Nothing, however, but nothing, could rival the sales boost provided by Donald Trump [in his first term]. This president embodies the insight that given a willingness to lie without compunction, norms of veracity can be abolished with extraordinary speed. It is one of the central demands of the Party, in Orwell’s book, that you “reject the evidence of your eyes and ears”. Trump put that maxim into effect on his very first day in office of his first term, with his insistence that people ignore the evidence of their senses about his Inauguration day crowds.

One particular area of Huxley’s prescience concerned the importance of data. Facebook’s mission statement “to give people the power to build community and bring the world closer together” sounds a lot like the new world’s motto “Community, Identity, Stability”. The public nature of relationship status, the idea that everything should be shared, and the idea that “everyone belongs to everyone else” are also common themes of the novel and the company — and above all, the idea, perfectly put by Zuckerberg and perfectly exemplifying Huxley’s main theme, that “privacy is an outdated norm”.

This theme, of an attack on privacy, is central to Orwell’s vision too. Thought crime is one of the most serious crimes in Nineteen Eighty-Four. It is at this point that we can start to see his and Huxley’s novels not as competing visions of the future but as complementary, overlapping warnings. Our world has sex on display everywhere, entertainment to take you out of your mind whenever you want, and drugs to make you stop feeling.

Continue reading “6) Intelligence Or Intelligentsia?”

“And God said, Let us make man[kind] in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over all the earth.” (Genesis 1:26)

• “Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness [proving God’s documented plan for humanity],
• and the first [of many]  begotten [heirs of God risen] from the dead,
• and the prince [ruler] of the kings of the earth…
• that loved us, and washed us from our sins in his own blood,
• And hath made us kings and priests unto God [All Power] and [who is also] his Father [Authority and Provider]…for ever and ever;” (Revelation 1:5-6)

The ancient Greek philosophers, by use of thought processes alone, laid the foundation for the way science is conceived and investigation pursued in our modern world, while believing in the existence of a Creator, a Supreme Being, and/or lesser gods.

Thales (d. ~550 BC) is known as the Father of Science because he used observation, scientific knowledge and logic, developing theories of mathematics, engineering, astronomy and medicine to find explanations for natural phenomena which had previously been attributed to the 12 Olympian gods. At the same time, he did not reject gods, and believed these energy beings were present in everything.

Pythagoras (d. ~500 BC), whose geometry theorem is still one of the most widely used, also contributed to the development of science. Pythagoras believed that souls are immortal.

Parmenides (d. ~450 BC) is considered the father of metaphysics. He believed that real existence could not be perceived through the senses, only through logic and reasoning. His main principle was that “everything is one”. This exactly matches Albert Einstein’s 20th century deduction that energy and mass are the same.

Anaxagoras (d. ~425 BC) argued that nothing can perish, the ingredients of the material world are constantly changing form and everything has a portion of everything. Again, matching Einstein’s Theory of Relativity.

Continue reading “8) God’s Word Or Humans’?”

From Forbes Magazine:

Scientific Proof Is A Myth

You’ve heard of our greatest scientific theories: the theory of evolution, the Big Bang theory, the theory of gravity. You’ve also heard of the concept of a proof, and the claims that certain pieces of evidence prove the validities of these theories. Fossils, genetic inheritance, and DNA prove the theory of evolution. The Hubble expansion of the Universe, the evolution of stars, galaxies, and heavy elements, and the existence of the cosmic microwave background prove the Big Bang theory. And falling objects, GPS clocks, planetary motion, and the deflection of starlight prove the theory of gravity.

Except that’s a complete lie...when it comes to science, proving anything is an impossibility.

Reality is a complicated place. All we have to guide us, from an empirical point of view, are the quantities we can measure and observe. Even at that, those quantities are only as good as the tools and equipment we use to make those observations and measurements…

In order to come up with a model capable of predicting what will happen under a variety of conditions, we need to understand a few things.

1. What we’re capable of measuring, and to what precision.
2. What’s been measured thus far, under specific initial conditions.
3. What laws hold for these phenomena, i.e., what observed relationships exist between specific quantities.
4. And what the limits are for the things we presently know.

If you understand these things, you have the right ingredients to formulate a scientific theory [bu]…nothing in science can ever truly be proven.

Continue reading “SECTION II: The Reality Option”

Science requires a belief that there are constants of nature – invariable, unchanging conditions and measurements – used in scientific investigation, without which its models, theories, predictions fundamental to its laws of physic  are meaningless.

One of the simplest but most powerful laws of physics is E = mc². As Einstein himself put it: “mass and energy are both but different manifestations of the same thing.”

This is called, logically, the Theory of Relativity.

But just as flour and milk just sit there in the kitchen until acted upon by stirring and pouring and applying heat energy and flipping to make pancakes, and possible forgotten by a distracted cook until they burn away to ashes, no conversion from energy to mass or mass to energy can happen anywhere in the universe until acted upon by a Force.

This force, scientifically described as “c” for “constant, never-changing”, is postulated to be the speed of light. The speed of light is considered the absolute upper limit of velocity in the universe at which conventional matter or energy can travel through space. Within the laws of nature, if mass were ever to reach the speed of light it would effectively have to have acquired an infinite mass.

Multiplying nature’s absolute upper limit’s numerical value of  299,792,458 metres per second in Einstein’s equation.by itself (c²) mathematically expresses the quality of infinity of the force that exists and acts outside the confines of the laws of nature.

And that is exactly how the Hebrew Bible defines the Creator God.

