PSI Blog 20211025
Impossibility of falsifying myths
Abhishek
Chakravartty asks:
“You wrote that
creation is not subject to falsification because it is a myth that belongs to a
religious belief system. Can you explain why creation cannot be falsified
although it is a myth?”
[GB: Abhi: Please
reread the Galston link. In summary, myths are present in the heads of people.
We have no way of testing them. Falsification is possible only for evaluating
things and motions that exist or occur outside people’s heads. Anyone can claim
the universe was created by gods, dogs, turtles, dark energy, or what have you.
On the other hand, specific claims about actually existing things (i.e., xyz
portions of the universe) can be tested. For instance, there are claims that
the universe was created 6,000 years ago. If we found anything older than that,
the claim would be falsified (i.e., shown to be false). I have done that myself
hundreds of times through isotope dating and pedochronology. While that claim
has been put to bed, there could be an endless number of creation claims. We
could never test all of them in the same way we could never prove “there are
causes for all effects.” In essence, infinity prevents us from
falsifying fundamental assumptions, whether they be scientific or religious.
The Big Bang Theory is
just another creation theory, which like more overtly religious versions of the creation
myth, cannot be falsified. Only specific claims for it can be falsified. For
instance, the discovery of elderly galaxies at the limits of observation falsifies the
hypothesized 13.8-billion-year age of the universe. Unbelievers have discovered
much more evidence for falsification. George Coyne alone lists 66 flaws in the
theory.[1]
Will any one of these bring down the Big Bang Theory? That is doubtful as long
as the religious assumption of creation (Matter and motion can be
created out of nothing) holds sway over its opposite, the scientific assumption
of conservation
(Matter and the motion of matter can be neither created
nor destroyed).[2]]
[1] Coyne,
George, 2021, Notfinity Process: Matter in Motion (2nd ed.), JCNPS, 408 p.
ReplyDeleteGreat blog Glenn! Glad to see the citing of Notfinity Process: Matter-In-Motion 2nd Edition (2021). The 67-page chapter titled Falsifying Big Bang Theory provides convincing evidence against the Big Bang theory, citing 191 scientific sources. The chapter concludes with the following paragraph.
I believe that one of the biggest reasons that BBT is so entrenched among astronomers is best explained in a quote from Leo Tolstoy, one of the greatest writers whose books had a profound influence on the world, including Mohandas Gandhi and Martin Luther King. Although he was speaking generally, what he said is applicable to many of BBT’s proponents. Tolstoy wrote:
I know that most men, including those at ease with problems of the highest complexity, can seldom accept even the simplest and most obvious truth if it be such as would oblige them to admit the falsity of conclusions which they have delighted in explaining to colleagues, which they have proudly taught to others, and which they have woven, thread by thread, into the fabric of their lives.191
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Great blog Glenn. Glad to see the citing of Notfinity Process: Matter-In-Motion 2nd Edition (2021). The 67-page chapter titled Falsifying Big Bang Theory provides convincing evidence against the Big Bang theory, citing 191 scientific sources. The chapter concludes with the following paragraph.
ReplyDeleteI believe that one of the biggest reasons that BBT is so entrenched among astronomers is best explained in a quote from Leo Tolstoy, one of the greatest writers whose books had a profound influence on the world, including Mohandas Gandhi and Martin Luther King. Although he was speaking generally, what he said is applicable to many of BBT’s proponents. Tolstoy wrote:
I know that most men, including those at ease with problems of the highest complexity, can seldom accept even the simplest and most obvious truth if it be such as would oblige them to admit the falsity of conclusions which they have delighted in explaining to colleagues, which they have proudly taught to others, and which they have woven, thread by thread, into the fabric of their lives.
The 408-page Notfinity Process is now discounted at Amazon.com at $29.95 US. At Amazon in Canada it is $36.95 Canadian.
Great blog Glenn. Glad to see the citing of Notfinity Process: Matter-In-Motion 2nd Edition (2021). The 67-page chapter titled Falsifying Big Bang Theory provides convincing evidence against the Big Bang theory, citing 191 scientific sources. The chapter concludes with the following paragraph.
ReplyDeleteI believe that one of the biggest reasons that BBT is so entrenched among astronomers is best explained in a quote from Leo Tolstoy, one of the greatest writers whose books had a profound influence on the world, including Mohandas Gandhi and Martin Luther King. Although he was speaking generally, what he said is applicable to many of BBT’s proponents. Tolstoy wrote:
I know that most men, including those at ease with problems of the highest complexity, can seldom accept even the simplest and most obvious truth if it be such as would oblige them to admit the falsity of conclusions which they have delighted in explaining to colleagues, which they have proudly taught to others, and which they have woven, thread by thread, into the fabric of their lives.
The 408-page Notfinity Process is now discounted at Amazon.com at $29.95 US. At Amazon in Canada it is $36.95 Canadian.
Exactly true, just as Glenn B states it.
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