Scientism is to science what egotism is to ego
| January 28, 2014 | Posted by News under Intelligent Design, Naturalism, News, Science |
With the same outcome for popularity, it seems.
And here’s my latest MercatorNet column on how thinkers are starting to push back:
He blames the pushback he (and Pinker) have encountered on the fact that the human race hasn’t evolved in such a way as to see that his views are correct (he and Pinker are presumably exceptions). Others, however, blame the pushback on contrary evidence. Following hard upon recent affirmations of the existence of free will and of doubts about materialist neuroscience and materialist psychiatry, this development is not entirely a surprise to trend-watchers. Rather, it is a confirmation.
First, New Republic editor Leon Wieseltier replied in “Crimes Against Humanities”, calling Pinker’s viewpoint a “reductionist racket.” He pointed out that
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I would just add one thing. I have watched this Pinker (from Montreal) talks of brains.
He teaches Jews are intellectually superior to other men based on genes.
So anything he says about humans evolving really is about certain humans evolving.
Its not a endorsement of all men or Barack Obama.!
He stresses brains evolving to justify his own peoples claims to being a supiour identity.
One should always press this home as not only is it crazy but in the liberal culture it leads to being discredited.
Monkey see monkey do.
Pinkerisms on these other subjects should be secondary to his conclusions on identity/race and probably sex in regards to smarts.
Although with his hair style he does seem to be aiming to look like Einstein.
Sometimes its hard getting a response here, so I want to repost this, is there a way to start a thread here?
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In fact Joe, I would like to start a campaign to make the University of Chicago explain why they allow a con-man to represent their university publicly.
I mean if he is allowed to go around giving talks, as a member of their faculty, and not only insult other academics, and call into question their integrity, on top of that he operates a blog which is essentially one big lie. In the youtube video I watched recently, he says he gives the finger to all creationists, and then presents about ten completely fabricated facts about evolution.
At what point does the University of Chicago have an obligation to see that their professors are displaying a level of truth and integrity in public. I am quite sure the University of Chicago receives plenty of government funds.
I would like to start a topic on this site to discuss this, but I don’t know how to start new topics.”
phoodoo:
As far as I know, the general members of this blog have not the privileges to start a new topic. The privileges are given to individual persons, by the administrator (or administrators), according to his/their judgment, as it should be.
Ah, I really love people like Rosenberg, Pinker and Dawkins. They say the wrong things with such conviction and clarity! 🙂
What is interesting about people who believe that ‘Science’ has all the answers to all the important questions of life is that it is those people who are the most dogmatic in denying the conclusions of science when it contradicts/falsifies their base materialistic/atheistic philosophy.
And although both General Relativity and QED (Quantum Electro-Dynamics) are tested to extreme levels of accuracy (14 or 15 orders of magnitude of accuracy)
,,, And although that level of accuracy is certainly very impressive, the level to which Quantum Mechanics proper, stripped of its QED special relativity interface, has falsified materialism as a coherent explanation for reality, blows even that 14 or 15 places of accuracy completely out of the water:
The following articles give us a small glimpse as to what it truly means for entanglement to be confirmed to an order of ’70 standard deviations’:
Thus having non-locality undermine a materialistic/naturalistic conception of nature by 70 standard deviations cannot even be realistically imagined by us.
Moreover, Quantum Mechanics has not left us in a void as to providing a coherent explanation for the basis of reality, with its removal of a materialistic understanding of nature as a true conception of nature, but has, with just as much if not more certainty as the 70 standard deviations, given us clear evidence that consciousness, not materialism/naturalism, forms the true basis of reality:
If you have trouble accepting the implications of the preceding video, don’t feel alone, Nobel prize winner Anthony Leggett, who developed Leggett’s inequality to try to prove that an objective material reality exists when we are not looking at it, still does not believe the results of the experiment that he himself was integral in devising, even though the inequality was violated by a stunning 80 orders of magnitude. He seems to have done this simply because the results contradicted the ‘realism’ he believes in (realism is the notion that an objective material reality exists apart from our conscious observation of it).
When I have pointed this out to people in the past, I’ve received some fairly stubborn push-back from atheists/materialists. This is completely ironic since it is they who are supposedly the people who believe most strongly that ‘Science’, i.e. “Scientism’, has all the answers for all the really important questions in life.
