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Radiometric Dating is Pseudoscience

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.

(1 Timothy 6:20-21) KJV

Radiometric dating is an example of inductive reductive circular reasoning. It requires the assumption that nuclear decay rates are constant and an unwarranted application of the half-life rate law to nuclear decay.

  1. Nuclear decay rates,
  2. the half-life rate law.
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Only Half a Life?

worried girl in summer dress on train platform

The thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly.

(John 10:10) NKJV

Ernest Rutherford realized that Darwin’s theory of evolution needed a sound experimental foundation. Unfortunately, evolution as conceived by Darwin is wishful thinking, and so a contrived foundation was the best that Rutherford could do.

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The Soul Conclusion

From which some having swerved have turned aside unto vain jangling; Desiring to be teachers of the law; understanding neither what they say, nor whereof they affirm.

(1 Timothy 1:6-7) KJV

Jesus warned us about hell as the place where unrepentant souls suffer torment. We’re supposed to tell the world that Jesus is the way to redeem our souls and avoid hell. That’s when you encounter this:

“There’s no such thing as a soul because science can’t detect it.”

– Atheist Science Troll
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Searched out Beneath

Thus saith the LORD; If heaven above can be measured, and the foundations of the earth searched out beneath, I will also cast off all the seed of Israel for all that they have done, saith the LORD.

(Jeremiah 31:37) KJV

The interior of the earth is not seen. The hope of our generation is that hell is a myth. That would mean that there’s no judgement for sin and we can live immoral lives without fearing any consequences.

Unfortunately the very same data that SciPop uses as evidence that there’s no hell may be used as evidence for hell. That’s how evidence works: it’s evidence of whatever you choose to believe about it. This is known as Matty’s Razor.

We all have exactly the same evidence.
Our choice of paradigm determines what we believe it’s evidence of.

– Matty’s Razor

Jeremiah’s Logic

  • IF God will cast off the seed of Israel,
    1. If heaven above can be measured,
    2. the foundations of the earth can be searched out beneath,
  • BUT God doesn’t cast off the seed of Israel,
  • THEN:
    1. heaven above can’t be measured,
    2. the foundations of the earth can’t be searched out beneath,

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Math = Faith

And when they shall say unto you, Seek unto them that have familiar spirits, and unto wizards that peep, and that mutter: should not a people seek unto their God? for the living to the dead? To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them.

(Isaiah 8:19-20) KJV

Faith is believing in something that you can’t see. Math requires believing in concepts that you can’t see and relating them to each other in ways that can’t be seen. Math is the language of faith.

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Is the Bible Literal or Figurative?

But whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life.

(John 4:14) KJV

What is this living water? And if Jesus said that there is such a thing as living water, does that mean that there is dead water? These are the kinds of things that I contemplate, it helps to ease my mind. This puts me in good company I believe, as Isaiah seems to have thought the same thing.

Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee: because he trusteth in thee.

(Isaiah 26:3) KJV

One of the things that I truly love about the Bible is the way that it explains itself. When you find a passage, like this one of the conversation that Jesus had with the Samaritan woman, and it raises an intriguing idea like that of living water, diligent study will find out the other parts of the Bible that help to bring you to its full understanding. So if the living water wells up in the person who believes in Jesus Christ, then what? What does it do? We turn to another passage in the Gospel of John for help understanding it.

In the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying, If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink. He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water.

(John 7:37-38) KJV

So now I know that the stream of living water will come out of my belly. Now, technically speaking, there isn’t actually a stream of water coming out of my belly, and so therefore this is a figure of speech that is being used as a picture of something else. The passage goes on to explain this too, and what it tells us is that the indwelling of the Holy Spirit in the believer enables the believer to share the gospel of Jesus Christ like a river of living water. However, the practical manifestation of this is not actual water coming out of an actual belly, but an out-flowing of the Spirit of God through words and deeds.

There is a point to this, trust me.

I believe that the Bible gives us an accurate account of the physics of creation, the history of the world to the present time, and what is going to take place in the future. Because of this some people ask me if I think the Bible should be taken literally. Unfortunately there is not a simple yes/no answer. I believe that the literal parts should be taken literally, but the figurative parts should not. So how do we know what parts of the Bible are literal and which are figurative?

We have to examine the context of the passage to see if it is referring to or describing an actual physical phenomenon. I know that Jesus in today’s passage is speaking figuratively because there isn’t a stream of water coming out of my belly. I also know that when God said, “Let there be light,” the physical conditions necessary to cause light to appear were present, and so this is literal.

We can test the Bible against itself, and we can test the Bible against physical evidence and scientific knowledge. This is also how we can test whether scientific knowledge is real or imaginary.

Is science describing something that, interpreted correctly, can be accounted for by the Bible? This again should cause us to examine the evidence carefully, not what science says about the evidence, but we should be examining the evidence for ourselves.

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August 1st

Noah’s Flood

For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water:

(2 Peter 3:5) KJV

The peer review driven narrative of popular science (SciPop) wants you to believe that there’s no evidence of a world-wide flood. A world-wide flood would have left debris everywhere.

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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.

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