Galactic Tests of Science's First Principle
A first principle is a
foundational assumption for a natural science. First principles cannot
be
proven. However, they can be disproved by the preponderance of simple,
non structured, non
mathematical evidence. In order to not assume the consequent (circular
reasoning), a test of a
first principle must not rely on the scientific structure. This is
because a first principles is the
historical, elementary foundation for the entire scientific structure.
Modern science first began when the
pagan Greek philosophers debated first principles (about
2600 years ago). Imagine that a philosopher proposed a planetary
theory. If the properties of
matter are emerging, planet orbits (along with everything else) would
gradually change. In that
case, they could not understand long ago orbits or predict ones in the
distant future. The Greeks
had several first principles, each trying to solve how or if matter
changes. Students during the
apostolic age could choose a different version of science, since each
fundamental assumption
resulted in a different science. The historical basis for Western
science was Aristotle's
elementary idea. He wrote that we must
ASSUME that the properties of matter are fixed and
build all knowledge on changelessness, even though none is observed.
Aristotle's idea did not
achieve the status of authoritative dogma during the classical age.
Fifteen hundred years later,
Friar Aquinas convinced the popes to authorize Aristotle's metaphysics
(his elementary
assumption) in European universities. Over
the next seven hundred years, Westerners invented
definitions of matter and time, measuring units, mathematical
constants, laws of physics and
earth-histories - all because they presumed that the properties of
matter are not emerging.
The simplest way to test the
scientific assumption is with visible evidence. We can see the
past
and directly compare the properties of ancient and modern matter. All
matter (from different eons
/ ranges) shines with light frequencies unlike those from local, modern
atoms. Indeed, the
youngest matter (the farthest away) shines at tiny fractions of the
frequencies of modern atoms.
This suggests that atoms change relationally. (Relational changes are
where the properties of
each bit of matter change in parallel). No perpetual motion atoms are
visible in the whole
universe. Yet scientists use their concept of immutable atoms to define
their clock-time ideas and
their measuring units for distance, velocities, mass, energy, gravity
and thousands of other units.
(Immutable means: not subject to variation in form, quality or nature).
Galactic history is powerful evidence
against the scientific presupposition. Primordial galaxies
were naked (no spiral arms) yet we often see them in equally spaced
chains, like pearls on a
necklace. At closer ranges, we see discrete, equally-spaced star clumps
surrounding many ancient
cores. This is HUDF galaxy 4438 a faint (-21.17 magnitude) primordial
spiral galaxy. It is just one of
ten thousand 
extremely faint galaxies
in NASA's Hubble Ultra Deep Field
photo. The light from
this ancient galaxy shines at 50% of the light frequencies of modern
atoms. The galaxy has two spiral arms that have only rotated out about
half a turn. (The star globs are bluish
because they shine at
relatively higher frequencies than the core). The left arm is made of a
string of distinct, blue globs. In closer galaxies, we
observe that the star clumps
have spread out and made more revolutions to form continuous spiral
arms of dust and stars. By
comparing innumerable spiral galaxies at many ranges, we see that the
stars came out and spread
out - growing into huge, local, dusty, growth-spirals. Galaxies cannot grow unless the properties
of matter always change. What we see in the distant universe violates
scientific definitions,
measuring units, mathematics and theories because it denies their
fundamental assumption.
Biblical physics is not based on an
elementary idea from a pagan Greek. It is based on elementary
statements in the Bible. The first principle of biblical physics cannot
be used as the basis for a
great and proud science. Why not? Not a single constant, not a single
bit of matter is observed to
follow the scientific assumptions about changelessness (atomic
perpetual motion). The Bible
repeatedly (in Hebrew) states that the heavens spread out in unbroken
continuity, that the stars
continually come out. Indeed, in the creation account God incompletely
places the Sun, Moon
and stars in the raqiya, the spreading out place. What the Bible states
is visible - the visible
history of the universe.
Why can't scientists believe the
visible history of the universe? They have a historical first
principle that is the foundation for their entire structured way of
thinking, measuring and
mathematicating. They do not know how to think any other way.
This is doubtless why the
scientific universe is 99% invisible. All of their stories about a
vacuum explosion and vacuous
invisible processes were contrived with their dogma that the properties
of matter are not
emerging. Yet the universe fits the
simplicity of biblical physics and biblical cosmic history.
The Apostle Paul warned that the stoicheion (first principles) of
philosophy can hold us captive.
If everything you think you know about earth-history depends on one
elementary assumption, and
that assumption is visibly false in billions of galaxies, then you are
a captive of an elementary
assumption. The words of the Bible
can set you free from this visibly false assumption!
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