My last post, Fallacy of Scientific Method as Proof of God {Anything}, used the scientific method’s definition to provethat science was, is, incapable of discovery truth. At best the scientific method can only support a hypothesis until a single falsifiable outcome disproves the hypothesis. This is a problem as modern Man believes that science reveals undeniable, absolute Truths. Modern Man has built an understanding from the universe to the subatomic forces to even Man’s originals based on science; except, science by definition provides no such pathway to absolutism. Hence, Modern Man lives by faith which is known by the label of scientism. Man measures the empirical and extrapolates to the non-empirical without any proof that one gives reliable evidence of the latter. This is the world’s faith, the world’s religion, the world’s hope for eternal immortality apart from God. And this religion has a prophet; Dr Yuval Noah Harari.
To comply with the Law of Identify I will give a definition of circular reasoning; a logical fallacy that assumes what it attempts to prove. Example: Geologists date the age of rocks from collocated fossils while paleontologists date fossils from their surrounding rocks. One relies on the other but neither uses a fixed source that gives actual dates. If you point to atomic dating methodologies these make circular reasoning assumptions to give usually acceptable dates. This is the problem with science. It can only give empirical measurements but the people defining the experiments make assumptions based on their biases; in addition, the measurements are meaningless until placed into a meaningful context which again is swayed by assumptionsand biases. The very real problem is that the empirical is based on non-empirical just as stated in the Bible (He 1:3). One of the greatest biases is the rejection of the Bible as a source of Truth. This is an example of a False Dilemmafallacy. The Bible does not provide truth of empirical processes nor claim to provide such. The Bible provides Truth of non-empirical realities that cannot be empirically measured by can be empirically observed (Ps 19:1; Ro 1:18-20).
For example, heat as an energy cannot be defined and all experiments to define heat failed. Hence, Joseph Fourier published a mathematical theory of heat that rejected explain what heat was in lieu of how heat behaved in solid objects {Goldman, S.L. Science Wars: What Scientists Know and How They Know It. Great Courses Parts 1&2. Course Guidebook. The Teaching Company. 2006. p. 43.}! Thus, while scientists cannot define heat, as in our example; they decry the Bible for not defining heat. This is bias. The Bible defines right and wrong in relation to God based on observable behaviors and emotional responses such as guilt. The universal condemnation of certain behaviors as wrong {murder, rape, lies, etc.} by Man and Bible act as proof of the Bible’s validity in non-empirical aspects. In addition, the Bible notes that observable Creation itself points to a Creator (Ps 19:1). If these aspects are true then why does Man reject them; and God? Bible gives us two perspectives (Ro 1:18-28; 3:10-18).
Man, since Adam, has a fallen nature, is Lost (Ge 3:5-8; Ps 51:5). Thus, Lost Man rejects God and God’s Truth; especially the need for a Savior (Jn 3:16-21). Man is asebeia or ungodly. Man, limited to a physical body with senses that assess only the empirical, makes his own truth based on his limited understanding and assessment of this creation. The second perspective flows from this erroneous basis which is the universality of sin in every person’s life. No one seeks after or wants to accept God. Man’s truths are literally lies allowing Man to prey upon and subjugate all who are considered weak. Man seeks to make a world in which God not only does not exist but one in which there can be no judgment; no consequence for hating creator God. Having laid this foundation, we come to modern Man’s definition of history and his plan(s) for your future.
Dr. Yuval Noah Harari is a Zionist Jewish scholar which means he is an adherent to atheistic socialism. The quote is the opening graphic not accords with the Bible, it also defines the goal Satan laid before Man; to be as gods. History for Lost Man began at sin when Women was deceived but Man embraced the understanding of gaining knowledge of the world apart from God to establish his Control over the world. It was a perversion of God’s blessing for Man to spread and establish his dominion over the World with God’s guidance (Ge 1:26-27; 1Ti 2:14). Cain was the fruition of this dominating, sin and when God rejected him and chose one whom Cain considered worthless, Abel; Cain slew Abel in an uncontrollable rage (Ge 4:1-8)! Cain became ruler over all those others who also rejected God, wanders {Nod}, becoming the father of both government and the religion that defined right and wrong to legitimize government’s Control over those it deemed lesser. Thus, Dr. Harari is correct in that lost human history began with man inventing gods since God was rejected. He is also corrected in that Man’s end point is replacing God with himself as the final determiner of right and wrong thus exonerating himself from any judgment (Ro 2:1-11). This is the goal of Posthumanism.
{Continued in Circular Reasoning of Your Scientism Reality B}