In my experience atheist science trolls (ASTs) have very little knowledge of their subjects. When challenged to explain the rationale for the basic foundations of their beliefs they can’t. When pushed to provide some shred of evidence that they actually understand what science is and where it came from there is one particular response that comes up time and time again:
“Science is true because it works.”
My friend, the fact that science works only proves that a false paradigm can have consistent internal logic.
Most people take the fact that we landed a space craft on a comet as proof that science is right about heliocentricity. However, because of the way that math works, specifically Newton’s law of gravity and the inverse square law, the gravitational calculations involved in the space flight are still accurate whether the earth orbits the sun or the sun orbits the earth.
Of course, as soon as you explain Newton to a troll they start spouting about relativity, as if Newton is now irrelevant and Einstein fixed everything. Little do they know that Einstein just covered all of Galileo, Kepler and Newton’s shortcomings with indecipherable fudge. It’s meaningless. To summarize the last 400 years of astrophysical science:
- Galileo bluffed, and since he made religious people look stupid everyone thinks he was awesome.
- Kepler either didn’t get it, lied, or intentionally built physics with a booby trap which is the equivalent of a small thermal exhaust port 2 meters wide.
- Newton used circular reasoning to rationalize Galileo’s bluff with Kepler’s booby trap.
- Einstein went off the deep end trying to straighten it out.
- Hawking substituted Science Fiction for real knowledge.
- Now everyone believes that the Star Trek universe is real.
In the alternative, Matty’s Paradigm, the mass of the sun is a tiny fraction of what it is thought to be, but since the masses of the other planets are all derived from it they are proportionally smaller. The planetary bodies have exactly the same relative proportions and gravitational relationships with each other. A space probe can’t tell the difference.
Mathematically the two models are the same except on different scales. The difference between them is relative motion. The models used by NASA and other space agencies are designed to fit our observations: they don’t define the universe. However, ASTs automatically assume that the existence of heliocentricity automatically precludes any other possibility.
Heliocentricity is a theoretical model of the empirical Geocentrospheric reality. They coexist.
This simplistic attitude is very common. Pretty much everyone these days thinks that the iPhone is so cool that they couldn’t possibly be in danger of hell fire. The overwhelming success of technology allows us to abdicate responsibility for our spiritual lives. We figure that science has eliminated spiritual problems.
The iPhone is totally cool, right? and that’s science. Therefore everything else science says must be true too, right?
You don’t need to understand science to be saved from hell and receive the free gift of everlasting life. Salvation is so simple that a little child can understand it: Believe in Jesus Christ.
And herein lies the big problem: Don’t kid yourself that science has dispelled the spiritual danger we all face. Hell is real. As a matter of fact, hell is expanding and it is the cause of global warming.
There is only one way to escape: trust in the savior, Jesus Christ.
That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation. For the scripture saith, Whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed. For there is no difference between the Jew and the Greek: for the same Lord over all is rich unto all that call upon him. For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.
( Romans 10:9-13 )
And don’t forget perhaps the greatest Bible passage of them all:
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.
( John 3:16-17 )