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Perhaps people don’t appreciate how important these objections are. I’ve been trying to point out, to a anyone who is willing to listen (and there aren’t many who have the capacity nor attention span do and so anymore), since the late 1800s and early 1900s there has been an obvious and concerted effort (whether orchestrated or not) to foster a form of moral relativism underpinned by a “scientific” basis. It seems with the expressed intent of removing any room for God.

Regardless of your individual religious views, you should question this almost pathological attempt to eradicate the opportunity for God to exist to the extent that it results in frameworks that strain credulity. Frameworks that persist despite the obvious paradoxes and fallacies that remain unaddressed lest they precipitate a god in the gaps argument. The operational goal of science then seems to have become (above ALL else even coherence itself) to expunge anything resembling theism from the foundations of natural philosophy.

The irony is that modernity has only smuggled in a new metaphysics, often more dogmatic than the one it claims to replace. Instead of faith, we get deterministic or non-deterministic models. Instead of theology, we get abstract mathematics. Instead of priests, we get celebrity scientists. Instead of awe and mystery, we get closed systems and simulation metaphors. None of which adequately address the myriad observed phenomena and all of which exhibit unaddressed paradoxes.

But I don’t have a PhD and thus I don’t get a say according to the gatekeepers. However, I always wonder to what extent being indoctrinated into the cult would have inhibited my ability to discern the rhetoric. Once you’re inside, the price of staying in appears to be that you stop asking questions that might dismantle the altar - “shut up and calculate”

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Graham R. Knotsea's avatar

Thank you, Doctor Santos, for hammering away at this fraud, and for summarizing and clarifying the arguments for us non-physicists.

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