Scientism Has a Problem — It Can’t Be Verified Scientifically

[Michie]

Science can measure some characteristics and reveal some physical structures, but it can never tell us what something is and why it was given the privilege of existing.

“Two blokes walk into a pub and say they’ve discovered the secret of life. Only on February 28, 1953, they weren’t joking.”

The two blokes? James Watson and Francis Crick. The secret of life? The double helix structure of DNA.

I came across this passage recently in a book about beekeeping, and I was struck by the casual, implicit assertion that DNA is the secret of life. Living things are certainly different from non-living things. The assumption of our age, so deeply embedded in our collective consciousness, is that the secret to understanding what makes living things alive, the determining factor that sets living things apart from other things, is DNA.

This idea is part of the wider, unquestioned and unconscious conviction of our culture that science has discovered and can discover all the secrets of existence. In the deeply religious and despotic philosophy of scientism (not science), such conviction is the paradigm of the virtue of faith: blind trust that the revelations made by the scientific method are the ultimate truths.

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Scientism Has a Problem — It Can’t Be Verified Scientifically

Science can measure some characteristics and reveal some physical structures, but it can never tell us what something is and why it was given the privilege of existing.

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[Wolseley]

Crick and Watson again. Those two guys have been feted by the "scientific" community for decades because they "discovered the secret of life."

Except they didn't.

They subscribed to the common evolutionary dogma that five billion years ago, a bolt of lightning hit a gob of snot lying in a mud puddle, and the snot then evolved into a rhinoceros. So, to prove that this was how life started, they "re-created" those conditions: they put all the chemicals they assumed existed in the mud puddle into a sealed container, made sure it was all sterile, and ran an electrical current through it.

And what happened? Oh, they created life!

Except they didn't.

What they "created" was a chemical reaction that produced amino acids, the "building blocks of life." But it wasn't alive. They merely took some existing material, mixed it up in just the right way, and had the stuff that can be used to create life---but they didn't create life, and neither has anybody else, in any lab anywhere, ever.

Saying that Crick and Watson created life out of assembling some chemicals and an electrical current is the same as saying that if you stack X many board feet of lumber, numerous bags of concrete, a bucket of nails, and some panes of glass in an empty field, you've just built a house.

Which you haven't. You have all the material there to built the house, sure, but the house isn't built until an intelligent, outside agency uses the material to put the house together....like a building contractor. In the same way, Crick and Watson got all the stuff needed to create life together, but they still didn't create life. Life isn't created until an Intelligent, Outside Agency (God) puts the materials together in the right way and imbues it with a Divine spark.

Without that, all you have are materials sitting in an empty field.

 

[Diamond72]

“Two blokes walk into a pub and say they’ve discovered the secret of life.

It was discovered by women and they stole her research and claimed credit for themselves.

 

[WarriorAngel]

This -----> Science can measure some characteristics and reveal some physical structures, but it can never tell us what something is and why it was given the privilege of existing.

 

[Mark Quayle]

This -----> Science can measure some characteristics and reveal some physical structures, but it can never tell us what something is and why it was given the privilege of existing.

It can't even tell us HOW something exists. —Not even close!

 

[Diamond72]

It can't even tell us HOW something exists. —Not even close!

Can not even tell us IF anything exists. They come out with one movie and now everyone thinks we live in a virtual world.

 

[Diamond72]

a bolt of lightning hit a gob of snot lying in a mud puddle, and the snot then evolved into a rhinoceros.

That is your grandpa you are talking about. Sex, (recombination) began with pond scum.
Mom and dad have been Popping out puppies ever since.
Even creationists believe in fine-tuning.
So the species can adapt to the ecosystem.

The great lakes have an issue with blue-green algae blooms.