Science Says
Remember playing “Simon Says” as a kid? If the lead prefaces a command with “Simon says” then you have to do it. If not, and you do it, you’re out. That sounds alot like the game we’re playing now only it’s “Science Says”.
“Science says” has gotten a lot of attention the past 5 years from climate change to Covid-19. Science says we’re doomed. Unless of course we do what science says. But this begs the question “What does science say to do?” As Dr Frank Turek often says “Science doesn’t say anything, scientists do.” The more we hear “science says” the more skeptical we should become regarding the scientists, and the agenda of those reporting what they hear.
Janie B. Cheaney recently reviewed a book by David Berlinski called “Science after Babel”. In it she notes an interesting thing I’d never considered as an engineer but can easily recall the problem. In agricultural engineering they joke about the calculations that start out with “Assume a cow of spherical shape and constant density.” This points out a similar problem. Quoting Cheaney quoting him here:
“In systems comprising two bodies Newton’s equations of motion admit of a complete and closed solution (the spherical cow). When three particles interact –only one particle after all– the Newtonian system that results cannot be solved. Three is the number of the Trinity, and the number, too, at which the universe ceased to be computable.”
There remains, at the heart of the universe, the profound mystery of life itself: “a kind of intelligence evident nowhere else,” whose “fantastic and controlled complexity, its brilliant inventiveness and diversity, its sheer difference from anything else in this or any other world” is beyond the reach of science to explain.
“Books: Scientism meets is match”, World 10/21/23 p32
The fully materialistic worldview that doesn’t allow for any external design or influence on our system is falling apart. The multiverse is the latest remedy to the problems science has in computing the universe or anything else. From a subatomic perspective to the vastness of space we throw money at investigations that are costing more and more and finding less and less. And the entities controlling the funding for such things seem bent on keeping it that way, regardless of what the science says.
I’m not against working to better understand our world. We benefit from the work scientists do. Indeed, if we can put God back into science we might find it saying some very helpful things.