Verse and Music;
What is interesting about people who believe that ‘Science’ has all the answers to all the important questions of life is that it is those people who are the most dogmatic in denying the conclusions of science when it contradicts/falsifies their base materialistic/atheistic philosophy.
And although both General Relativity and QED (Quantum Electro-Dynamics) are tested to extreme levels of accuracy (14 or 15 orders of magnitude of accuracy)
,,, And although that level of accuracy is certainly very impressive, the level to which Quantum Mechanics proper, stripped of its QED special relativity interface, has falsified materialism as a coherent explanation for reality, blows even that 14 or 15 places of accuracy completely out of the water:
The following articles give us a small glimpse as to what it truly means for entanglement to be confirmed to an order of ’70 standard deviations’:
Thus having non-locality undermine a materialistic/naturalistic conception of nature by 70 standard deviations cannot even be realistically imagined by us.
Moreover, Quantum Mechanics has not left us in a void as to providing a coherent explanation for the basis of reality, with its removal of a materialistic understanding of nature as a true conception of nature, but has, with just as much if not more certainty as the 70 standard deviations, given us clear evidence that consciousness, not materialism/naturalism, forms the true basis of reality:
If you have trouble accepting the implications of the preceding video, don’t feel alone, Nobel prize winner Anthony Leggett, who developed Leggett’s inequality to try to prove that an objective material reality exists when we are not looking at it, still does not believe the results of the experiment that he himself was integral in devising, even though the inequality was violated by a stunning 80 orders of magnitude. He seems to have done this simply because the results contradicted the ‘realism’ he believes in (realism is the notion that an objective material reality exists apart from our conscious observation of it).
When I have pointed this out to people in the past, I’ve received some fairly stubborn push-back from atheists/materialists. This is completely ironic since it is they who are supposedly the people who believe most strongly that ‘Science’, i.e. “Scientism’, has all the answers for all the really important questions in life.
Verse and Music;
I totally agree. I saw a good illustration of this just yesterday when I read an article about dinosaur DNA, red blood cells, and soft tissue on creation dot com entitled “Dinosaur Soft Tissue”.
It is well known that a number of years ago, Dr. Mary Schweitzer found soft tissue in what she claims is a dinosaur bone that is over 70 million years old!
Unbelievable, right? That’s what most scientists thought back then. Most ridiculed her and insisted she made a mistake. I mean, they absolutely “knew” that she had to be wrong! (This is an instance where their worldview blinded them to the facts.)
Historical science that deals with the unobservable, unrepeatable, untestable past is not the “be all and end all” of truth like many people think! Because they “knew” she had to be wrong, many refused to believe her no matter what evidence she presented. But since then many more such discoveries have been made. Her discovery has been verified time and time again to their surprise and embarrassment!
So there you have it. Everything we know about the laws of chemistry and biology etc. – everything – says it is impossible for red blood cells, DNA, and soft tissue to last millions of years.
But is that enough to make them question the age of these bones?
No way! If they did that, they would also have to admit that the rocks the bones are buried in are young as well.
If you thought scientists were objective, or if you thought they follow the evidence wherever it leads, this shows that is not always the case.
This idea of young rocks or young dinosaurs is anathema to evolutionists no matter how strong the scientific evidence against it is. They must have millions of years to work with. Without millions of years, evolution is dead in the water!
So instead of sticking to the known laws of science – laws they can see, test, and verify, – they go against the findings of science, preferring to believe in something that is untestable and seemingly scientifically impossible.
Does that show a bias or what?! This shows the strength of their paradigm. It forces and enables them to believe in many impossible things to save their faith in millions of years of evolution!
OT: More blatant misdirection by Darwinists in Texas’ new Textbooks:
Can Life’s Building Blocks Form “Naturally in Our Solar System”? – Casey Luskin January 29, 2014
Excerpt: True, a handful of meteorites have been found to contain organic material, including occasional amino acids, but is there evidence that the building blocks necessary for life could have been formed and delivered to the earth this way in sufficient quantities? As one paper in Nature has noted, “organic matter cannot survive the extremely high temperatures (>104 K) reached on impact,,,
Read more here:
http://www.evolutionnews.org/2.....AAlzR.dpuf
That video gives the misleading impression that the basketball has the same probability of being “here” as it does being “there”, which is false. Superposition deals with individual quantum objects and events. The location of particular object or event being “here” or “there” is predicted by a probability curve. For example, if an electron is “here” at one moment, it has a 99.999999999999999% change of being “there” the next moment. The aggregation of all the probabilities of all the atoms in a basketball make it 99.9999999999999999999999999999999999% certain that the basketball will be “here” rather than “there.”
