epistemology – Page 2 – Matty (Headwind)

July 25, 2020May 18, 2022

The New Scientific Knowledge

O Timothy! Guard what was committed to your trust, avoiding the profane and idle babblings and contradictions of what is falsely called knowledge—by professing it some have strayed concerning the faith. Grace be with you. Amen.
(1 Timothy 6:20-21) NKJV

Knowledge and facts are things which ought to be true regardless of what we believe about God or the origin of the universe. Therefore, something which is only true in the popular science paradigm (SciPop) isn’t knowledge.

July 25, 2020January 19, 2021

Faith = Evidence

For we are saved by hope: but hope that is seen is not hope: for what a man seeth, why doth he yet hope for? But if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it.
(Romans 8:24-25) KJV

You don’t need to have faith in something if you can see it. Faith is only necessary when we can’t see. However, that doesn’t mean that we don’t have evidence. As such, faith is believing in what you can’t see because of evidence.

July 25, 2020March 15, 2022

Faith

Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.
(Hebrews 11:1) KJV

Current popular science (SciPop) propaganda is that “faith is belief without evidence.” However we all have the same evidence (Matty’s razor) so the meme fails as a definition of faith.

July 25, 2020March 15, 2022

Evidence

When he arrived and saw this evidence of God’s blessing, he was filled with joy, and he encouraged the believers to stay true to the Lord.
(Acts 11:23) NLT

One of the best examples of how evidence is used incorrectly in the popular science paradigm (SciPop) is the worldwide distribution of sedimentary deposits and the evidence of Noah’s flood.

July 24, 2020July 25, 2020

The High Price of Epistemological Buffoonery

And in hell he lift up his eyes, being in torments, and seeth Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom.
(Luke 16:23) KJV

Threatening people with hell isn’t an effective communication technique. You’ll be dismissed as a kook. The problem is, despite the fact that popular science (SciPop) appears to have a compelling rationale for why hell isn’t at the center of the Earth, it’s very easy to demonstrate the weaknesses of this rationale.

July 24, 2020July 25, 2020

Primary or Secondary?

Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil; Who put darkness for light, and light for darkness; Who put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!
(Isaiah 5:20) NKJV

Hitchens’s razor is based on assuming that secondary sources of evidence, vetted and approved by Peer Review to be compliant with the popular science paradigm (SciPop), are primary sources of evidence.

July 24, 2020July 25, 2020

Epistemological Abuse

“Everyone must use honest weights and measures:
(Ezekiel 45:10) Good News Version

Hitchens’s razor isn’t a philosophical tenet which regulates the use of evidence, it’s proof of a failure to understand what evidence is and how it’s used. We all have exactly the same evidence. What you believe it’s evidence of is derived from your choice of paradigm. This is Matty’s Razor.

July 23, 2020April 1, 2022

Heliocentric vs. Geocentrospheric?

The sun also rises, and the sun goes down, And hastens to the place where it arose.
(Ecclesiastes 1:5) NKJV

An overwhelming majority of people believe that we observe the Earth orbiting the sun but it’s not an observation, heliocentricity is theoretical. We observe the cosmos from Earth, which makes it Geocentrospheric.

July 22, 2020December 23, 2020

The Stratigraphic Column

For after seven more days I will cause it to rain on the earth forty days and forty nights, and I will destroy from the face of the earth all living things that I have made.”
(Genesis 7:4) NKJV

One of the pillars of the popular science paradigm (SciPop) is the acceptance of sleight-of-hand and smoke-and-mirrors in place of science. Pithy memes have won the day along with false definitions and propaganda.

June 9, 2020March 15, 2022

Mainstream Science Needs Faith

Timothy, keep safe what has been entrusted to your care. Avoid the profane talk and foolish arguments of what some people wrongly call “Knowledge.” For some have claimed to possess it, and as a result they have lost the way of faith.
God’s grace be with you all.
(1 Timothy 6:20-21) Good News Translation

A lot of people are involved in the science vs. faith debate. This is rather ironic since what they refer to as “science” is a sad parody called mainstream science (SciPop) which requires just as much faith as any religion does.