Sunday, November 19, 2017

New Mexico is Bullied Into Retaining "Science Facts" Which are Ideology

New Mexico changed references that previously were asserting that evolution, the Age of the Earth, and AGW are "scientific facts".
New Mexico Has Deleted Basic Science Facts From Their Education Standards

References to climate change, the age of the Earth and evolution have been removed

Apparently all Hell broke loose as "scientists" and "educators" and legislators swarmed furiously, demanding the "scientific facts" be restored.

And so they were:
New Mexico Restores Evolution And Climate Change to Education Standards After Scientists Protest

Victory!

The concept of science as testable empiricism per Bacon, Locke, Newton, Maxwell, Boltzman, Carnot, Joule, Hume, Einstein, Feynman is now merely history, at least as far as the Atheist "science fanboys" are concerned. None of the three concerns - climate change, age of the earth, evolution are empirically testable, and at best are supported by unprovable processes of suspicious applicability.

Climate change is probably not happening, since the concept has required data modifications such as an added slope, a denial of historical data, cherry picked data sources, and questionable measurement methods, fudged data and manipulated measurements (at the cold end) and far insufficient earth coverage. Icons of climate change such as ice melt at the poles and sea level rise don't support the premise. The population of polar bears is increasing. Desertification is not increasing, it is decreasing.

The age of the earth is "determined" by the use of radio-active decay in certain layers or layer substitutes. The decay presumes that the daughter ions of the decay process did not exist at the time of the creation of the layer, an assumption which is not in the least provable nor reasonable to assume. It also assumes a totally continuous and predictable decay from parent to daughter, an assumption that is not only not provable but has known, proven exceptions. All premises for earth's age are indirect, proxy measurements, where the proxies are highly questionable.

Evolution is supported by untestable "Just So Stories" which are hypotheses that not only are not testable, but also change from time to time. Incompatible data is placed into a category called "Problematica" where it is subsequently ignored. Descent is no longer thought to expand species, but under "cladistics theory" descent collapses into "clades" of similar sister groups. The Cambrian Explosion completely deflates the concept of descent from a common ancestor, since all main categories of living things occur at roughly the same geologic time, and none of these categories spawns new, unrelated categories, even over the projected "millions of years". What actually is observed is the elimination of categories of creatures, creatures which first appear fully formed, not partially evolved.

All of these "sciences" are non-empirical, non-Enlightenment, non-testable hypotheses which happen to be useful to Atheism. Atheism and the self-worship of man as the intellectual apogee of the universe is the unprovable religious cant of most "scientists" and sufficient numbers of educators and legislators to save the Materialist Ideology from being called what it is: not actual scientific, objective, provable knowledge.

In fact, Materialism is itself an unprovable premise, one which leads directly to "No Free Will" and when examined is found to be logically non-coherent. That fits well with Atheist ideology.


1 comment:

Steven Satak said...

That business in NM was always about politics. The American Public has no idea what the 'scientists' really believe, behind the closed doors of the staff lounge. Darwin is only the party line. So is AGW. They are the means to power and money, as they affirm the worst tendencies of corrupted men and reward an indulgence of vice with positive approval.

Thus the proliferation of baby killing, celebration of sexual deviancy and the wide-spread practice of rape, molestation and the mutilation of the English language.