was heliocentric, another blunder occurred. He thought the planets traveled in perfect circles because God was perfect.
Ecclesiastical leaders refused to look through Galileo’s telescope because they were afraid the great scientist would put a hex on them and make them see the moon as imperfect. They were certain that God would only create perfect spheres.
It is human nature, whether in science or religion, for man to protect his own paradigm. It is bad science, and it is bad religion. Man should not presume to tell God how to do things. Everything should be able to tell its own tale. Truth first, then religion and then science. Those who fear truth make neither good scientists nor good Christians.
Overzealous scientists are as guilty as overzealous Christians in telling people what they should see. It is in the nature of man, whether theist or atheist, to protect one’s beliefs, carry on one’s superstitions, and create God in one’s own image rather than the other way around.
Observation showed Copernicus that was incorrect, but the anomalies had to be explained. Even one of the greatest geniuses of all time, Sir Isaac Newton, using his laws of gravitation couldn’t explain why the planets weren’t flying off into outer space. Not realizing that God only uses laws, he used miracles to explain why the rotations of the planets corrected themselves; therefore, he quit searching for the truth. A hundred years later, Pierre Laplace, in his Celestial Mechanics, explained the anomaly. Though the story is thought to be apocryphal, Napoleon, after reading Celestial Mechanics, supposedly asked Laplace why he had not included God in the equation. Laplace, if the story is true, replied, “I have no need of that hypothesis.” What seems blasphemous at first blush is actually necessary for the success of science. All things religious are not true, but all things true are religious.
It seems to me that five great lessons can be learned from the mistakes of some of the greatest thinkers on our planet.
Lesson One:
Appealing to luck, accident, chance, coincidence, supernatural, or serendipity of surroundings rather than to law is catastrophic to scientific research, to truth, and to the advancement of science or religion.
Truth and Law are synonymous. All laws come from God, whether temporal or spiritual, and all Truth comes from God, whether temporal or spiritual. Search for God and you will find superstition. Search for truth and you will find God. Everything God does is governed by a complete set of laws.
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