Jim_Smith
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That's the scientific philosophical angle. There is also the sociological angle...
And I would add that part of the problem is that science journalism is complicit.
“journalists want to earn money, whereas scientists are only seeking the truth.” This brought loud guffaws from all three [professors]. “Scientists,” answered Dr. Fischer, “want success; they want a wife, a hotel room, an invitation, or perhaps a car!"
These sociological factors are symptomatic of the same permissive environment that makes it possible for obsolete ideas like materialism and naturalism to survive despite being implausible for many reasons.
Science is wrong about almost everything because it has been taken over by atheists who misuse science to pursue their metaphysical agenda. We don't even know how wrong it is because it rejects a priori some explanations because of methodological naturalism.
Atheist deceptions: methodological naturalism, god of the gaps, the multiverse, universe from nothing, promissory materialism, wish fulfillment.
http://ncu9nc.blogspot.com/2015/04/scientific-deceptions-how-science-is.html
Atheist deceptions that misuse science to promote a metaphysical belief ie. atheism:
- Methodological naturalism - it is unscientific to reject a priori any empirical evidence based solely on metaphysical preferences.
- God of the gaps - Theists believe God created the universe and natural laws, they do so because of logical reasons and empirical evidence. They don't limit God's role to just those things science can't explain.
- Only scientific explanations are valid: There are different types of explanations and theist explanations do not conflict with scientific explanations any more than Henry Ford and mechanical engineering conflict as explanations for automobiles produce by Ford. Science cannot explain those things that cannot be reduced to chemistry and physics such as mathematics, ethics, the meaning of life, information, semiotics.
- Multiverse - The multiverse theory, for which no evidence exists, is unfalsifiable and does not save atheism from the fine tuning problem.
- The universe came from nothing / fake definitions: natural laws are not nothing
- Promissory Materialism - Materialists promise to eventually explain everything through natural causes including consciousness, the origin of life, and the origin of the universe, because they claim that the progress of science has always supported the materialist position.. However promissory materialism isn't even plausible, it is contradicted by the history of science.
- Wish Fulfillment: Atheists often claim belief in God is false because it is due to wish fulfillment - the psychological phenomenon of thoughts that satisfy a desire. This is a deception because satisfying a desire doesn't make a belief false. You have to determine the truth or falsity of a belief based on evidence. Belief in atheism satisfies a desire for those who would be afraid of punishment in the afterlife or who look forward to an end to suffering from extinction at death. But this is not why atheism is false.
Atheists scientists like to say that because of scientific explanations there is no need for God as an explanation. Except they exclude a priori God as an explanation for any evidence. Despite stacking the deck like this with methodological naturalism they also ignore the fact that even if science can explain something as a result of natural laws it might be as, theists believe, that God created the natural laws. In order to dismiss the evidence of fine-tuning atheist scientist rely on the multiverse theory for which there is no evidence and which is unfalsifiable. And they rely on fake definitions of nothing when they claim that the universe came from nothing - natural laws are not nothing.
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