Posted on 04/18/2019 5:20:21 PM PDT by vannrox
I admit I haven’t read this, but in today’s nihilist environment, chances are 90% it’s pseudointellectual BS intended to convince people truth is entirely subjective, and socialism and the Green New Deal are doable.
It is sophistry.
By extension, it is also moral relativism.
He says that, contrary to common thought, Newton’s Laws are neither “fixed nor imputable”. I’m trying to discern why he wouldn’t say “immutable”, as it seems to fit the context better. It can’t be a misprint, though, as he does it multiple times.
Actually it is about truth coming from extraterrestrials through some group called MAJestic. 9caps his not mine)
Either H Ross Perot or Jeff Sessions must be the leader of these ET truthers.
> Metaphysical claptrap. <
I did not read the entire thing. But based on the except here, I actually think this might be some sort of a prank article.
Side note: I’ve taught physics at the college level. Undergrad stuff only. What this guy wrote here made my head hurt. Very disjointed.
It was physical enough that the Son of God felt and experienced torture and death, and He not only created it, He holds all things together. It exists; it simply is not all that there is.
Thank you for recognizing and commenting on the self refuting character of this entire article.
The key word here is *intentionally* false.
Let me use the analogy of a radio show, say Rush Limbaugh.
For example, let’s say his show is on AM 910 from 10:00am to 12:00pm. So at 10, you tune your radio to 910, because this is the reality you want.
But now think of all the other radio stations broadcasting at the same time. And the static between stations as well. They are part of reality, but you don’t want to perceive them right now. Nor do you want to listen to programs before 10 or after noon. Yet they are part of reality as well.
Nor do you want to deal with all the other stuff on the other electromagnetic bands, including FM radio, TV, analog and digital, light, radiation, etc. It is also part of reality, but you don’t care about it.
So you discriminate against all the rest of it and just listen to one radio program. Is its reality fake? Well, yes and no. A little bit of it is what you want, just a tiny fraction of the whole.
When I was in high school on summer vacation I was golfing on the muni up in northern Michigan in a small town where my mom was from.
There was a really nice local girl who was lovely watching me admiringly as I drew back the driver and smacked a wormburner which rose a bit and hit her directly in the left knee.
Better have lived and lost than to have never loved at all...
Torah corroborates his projection: that the ways of G-d are far and away higher than the mind of man can imagine. Bereshit (Genesis) plainly states that the entire Universe is made of ‘words’, having been spoken into existence. Therefore, it follows that what we perceive as real, or solid is actually a force field sustained and held together by ‘little bits of nothing’. These little bits behave uniformly with a fierce intensity that belies the fact that they are being directed. Their behavior is being imposed upon them by an unknown actor: Ha Kodesh Baruch Hu. The Holy One, Blessed be He. Tomorrow night candles will be lit and the Story of Redemption will be told to another generation, and many scientists and scholars will look into the eyes of their children and unflinchingly teach them about the ultimate reality, and that this reality is Personal. Happy Passover Everyone.
The essence of empirical epistemology is faith. I am sitting in my chair because I have faith that it is not going to collapse under me or instantaneously evaporate. That faith is based on empirical experience, both my own and my observations of others sitting in chairs, but if I did not have faith in the chair, I would not sit in it.
The difference between faith in Christ and faith in my chair is one of degree, not kind. I sat in my first chair because I was willing to take the risk without personal experience, on the basis of the testimony of others, and because I was in need of resting my legs; I came to Christ because I was willing to take the risk without personal experience, on the basis of the testimony of others, and because I was in need of resting my soul. It took more faith to comes to Christ than to come to the chair: as much as a grain of mustard seed.
And one more thing. Aristotle made sense until Newton came along, and Newton made sense until Einstein came along, and Einstein made sense until quantum physics came along, and quantum physics will make sense until the next here-is-how-the-universe-works comes along. But each is simply a more complex, more nuanced version of the same assertion, that the universe demonstrates orderliness and complexity at every level from subsubatomic to supercluster galactic, and the only way *that* makes sense is to accept by faith the existence of a God who made it so, who keeps it so, and who, to use an unscientific term, selflessly loves it.
That sounds uncannily like CNN...
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“The second law of thermodynamics is empirical. It has no fully satisfactory theoretical proof.”
I believe there are some quite extensive statistical explanations.
Frailiche Pesach to all b’nei Yisroel!
Exodus 4:22 “Israel is my firstborn son”
Well if that's true...
"And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt amongst us."
This is nothing but pure mindless garbage. I'm quite irritated at myself for even reading this far.
This article is really flawed by liberal doublethink. I an an electrical engineer with 36 years experience with satellite system design including orbital dynamics. If you don’t observe something that matches theory then something is wrong, but this author is arguing the opposite, what we observe must be wrong.
I know there is much we don’t know, but there is much we do know. and it all works, internet, satellites, nuclear reactions.
There is always a leftist goal to make hypothetical situations where the solution is for them to take control and guide us rubes to utopia.
Excuse me for wanting to flush this article and the writer to the utopia at the end of my sewer system.
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