Science and Tilting at Windmills
"Tilting (jousting) at windmills" comes from
Cervantes satirical novel - Don
Quixote.
Quixote read many chivalry books, which gave him a distorted view of
the world. He decided to become a knight errant and fight evil wherever
he found it. In one
adventure, the myopic Quixote thought that a windmill was an evil
giant. He lowered his lance
and charged - but a whirling wind-vane threw him and his
horse to the ground. "Tilting at windmills" has come to mean fighting
with ideas that exist only in your mind, fighting
unwinnable battles, doggedly pursuing a futile cause. Quixote's squire,
Sancho Panza, sees the world in simple, practical terms. He is wiser
than the knight-pretender, who sees everything through the
lens of his book-learning.
After much reading, many brave scientists set out to rescue the
ignorant of the world. As
self appointed knights, they sally forth to defeat the Bible. They
often imagine that the Bible is
the enemy of mankind - that it deceives the ignorant masses. Are they
pursuing a futile battle
brought on by their much learning? Generations of gallant scientists
have jousted with the
Bible. They die off one by one, but the Bible is still the most popular
book in the world. Are
they tilting at windmills?
The Bible claims to be the Creator's communication to man.
Its version of reality is simple, non
mathematical and not dependent on difficult ways of measuring. Yet the
Bible is not ignorant of
the many-books approach. It commands us not to be wise in this
age - because we will deceive ourselves. The
reason is that God is taking the wise. He intends to make their wisdom
into foolishness. The Bible warns us of the elementary principles of
philosophy that can take our minds captive. It
even
informs us that we should "know this first"
that false teachers will come saying "panta outos
diamenei - all things remain the
same in being." The false teachers will
interpret
cosmic-history and geologic-history with their idea that
all things remain the same in being, that matter does not change with
age.
The universe is vast beyond measure. In many directions it is
clear of obscuring matter so that we
can see all the way back to the
creation era. We do not need book-ideas: mass, time, gravity or
mathematics to
see the universe. We
actually see the history of the universe with optics in all directions
through many eras (ranges). Since
taxpayers pay for the space telescopes, the pictures
of the universe are
available for all. No evidence is as simple as the visible history of
the universe. All you need to accept the visible history - is to
believe your eyes.
Do we see evidence that matter remains the same in being?
Or do we wee that the whole creation is phthora,
fundamentally changing? [Romans 8:19 - 22] No perpetual motion atoms
shine from billions
of ancient galaxies. Yet,
like Quixote, many scientists approach reality with the narrow view
they got from their book learning -
most of which depends on
their concept of perpetual motion atoms. Even their system of measuring
and their mathematics is based on this speculation. (If matter is
changing relationally, they could not measure it locally, since it
would affect
their units, their mathematics and their instruments - together.) Yet
such changes are visible with eyeballs. Isn't
it myopic
- to see
perpetual motion atoms where
none are visible? It is worse than myopic. Scientists pursue their
concept of unchanging matter to
the most extreme lengths. They actually invent an invisible universe,
full of vacuous processes
and invisible matter, to preserve their dogma that matter does not
change with age. They actually claim that the universe
is 99% invisible, yet all the
invisible things were contrived to protect their Quixotic approach to
reality, that atoms are perpetual motion machines.
The evidences for biblical physics and biblical cosmic
history
are simple. We see how the galaxies formed. What we see fits the Hebrew
descriptive nouns and verbs for how God continually forms the heavens.
We see simple, visible evidence that all
matter is always
changing its properties as it ages. The farthest galaxies are naked,
packed with
close together stars. At many ranges we see
little globs of stars coming out and spreading out. When we compare
atomic clocks at many ranges, all of them keep accelerating throughout
cosmic history. The closer they are to us, the faster the clocks
tick. We also
see that galactic orbits accelerate as the stars and gas move out in
lanes - as billions of
galaxies grew into huge growth
spirals.
Here is a
picture of Hubble Ultra
Deep galaxy #4491. When the light left long ago, its
atomic clocks clocked
less than half the frequencies
of modern atoms. The colors in this picture are relative to each other.
Red is a longer
wavelength than blue, yet none of the light shines with the high
frequencies seen in modern atoms. The most prominent feature of this
ancient galaxy is the blue chain of globular star clusters.
Apparently this is the first stage of
a spiral galaxy arm that has started to arch
around
the nucleus.
Notice anther chain of smaller blue
clusters at the top
and
several blue globs clustered at the lower end of
the
nucleus.
This galaxy is angularly larg
er, so it is apparently
a closer galaxy. (Its light is not as old relative to us).
It is Hubble Ultra Deep Field galaxy #8275.
Notice the prominent tail of star clusters, like a tadpole's tail. At
the upper end of the nucleus is an arched string
of equally spaced star clusters. The bright orange lower section is so
strange that it is not clear what its relation is to the greenish
tadpole. This is not particularly unusual. Many primordial galaxies
have strange shapes, as though they are just beginning to form the
expanded features we see locally. The atoms in this ancient galaxy
clocked about 60% of the
light frequencies of modern atoms.
Scientists
are trained with books to approach all
reality with their
basic assumption. Their entire
structured way of reasoning is based on the idea
that the properties of
matter are not emergent.
Even their ways of measuring and their
mathematics depend on this
assumption. Book learning is not bad. The Bible commands us to study.
Don Quixote took his perspective of the world only from books. His
book-learning distorted his sense of reality to the point of
ridiculousness. Is it ridiculous to invent an
invisible universe to protect a sacred dogma - that atoms are perpetual
motion machines? Isn't it simpler to accept the universe as we observe
it - without adjusting the whole universe to fit the scientific first
principle?
Carefully test
your book learning! Test the first principle of science with eyesight.
Look at the universe. What
you see is exactly what the Bible states about cosmic history. We do
not need to invent a single invisible thing to accept what we see. The
biblical universe is 100% visible. It even fits the clear simple
statements in the Bible about physics. It even fits what the Bible
states about time. Take
care that you are not tilting at a windmill.
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