^^^^^ change = chance
That quantum mechanics applies to the large, ‘macro’, scale of the universe was established here:
Macrorealism Emerging from Quantum Physics – Brukner, Caslav; Kofler, Johannes
American Physical Society, APS March Meeting, – March 5-9, 2007
Excerpt: for unrestricted measurement accuracy a violation of macrorealism (i.e., a violation of the Leggett-Garg inequalities) is possible for arbitrary large systems.,,
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2007APS..MARB33005B
i.e. The wave function does not collapse until a conscious observer makes a measurement! To establish that point was the whole point of Leggett’s Inequality!
supplemental note from the QED perspective:
Bohemian Gravity – Rob Sheldon – September 19, 2013
Excerpt: Quanta magazine carried an article about a hypergeometric object that is as much better than Feynman diagrams as Feynman was better than Heisenberg’s S-matrices. But the discoverers are candid about it,
“The amplituhedron, or a similar geometric object, could help by removing two deeply rooted principles of physics: locality and unitarity. “Both are hard-wired in the usual way we think about things,” said Nima Arkani-Hamed, a professor of physics at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, N.J., and the lead author of the new work, which he is presenting in talks and in a forthcoming paper. “Both are suspect.””
What are these suspect principles? None other than two of the founding principles of materialism–that there do not exist “spooky-action-at-a-distance” forces, and that material causes are the only ones in the universe.,,,
http://rbsp.info/PROCRUSTES/bohemian-gravity/
as well:
LIVING IN A QUANTUM WORLD – Vlatko Vedral – 2011
Excerpt: Thus, the fact that quantum mechanics applies on all scales forces us to confront the theory’s deepest mysteries. We cannot simply write them off as mere details that matter only on the very smallest scales. For instance, space and time are two of the most fundamental classical concepts, but according to quantum mechanics they are secondary. The entanglements are primary. They interconnect quantum systems without reference to space and time. If there were a dividing line between the quantum and the classical worlds, we could use the space and time of the classical world to provide a framework for describing quantum processes. But without such a dividing line—and, indeed, without a truly classical world—we lose this framework. We must explain space and time (4D space-time) as somehow emerging from fundamentally spaceless and timeless physics.
http://phy.ntnu.edu.tw/~chchan.....611038.pdf
Quantum theory survives latest challenge – Dec 15, 2010
Excerpt: Even assuming that entangled photons could respond to one another instantly, the correlations between polarization states still violated Leggett’s inequality. The conclusion being that instantaneous communication is not enough to explain entanglement and realism must also be abandoned.
This conclusion is now backed up by Sonja Franke-Arnold and collegues at the University of Glasgow and University of Strathclyde who have performed another experiment showing that entangled photons exhibit,, stronger correlations than allowed for particles with individually defined properties – even if they would be allowed to communicate constantly.
http://physicsworld.com/cws/ar.....-challenge
What Does Quantum Physics Have to Do with Free Will? – By Antoine Suarez – July 22, 2013
Excerpt: What is more, recent experiments are bringing to light that the experimenter’s free will and consciousness should be considered axioms (founding principles) of standard quantum physics theory. So for instance, in experiments involving “entanglement” (the phenomenon Einstein called “spooky action at a distance”), to conclude that quantum correlations of two particles are nonlocal (i.e. cannot be explained by signals traveling at velocity less than or equal to the speed of light), it is crucial to assume that the experimenter can make free choices, and is not constrained in what orientation he/she sets the measuring devices.
To understand these implications it is crucial to be aware that quantum physics is not only a description of the material and visible world around us, but also speaks about non-material influences coming from outside the space-time.,,,
https://www.bigquestionsonline.com/content/what-does-quantum-physics-have-do-free-will
Of course QM is involved in at the macro classical level. But you’re missing my point: that video is misleading for the reason I explained.
CentralScrutinizer, sorry. I’m so use to atheists trying to defend a materialistic interpretation of QM that I guess I did not nuance it out and reacted in a rather knee jerk reaction fashion. Apologies again.
BA77,
No problemmo
Would getting an admin to reply to a question be a bit like spooky action at a distance? Is it just a theory?