“And Moses said unto God, Behold, when I come unto the children of Israel, and shall say unto them, The God of your fathers hath sent me unto you; and they shall say to me, What is his name? what shall I say unto them?” (Exodus 3:13)

To understand Moses’ question, and therefore God’s answer, we must place it in context of the religious beliefs of the ancient nations, not only the Hebrews, but the mixed multitude from Egypt’s empire who had thrown in their destiny with this Hebrew God of gods after their own multitude of gods had proven unable to counter the Hebrew God’s plagues. The “name” of their many gods identified their power in life or death – god of fertility, god of war, etc.

“And God said unto Moses, I Am / Being היה / hayah That / אֲשֶׁר aser  I Am / Being היה /hayah.” (Exodus 3:14)

Notice that God multiplies himself by himself, expressing this God’s “name” / attribute / power exactly as Einstein as c²⁼e/m – Infinity containing all Energy and Mass preceding in order to create the universe, not trapped in an ever-changing river of time, but always Being.

The name / power of the Hebrew God is the verb used in Genesis 1 stated multiple times in the past, present and future to recount an act of creation.

Continue reading “9) Scientific Constants Validate Creation”

There’s a lot we don’t know about our universe — in fact, 95% of it remains a mystery to us. 

In my following simplified explanation of what the world’s greatest geniuses are still investigating I don’t claim to be completely accurate, only to give an idea of some of what is being explored in Physics –  the science that deals with the structure of matter, the nature of energy, and the forces controlling them. 

To be “quantized” means to be consistently measurable.

“A quantum (plural: quanta) is the minimum amount of any physical entity involved in an interaction”.

Defining a physical entity in terms of its interaction seems odd, but that’s because extremely small objects simultaneously have the characteristics of both 1) particles of mass and 2) transfer of energy / waves within a discrete area, exactly like waves of water in the ocean.

Physicists call this the “wave / energy -particle / mass duality.”

Think of how macroscopic water molecules are both 1) mass which lies at rest at the seashore in which children can safely play, and also 2) as the waves of energy, which as a tsunami can wreak US$10b of damages and over 200,000 deaths.

A tiny quantum wave is measured just like a massive ocean wave, which, logically, means it must be consistently constrained, or forced together, within 1) a time frame of measurement, and in a system – where the units are forced together in a bound state – like the ocean’s surrounding wind overhead, floor beneath, and the dry land all around.

Continue reading “10) Quantum Physics Validates A Creator-Sustainer”

From the Department of Health and Social Behavior, Harvard School of Public Health: intimate relations exist between mathematics and material reality, that counting and categorizing are the currency of durable knowledge, and that empirical study of variegated humanity…can uncover universal truths.

Incidence and prevalence are measures used to describe patterns in communities.

Incidence measures the number of new persons experiencing a condition within a population, during a given period of time.

Prevalence measures the total number of people within the total population experiencing a condition during a given period of time.

From a research perspective, the place to start investigating the reality of a religious belief is the statistical evidence of

• high incidence  – consistently high numbers of new believers over time
• and high prevalence – consistently high numbers of adherents over time.

Religion has been a factor of the human experience since pre-historic to modern times. There is no culture recorded in human history which has not practiced some form of religion. This fact alone lends credibility to believing in religion.

Continue reading “11) Statistics Validate Belief In God”

“avoiding profane and vain babblings, and oppositions of science falsely so called: Which some professing have erred concerning the faith.” (I Timothy 6:20-21)

There were three major revolutions in scientific thought that prepared the way for a successful theory of evolution.

The first major change in scientific thought was in the field of biology. Linnaeus, the Swedish biologist, had proposed the first successful taxonomy of all species of plants and animals. This taxonomy abandoned the theory of the chain of being that claimed that all living creatures formed an unbroken scale of complexity and nobility, terminating with the most complex and noble of all, humanity. Instead, Linnaeus showed that life could be divided into separate categories, each divergent from the others.

How does this make sense? Evolution is the theory of a chain of complexity, so Linnaeus’ “abandonment” of this idea cannot support Evolution. 

The truth is that Linnaeus was not abandoning anything but building on Aristotle’s (384–322 BC) existing classification of animal species in his History of Animals, while his pupil Theophrastus (c. 371–c. 287 BC) wrote a parallel work, the Historia Plantarum, on plants.

Continue reading “SECTION III: Science Falsely So-Called”

The Big Bang Theory remains the most popular explanation for the existence of the universe, despite its inherent failure to provide an explanation for matter out of nothing and organization out of chaos.

Because it eliminates an Almighty Creator / Sustainer / Authority / Judge.

About 13.8 billion years ago the universe sprang into existence in an event known as the Big Bang.

“In the beginning” there was an equal amount of mass and energy condensed to the size of a soccer ball, called a Singularity. This is clearly based on Einstein’s Relativity where E=m, without, however factoring the c2 Force that controls the stability or conversion or chaos of the effect of one on the other. 

Then, obviously requiring a Force which is not explained by the Big Bang Idea (not actually a Theory) the universe suddenly, without explanation blew up / inflated / expanded, becoming vastly larger.

There’s a tremendous amount of research and speculation about what started inflation, but nobody knows. There is no evidence we can point to; no observations we can make; no experiments we can perform.

One thing that has been absolutely mathematically determined by these studies is that temperature fluctuations are thousands of times smaller than a Big Bang predicts. 

How long inflation lasted is not only unknown, but unknowable. Nonetheless, astronomists have no problem assigning a date of “about 13.8 billion years ago.” 

Continue reading “13) The Big Bang Theory Is Just A Show”