epistemology

July 25, 2018July 25, 2021

July 25th

When pride comes, then comes shame; But with the humble is wisdom.
(Proverbs 11:2) NKJV

The intellectual tragedy of our generation is a failure to understand what evidence is and how it’s used, and the resulting misconception about what constitutes knowledge. The theory of knowledge is called epistemology.

July 24, 2018December 23, 2020

July 24th

Hitchens’s Razor

Pride goes before destruction, And a haughty spirit before a fall.
(Proverbs 16:18 ) NKJV

Hitchens’s razor is one of the most popular atheist deities. It’s the intellectual equivalent of putting your thumbs in your ears and wiggling your fingers while sticking your tongue out. It’s regarded as intellectual high ground from which “scientists” can automatically dismiss anything said by a person of faith.

January 17, 2018January 21, 2022

January 17th

Science Falsely So Called

O Timothy, keep that which is committed to thy trust, avoiding profane and vain babblings, and oppositions of science falsely so called: Which some professing have erred concerning the faith. Grace be with thee. Amen. {The first to Timothy was written from Laodicea, which is the chiefest city of Phrygia Pacatiana.
(1 Timothy 6:20-21) KJV

We (that’s me and the Holy spirit) have identified 5 leaps of faith in the theoretical foundation of popular science (SciPop). They’re used as axioms. but they’re inductive rationalizations of circumstantial evidence.

May 23, 2017December 23, 2020

Prove that You don’t Have Faith

They fought from heaven; the stars in their courses fought against Sisera.
(Judges 5:20) KJV

Our favorite illustration of how popular science (SciPop) requires faith is Kepler’s 1st Law of Planetary Motion. The law states that planetary orbits are elliptical and that the sun is at one focus of the ellipse.

January 8, 2017February 25, 2021

The 3 Aspects of Scientific Faith

For there are three that bear record in Science, the IF, the THEN, and the THEREFORE: and these three are one.
– The Scientific Trinity

The traditional battle line of science vs. faith is a false dichotomy because what people call “science” is actually popular science (SciPop) which requires 3 aspects of faith: ignorance, motivational and developmental.

March 25, 2016November 30, 2020

Measure the Heavens

If one day the sky could be measured
and the foundations of the earth explored,
only then would he reject the people of Israel
because of all they have done.
The Lord has spoken.
(Jeremiah 31:37) Good News Translation

We start with a simple observation: God hasn’t, and won’t, cast off the seed of Israel. This leads us to a conclusion: We haven’t measured the heavens. So why do we think that we know the distance to the sun and its mass?

December 17, 2015January 17, 2022

Evidence is Irrelevant

This is evidence of the righteous judgment of God, that you may be considered worthy of the kingdom of God, for which you are also suffering
(2 Thessalonians 1:5) ESV

The physical world that we can see is evidence of its past. A fossil skull, for example, is proof that something happened at an earlier time. What we think it’s evidence of is based on our point of view.