QUESTION #2 from Walt Brown PhD |
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Let me define science.
Science: A field of study seeking to better understand natural phenomena through the use of observations and t experiments. Broad, but increasingly precise and concise, relationships are sought between causes and effects. These relationships, called scientific laws, help predict future phenomena and explain past events.
Notice, this does not mean that the first cause must be naturalistic. It is poor logic to say that because science deals with natural, cause-and-effect relationships, the first cause must be a natural event. Furthermore, if the first cause were a natural consequence of something else, it would not be the first cause. Scientific laws can give great insight on ultimate origins even though the first cause cannot, by definition, be duplicated. Yes, there was a beginning.
Scientific conclusions, while never final, must be based on evidence.
Scientific evidence: Something that has been measured with instruments or detected with our senses, is verifiable, and helps support or refute possible physical explanations.
[Figure 165: Causes and Effects. Each arrow's tail represents a cause, and each yellow circle represents an effect. The arrow itself is the cause-to-effect relationship. Yellow circles also represent scientific evidence that to most people suggests a creation and a global flood. All of us, including students, should be free to reach our own conclusions about origins after learning the evidence and all reasonable explanations. Withholding that information in schools or misrepresenting it in the media is inexcusable.
The first cause appears to be supernatural, or beyond the natural (blue area). Evolutionists often say that the yellow circles and their scientific implications cannot be presented in science classrooms, because the first cause (red circle) is supernatural. Subjects outside the natural (including biblical descriptions of creation and the flood that are so consistent with the physical evidence) are inappropriate for publicly financed science education. However, excluding what is observable and verifiable in nature, along with possible causes, is bad science, misleading, and censorship. Creation science, then, is the study of this scientific evidence.]
All evidence in Parts I and II of this book is based on observable, natural phenomena that others can check. To most people, this evidence implies a creation and a global flood. This does not mean that the Creator (The First Cause) can be studied scientifically or that the Bible should be read in public-school science classes. (I have always opposed that.) Those who want evolution taught without the clear evidence opposing it, in effect, wish to censor a large body of scientific evidence from schools. That is wrong. Also, the consequences of a global flood have been misinterpreted as evidence for evolution, not as evidence for a flood. That misinterpretation, unfortunately, is taught as science.
Explanations other than creation or a global flood may someday be proposed that are (1) consistent with all that evidence and (2) demonstrable by rep eatable, cause-and-effect relationships. Until that happens, those who ignore known evidence are being quite unscientific. Evolutionists' refusal to debate this subject (see pages 409-412) and their speculations on cause-and-effect phenomena that cannot be demonstrated also show poor science, especially when so much evidence opposes those speculations.
Evolutionists raise several objections. Some say, "Even though evidence may imply a sudden beginning, creation is supernatural, not natural, and cannot be entertained as a scientific explanation." Of course, no one understands scientifically how the universe came into existence—how space, time, matter, and the laws of physics began. Others, not disputing that the flood best explains many features on earth, object to a global flood, because the Bible—a document they wish to discredit—speaks of such a flood. Still others object to the starting point for the flood (given on page 117), but in science, all starting points are possibilities. The key question must always be, "What best explains all the evidence?"
Also, the source of a scientific idea does not need to be scientifically derived. For example, Friedrich Kekule discovered the ring structure of benzene in a dream in which a snake grabbed its tail. Kekule s discovery laid the basis for structural chemistry. Again, what is important is not the source of an idea, but whether all evidence supports it better than any other explanation. Science, after all, is a search for truth about how the physical universe behaves. Therefore, let's teach all the science.
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THE APOSTLE PAUL WROTE "SCIENCE FALSELY SO-CALLED" - THEN AGAIN GOD DOES AT TIMES DO THINGS THAT "SCIENTISTS" [EVOLUTION ONE] CANNOT UNDERSTAND, AS THE THINGS DONE BY HIM AT TIMES, GOES AGAINST ALL OBSERVABLE SCIENCE LAWS OR WHATEVER THEY WANT TO CALL THEM. SO TRYING TO PROVE GOD, THE UNIVERSE, BY JUST "SCIENTIFIC" MEANS IS UTTERLY IMPOSSIBLE - Keith Hunt