Blaise Pascal and LBG-2377
Blaise Pascal wrote "'Either
God is or he is not.' But to
which view shall we be inclined? Reason
cannot decide this question … Yes; but you must wager. There is no
choice … Let us weigh up
the gain and the loss involved in calling heads that God exists. Let us
assess the two cases: if you
win you win everything, if you lose you lose nothing. Do not hesitate
then; wager that he does
exist." One can not find God by
reason alone. We only find him by faith. Yet everyone has
faith of some kind. One cannot even analyze the universe without faith.
Consider the scientists who searched for supernovas in proto galaxies.
They stacked deep photos
taken at different times with the Canada-France-Hawaii telescope. Spots
appeared in the photos
of LBG-2377, which they took to be supernovae. (Lyman Break Galaxies
with a z > 2.5 do not
show up with a UV filter but show up with a red filter.) The light from
LBG-2377 has a z > 3,
which they estimate left 11.3 billion years ago.
Scientists do not just filter light.
Every bit of evidence that a scientist encounters runs through a
creedal filter. This filter is a historical, elementary assumption. Scientists
approach the universe
with an article of faith invented by a pagan Greek philosopher.
Aristotle wrote that a philosopher
could not make a true statement unless the properties of matter are
fixed (not emerging). [If
matter is always changing itself, what is true today would (by nature)
not be so true at some later
point.] The creedal foundation for science began when the popes
authorized the European
universities to adopt Aristotle's metaphysics (about seven hundred
years ago). Over the centuries
this creed became an authoritative dogma, yet it is never mentioned in
any science class. Why
not? It is accepted as self-evident because it is the faith needed for
scientific measuring and
mathematicating. 1950 years ago, Peter predicted that the false
teachers of the last days will
obfuscate the age of the starry heavens because "they maintain this." Maintain
what? That "all
things remain the same in being - Greek: panta outos diamenei." The
entire structure of scientific
rationality was constructed on the assumption that matter is not
changing relationally with age.
Solomon admitted that
science is impossible. According to the Bible, all things are phthora,
fundamentally changing. Cosmic history is the only history that is
visible. We actually see how
the galaxies formed and what we see fits biblical cosmic history (in
the Hebrew text of the Bible). Not
one of the billions of primordial galaxies shines with the light of
perpetual motion atoms. Yet the
creed of all scientists is that atoms are immutable and do perpetual
motion. Why do they believe
something so ridiculous? Their empirical system, their definitions,
laws, methods and
mathematics all depend on the assumption that the properties of matter
are not emerging.
Biblical physics is simple.
It uses no mathematics. It does not measure time or distance with
perpetual motion atomic standards. With biblical physics, one does not
have to believe that the
vacuum of space is altering all the visible evidence (so that atoms can
remain immutable). The
most powerful evidence for biblical physics is how the galaxies did not
accrete or merge. When
we compare galaxies at 
many ranges,
we see how those star clusters came
out, rotated around,
spread out, accelerated out as billions of galaxies grew into huge
growth spirals. In fact, LBG-2377, is also surrounded by strings of
blue star globs. Every clock in the universe, atomic and
orbital (star trails) accelerates together. This is simple evidence
against the scientific creed that the properties of matter are not
emergent.
Consider Pascal's wager. If
you bet on perpetual motion empiricism and you lose, you lose
everything. Even your wisdom will turn to foolishness. Why
would God
make a universe in
which atoms change relationally with age? So that wise people will not
find Him with their
wisdom. Only those who come to Him on the basis of child-like faith in
Jesus will triumph. God
will get never-ending glory when He vanquishes the great wisdom of men,
their science.
Which
faith are you betting on: the creed of science or the biblical faith?
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