A reliable witness always tells the truth, but an unreliable one tells nothing but lies.
(Proverbs 14:5) Good News Translation
If you choose to believe what unbelievers write and say about the Bible, because you don’t want it to be true, you’re just fooling yourself, or attempting to. You’re using circular reasoning.
The Bible isn’t an opinion. What you decide to believe about the Bible is your opinion. A choice. Failed science (SciPop) doesn’t have any proof that the Bible is wrong because because the proof it claims to have depends on you choosing to believe it. Science = faith. Absence of evidence proves nothing.
IF and THEN form the basis of the religious practice of circular reasoning which is an integral part of SciPop. They work together like logical fudge to allow the rationalization of physical evidence within the paradigm. The basis of faith in SciPop looks something like this:
Circular Reasoning in SciPop 1
- IF humans evolved,
- THEN it’s necessary to believe that the Earth is billions of years old.
- IF the Earth is billions of years old,
- THEN it’s necessary to believe that radioactive isotopes have always decayed at a constant rate.
- IF radioactive isotopes have always decayed at the same rate,
- THEN it’s necessary to believe that the Earth is billions of years old.
- IF the Earth is billions of years old,
- THEN it’s necessary to believe that humans evolved.
Here’s another example:
Circular Reasoning in SciPop 2
- IF the Earth orbits the Sun,
- THEN it’s necessary to believe that stars are distant suns and galaxies.
- IF stars are distant suns and galaxies,
- THEN it’s necessary to believe that our solar system formed billions of years ago.
- IF our solar system formed billions of years ago,
- THEN it’s necessary to believe that the stars are distant suns and galaxies.
- IF the stars are distant suns and galaxies,
- THEN it’s necessary to believe that the Earth orbits the Sun.
There’s an advanced form of circular reasoning which we call inductive, reductive circular reasoning. It incorporates other branches and sub-disciplines of science such as stellar spectroscopy and radiometric dating. Radiometric dating is pseudoscience.
Salvation
- Call upon the name of Jesus Christ,
- believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead,
- confess your sin.
You have a fundamental misunderstanding about what circular reasoning is. A circular argument would be something like this. Joe is a moral person because he is a pastor and pastors are moral people.
What youโve accused science of is not circular reasoning instead this are evidence based conclusions. Also none of the conclusions actually logical follow each other. For example noting the existence of distant star implies nothing of their age logically speaking. Those are conclusions based on other lines of evidence.
See in science our conclusions are based on observation experimentation and modeling. We use this to infer the best explanation for what we observe.
Unlike your paradigm were you start with a conclusion and then make stuff up to support it. Science is inherently superior to what your doing.
Circular reasoning is where you assume heliocentricity in order to calculate the mass of the sun, then use that value as proof of heliocentricity.
Okay you didnโt address anything you failed to address anything I said. Instead you pivoted to refute an argument I did not make. This is called a red herring and its a dishonest tatict