Most scientists reject Thomas Kuhn’s wakeup call in “The Structure of Scientific Revolutions”, even though his book fostered the science of paradigm change, how to detect when aging paradigms are wearing out, and how to predict the paradigms (or scientific models) of tomorrow.
Using these techniques, I published various papers in national and international conferences and journals (not Creationist or Christian venues, but solid, scientific conferences). Here’s an example of my publications:
A paper showing how the largest and third largest meteorites to ever hit the Earth caused elephant-sized oil deposits (the type that birthed Saudi Arabia’s oil wealth) on two great circles on the Earth. These circles lined up existing elephant-sized deposits and projected where to look for the next such deposits. The Society of Economic Paleontologists and Mineralogists, which warned their members about nasty Creationists on their website, still published my paper.
A paper that proposed an alternative to the asymptotic increase in global warming by considering cyclic warming throughout thousands of years of history, via the mechanism of the worldwide ocean conveyor. This paper not only predicted the cause of global warming, but its solution or prevention. This was published at the Boston Global Warming conference, and in their international journal by special invitation. They also invited me the following year to submit my follow-on work for their Featured Speaker position.
Three international conferences published my papers on the problems with the world’s best radiometric dating methods. As a result of these papers, I was invited to attend a conference featuring a ‘shootout’ of the Western proponents of oil exploration (looking in sedimentary formations for ‘petro-oil’ or oil sourced from animals and plants) vs. Russian techniques (looking for abiotic oil in basement or the deepest layers below the fossil record).
I also pointed out errors in two computer codes by the world’s foremost experts in Probabilistic Risk Assessment and human error analysis. I was paid by these experts to correct these same computer codes.
Using Kuhn’s techniques, I was able to propose significant advancements in widely diverse fields, and get them published. Scientists can disparage Kuhn all they want, but his techniques work!
Kuhn, like the boy who cried out, “The king has no clothes”, wasn’t reaching out to the king’s guards as much as the long-suffering populace.
I also realize that very few rigid scientists will change (it has been said that “Science improves one funeral at a time”, for there is no other way to loosen the hold of the rigid and powerful eggheads preventing progress in science). Instead I’m reaching out to the conservative Christian and Jewish parents who’ve watched their kids march off to college and lose their faith under the assault of atheistic and evolutionist teachers.
From the reactions of naysayers in this string, many of our scientists not only can’t see the assumptions that support their science, but blindly refuse to acknowledge these assumptions when they ARE pointed out. Scientists will not experience the power to ADVANCE their science unless they first recognize the assumptions inherent IN their science.