What other sciences have been distorted by a disbelief in Genesis?
A recent book about string theory (by Peter Woit) has the near-perfect title of Not Even Wrong. The science of physics has gone so deep into the weeds that it scarcely qualifies as science any more. (According to the review in Publishers Weekly, "[string theory's] practitioners have become so desperate, says Woit, that they're willing to redefine what doing science means in order to justify their labors".
Is the universe in which we exist merely one of an infinite number of existing universes? Are we a bubble sprouting from another universe? Can information be transmitted at speeds that exceed the universal constant (the speed of light)? Do we live in a universe of more than 4 dimensions, with all the other dimensions collapsed into invisibility? (And what is the difference between that and a universe of only 4 dimensions?)
The Big Bang theory posits that, in an infinitely small space of time, an infinitely small something-or-other exploded into the universe we now know, hundreds of millions of light-years across. How does this comport with the fundamental physics law that nothing exceeds the speed of light? The Big Bang drives us to believe that particles traveled hundreds of millions of light-years in the blink of an eye.
Read Bill Bryson's chapter on the Big Bang in A Short History of Nearly Everything. Granted that Bryson is not a theoretical physicist: still his description of the beginning of the universe is one that requires at least as much faith as is required to believe Genesis 1:1. Why call it science, then? Because admitting that it is faith opens the door other faith-based theories?
Physicists have been laboring with string theory for 2 decades, without a single testable prediction, much less any confirmatory experiments.
George Orwell once said, somewhere, that when a group is headed in the wrong direction, the first one to turn back is the true "progressive". When will we see physicists turn back, and seek the exit from the house of mirrors in which they have lost themselves?
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Chuck,
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John,
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Chuck
I think, perhaps, all the "social sciences" are themselves the result of a disbelief in Genesis. After all, they exist mainly too diagnose the ills of society, and as a gauge of basic human behavior. Genesis clearly shows the origin of those ills, and the rest of the Bible is a pretty good gauge!
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