The aids to inference that lead scientists to the fact of evolution are far more numerous, more convincing, more incontrovertible, than any eye-witness reports that have ever been used, in any court of law, in any century to establish guilt in any crime. Proof beyond reasonable doubt? Reasonable doubt? That is the understatement of all time. Richard Dawkins, The Greatest Show on Earth Understatement — or overstatement —of all time? That is the question this blog will explore. According to modern evolutionists, Darwin’s theory of natural selection is as “incontrovertible as any fact in science,” supported by evidence at least as strong as that proving the truth of the Holocaust. (R. Dawkins, The Greatest Show on Earth, Preface). If you don’t believe in evolution, according to these modern thinkers, you are “inexcusably ignorant” (D. Dennett, Darwin’s Dangerous Idea, 46), insane (R. Dawkins, Ancestor’s Tale, 13), or perhaps some...
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Brian Greene is undoubtedly one of the finest science writers at work today. His books, The Elegant Universe and The Fabric of the Cosmos, are both well written and provide, for the most part, clear and entertaining accounts of modern cosmology’s cutting-edge theories. Many of these theories may, in fact, turn out to be wrong, but Professor Greene keeps the reader in mind as he makes his way through the confounding theories of modern cosmology, including quantum theory, the inflationary Big Bang, and Greene’s personal favorite, string theory. Professor Greene has recently published a new book, entitled, “The Hidden Reality: Parallel Universes and the Deep Laws of the Cosmos” (for which a longer comment will be forthcoming), and to promote the book, agreed to an interview with David Gelernter in today’s (Jan. 31, 2011) Wall Street Journal. This interview (along with the book) will, with luck, mark the end of the road for scientific theorizing within a materialistic framework. The...
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One way to judge the two stories is think them both through with an open mind. And, like a scientist conducting an experiment in a laboratory, we must remove our own beliefs and prejudices from the outcome of the experiment. The reader must try to look at the world purely, like a child. Strive for extreme objectivity; be the perfect neutral judge and make no decisions until the evidence comes in and the arguments weighed against each other.
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Eckhart Tolle, in his popular book, The New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose, denigrates the physical world we live in as a secondary reality; a distraction from who we really are -- pure Being. But Tolle errs. The physical world, this three-dimensional place we inhabit, is a reflection of being, and the failure to appreciate the incredible improbablity that such a world exists, may lead someone, such as Tolle, to ponder instead the inner world of Being as constituting ultimate reality. It may be, but this ultimate reality has an unknown power to project a three-dimensional world of form that we should honor, not denigrate. ...
German physicist, Max Planck, the founder of quantum theory, is credited with observing that “science advances one funeral at a time.” What did he mean? What we call “modern science” is in fact a set of theories advanced by the day’s leading scientists, teachers, authors, and textbook writers. (Included among this group would be Stephen Hawking, Lawrence Krause, Stephen Weinberg, Leon Lederman, John Gribben, Richard Dawkins, and Daniel Dennet). These individuals “control the airwaves” by defining the body of scientific knowledge that they hand down to their students, television commentators, readers, and the public at large. Boosted by their association with Science, the most authoritative intellectual discipline, these thought leaders direct the course of our worldview and determine the theories and ideas we are supposed to believe in. These ideas and theories include the Big Bang (the world was created in a gigantic explosion of matter, space, and time), cosmic inflation (the matter present at the Big Bang expanded by 50 orders of magnitude in...
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