If you think back
over the history of science, you will recognize that many, many times the
scientists have been wrong. One might even be able to make the case that they
are usually wrong.
Do they think they
are wrong at the time? No. They think they are right with almost absolute
certainty, just like today. The scientists who thought the earth was the center
of the universe not only believed they were right, they violently opposed
Galileo when he said the Earth revolved around the Sun. Why did they do that?
To have some fun and
surprises you might check out some of the websites about major mistakes that
scientists have made in the past: Top 10 Science Mistakes [1], Top 10 Disproven
Theories [2], Why Most Published Research Findings Are False [3], Most
Scientific Theories Are Wrong. [4]
For some more fun,
check out on these websites for some of the more famous quotes by science and
world leaders who were wrong: It’ll Never Work [5], Incorrect Predictions [6], Predictions-Quotes.[7]
Try naming any
scientific breakthrough that was not strongly opposed. In fact, I would make
the case that the strongest opposition usually comes shortly before the new
idea gains wide acceptance because that is when the opponents fight the hardest
to stop it. Check out the history of the locomotive, electricity, automobiles,
airplanes, television, radio, and computers to name a few.
Do you think that
scientists all jumped on board with Einstein and instantly accepted the theory
of relativity? Maybe there was no heated debate and angry words. Wrong. That’s
not how it works.
Einstein himself
admitted that he had made a big mistake after refusing for years to accept that
the universe is expanding. He even went so far as to fudge his formula to avoid
the new truth and account for data outside his pet theory. In the end he called
this his “greatest mistake”.[8]
Have you heard that
the sum total of knowledge in the world is doubling every 12 months (and on its
way to every 12 hours)? [9] Incredible. Obviously we don’t know it all, do we? Ask
any honest scientist and he/she will admit that there are a lot of things they
don’t know in their chosen field…maybe even more than they think they already
know.
We tend to think that
we know it all today, the full and complete truth. Only those people in the
past were ignorant, but not us. Not even close.
We tend to think
that truth is always accumulating in a straight line and always going upward,
new truth gets added on top of old truth and they always agree with each other.
Nope. New truth will often turn out to be significantly opposed to the old
truth. New truth will contradict the old “truth” because the two are
incompatible.
One of the “most
influential philosophers in science of the 20th century” is probably
someone you never heard of. His name is Thomas S. Kuhn [10] and in 1962 he
wrote a book called The Structure of
Scientific Revolutions. He is the one who popularized the term “paradigm
shift”.
“According to Kuhn the development of a science is not uniform but has
alternating ‘normal’ and ‘revolutionary’ (or ‘extraordinary’) phases. The
revolutionary phases are not merely periods of accelerated progress, but differ
qualitatively from normal science.”
…anomalies are ignored or explained away if at all possible. It is only
the accumulation of particularly troublesome anomalies that poses a serious
problem for the existing disciplinary matrix. A particularly troublesome
anomaly is one that undermines the practice of normal science. [11]
He explained
historically how science only progresses in a straight line for periods of time
and then a revolution takes place when there is growing uneasiness with the
“truth” because it doesn’t explain the new data.
This is exactly what
is happening to the Theory of Evolution. The theory is not able to explain the
data very well any more.
“Like all other scientific theories, Darwinian evolution must be
continually compared with the evidence. If it does not fit the evidence, it
must be reevaluated or abandoned--otherwise it is not science, but myth.”
“If the icons of evolution are supposed to be our best evidence for
Darwin's theory, and all of them are false or misleading, what does that tell
us about the theory? Is it science, or myth?”[12]
99.9% of all known
fossils have been discovered since the time of Darwin, but his “missing links”
have never been found. [13] The same goes for the two forces of mutation [14]
and natural selection.[15] They are failures at experimentally producing any
new species. Now we see the Theory of Intelligent Design emerging in
opposition. We also see it is being almost violently opposed. Adherents of
Evolution want Intelligent Design people to shut up and are trying to get their
jobs taken away.[16] They vilify esteemed atheists who change their minds. [17]
I predict
Intelligent Design will win the battle because it better explains the data.
If you look on the
horizon, you can see other revolutions in thinking and “truth” that are coming.
For example, look at all the books being writing by very distinguished and
credible people who have lived through and returned from a “near death
experience”.[18] Many others are now coming forward to testify to their own
experiences of life after death. It is showing up more and more on television
and in movies. Eventually it will be undeniable.
Another example is
in the fields of psychology and medicine. Research is making amazing advances
in alternative methods of healing that are more successful. Most people are
unaware of what is happening below the surface and out of the public media. Individuals
like Mahendra Trivedi are popping up around the world. Over 4,000 scientific
experiments have verified his energy healing abilities. [19]
Once it is
established that there is life after death, a huge paradigm shift will take
place in the world and how people live their lives. Perhaps it will be gradual
but the world will change tremendously as people adjust to the idea that they
will live forever and the way they act in this life will determine what happens
to them in the next.
These developments
and discoveries are not random. There is an invisible, intelligent force at
work behind the scenes working with the people who are making these
discoveries. That being is the origin of this knowledge and is helping it be
revealed to the world.
There is God and
He/She will eventually be known by all of us, even a reluctant scientist.
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[1] Top Ten Science
Mistakes. http://www.sciencechannel.com/strange-science/10-science-mistakes.htm
[2] Top Ten
Disproven Theories. http://www.askmen.com/top_10/entertainment/top-10-disproven-theories.html
[3] Why Most
Published Research Findings Are False. http://www.plosmedicine.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pmed.0020124
[4] Most Scientific Theories Are Wrong. http://scienceblogs.com/startswithabang/2013/05/31/most-scientific-theories-are-wrong/
[5] It’ll Never Work.
http://www.lhup.edu/~dsimanek/neverwrk.htm
[6] Incorrect
Predictions. http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Incorrect_predictions
[7]
Predictions-Quotes. http://www.etni.org.il/quotes/predictions.htm
[8] Einstein’s
Mistakes: The Human Failings of Genius
by Hans C. Ohanian explains 23 mistakes that Einstein made including the one in
1917. http://discovermagazine.com/2008/sep/01-einsteins-23-biggest-mistakes#.UvGzZfldXy0
[9] David Russell
Schilling article, "Knowledge Doubling Every 12 Months, Soon to be Every
12 Hours", April 19th, 2013, http://www.industrytap.com/knowledge-doubling-every-12-months-soon-to-be-every-12-hours/3950
[10] Wikipedia,
Thomas S. Kuhn, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Kuhn
[11] Thomas Kuhn information.
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/thomas-kuhn/
[12] Jonathan Wells,
evolutionary biologist and author, Icons
of Evolution, website: http://www.iconsofevolution.org/intro/
[13] Proof for God
#18 The Fossil Record, http://101proofsforgod.blogspot.com/2012/08/18-fossil-record_29.html
[14] Proof for God
#27, The Truth About Mutation, http://101proofsforgod.blogspot.com/2013/02/27-truth-about-mutation.html
[15] Proof for God
#35, Natural Selection, http://101proofsforgod.blogspot.com/2013/05/35-natural-selection.html
[16] Ben Stein, movie:
Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed, http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/expelled-no-intelligence-allowed/ Be
sure to Google it so you can see how it is vilified.
[17] Proof for God
#17, Dr. Antony Flew, http://101proofsforgod.blogspot.com/2012/08/17-dr-antony-flew.html
[18] Proof for God
#10, Life After Death, http://101proofsforgod.blogspot.com/2012/07/10-life-after-death.html
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