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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The majority of people accept the teachings of scientific materialism without question. If a Nobel prize-winning scientist tells us the universe was created in the Big Bang, it was; if he tells us the early universe inflated trillions of times in blink of an eye, it most certainly did; if tells us the picture perfect universe evolved from the Big Bang chaos with no intelligent guiding force we believe that too; if a Harvard professor tells us life arose from a primordial swamp and then evolved from primitive bacteria to structured order of the DNA molecule and all life forms, we buy into that as well. And we buy in so strongly that anyone who disagrees with these established truths is misguided, if not ignorant.
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Radicalness is relative. What we today call radical may tomorrow be the unchangeable truth. Calling the world a dream streaming from the one mind of God is a radical thought. But the question is whether it is true. Compare it to modern science's current world theories -- the inflationary Big Bang, the multiverse, dark matter, dark energy, the Higgs field, and so on -- and then judge what theory is more radical -- the dream of God or the wild speculation of modern, materialistic scientists? ...