The Mass of the Sun

Quantities aren't really quantities, even if we give them names. Words define the thing, even though the thing may be unknown.

The current generation of Trekkie scientists assume that you can measure the mass of the sun from a deep space probe. That's what popular science (SciPop) is now, an inductive rationalization of the Star Trek universe.

The Hawking Effect

One of our favorite books is "A Brief History of Time," by Stephen Hawking. In this and his other books Hawking expands use of the scientific method as an inductive tool. He opened up the realm of plausibility.

October 30th

An old deisel train engine with the number 1687

Newton didn't make any great discoveries, he called his bold guesses great discoveries and bluffed well enough to get away with it. His Principia Mathematica boldly charges forth based on four incorrect guesses.

September 25th

Cutaway of planet Earth showing the crust, mantle, great gulf and hell.

We (that's me and the Holy spirit) are going to answer the charge that "a good God and hell can't coexist." Hell is a ball of molten radioactive slag at the center of the Earth, it's nothing personal.

July 28th

If it's good enough for Star Trek, it's good enough for popular science (SciPop). Besides, if you've seen it in a Star Trek episode you already believe it. Slam dunk.

April 21st

“Redshift” shows the danger of Peer Review: if speculation enhances the atheist narrative (SciPop), the scientific community ignores the scientific method.

April 20th

Does Einstein's relativity disprove that the universe has an absolute frame of reference? No. It's an inductive rationalization of the premise that there isn't one.

April 1st

The express purpose of astronomy is to make it seem as if the fulfillment of Biblical prophecy is ridiculous. Unfortunately this means that astronomy has had to become ridiculous. Who are you to believe? And why would you take our word for it?