THE WATCHTOWER JUNE 2015 (BULLSHIT)
The latest Watchtower (online at J-Dub dot Argh!) features a hilarious article
SCIENCE in Everyday Life
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Why is it so funny to me? Mainly because the GB is trying very hard to avoid looking like Neanderthals in a modern era.
They've reversed previous teachings on everything else--so, why not Science as well?
Back in previous administrations, the GB taught Special Creation days of 7,000 years length. In fact, so firm and entrenched was this crackpot idea, it caused them to predict Armageddon TWICE based on "the End of 6,000 years of human history." For those of you who aren't aware, both failed dates (such as 1975) left the last thousand years of a "Creative Day" for the Millennium.
Now the Watchtower article deliberately ignores those horribly embarrassing failures, pretending it never happened.
Additionally, the Writing Department is excitedly enthused about this thing called GPS! Surely no J-Dub has ever heard of that before--right?
Most interesting to me is the use of a mathematician and author named Amir D. Aczel.
Who is he and what has he written?
"How to Beat the I.R.S. at Its Own Game: Strategies to Avoid and Fight an Audit," and "Chance: A Guide to Gambling, Love, and the Stock Market," as well as, "Why Science Does Not Disprove God."
What does this impressive man of science have to say which the GB wants you to know?
I don't know! They don't really say!!
They only allude that he wrote a book mentioning how unnamed scientists try to prove the non-existence of God!
TAKE A LOOK:
QUOTE FROM 1 JUNE 2015 WATCHTOWER:
“a scientific argument against the existence of God.”
– Amir D Aczel
FULL QUOTE in that author's book:
“The same year that Harris published Letter to a Christian Nation, Richard Dawkins, who for decades had been advocating atheism in public lectures and articles, released a book that received even wider circulation and global acclaim, titled The God Delusion (2006). In this work, Dawkins uses his prominence in the field of biology to launch a scientific argument against the existence of God. But in addition to using ideas from science—mainly evolutionary biology, but also a smattering of notions plucked from physics and cosmology—Dawkins embarks on a personal crusade against Scripture, especially the Old Testament.”
– Amir D Aczel, Why Science Does Not Disprove God
All of this is shabby window dressing and posturing for the public.
LOOK AT THE RIPPING AWAY OF CONTEXT HERE:
QUOTE FROM 1 JUNE 2015 WATCHTOWER:
“the absence of evidence for any God who plays an important role in the universe proves beyond a reasonable doubt that such a god does not exist.”
– A world famous physicist_ (They don't want to identify him!!)
FULL QUOTE:
“I believe I was the first to argue, in my 2007 book God—The Failed Hypothesis, that the absence of evidence for any God who plays an important role in the universe proves beyond a reasonable doubt that such a god does not exist.
“It is inarguable that science has not yet found evidence for a god or the supernatural. If it had, it would be in the textbooks. Still, you will often hear: “Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.” Not always. When the evidence that is absent is evidence that should be there, then that can be taken as evidence of absence.
“Consider the hypothesis that elephants roam Yellowstone Park. If that were the case, then a tourist or ranger should have been spotted one by now. Or, other evidence such as droppings and crushed bushes would certainly be found. Since none of this has occurred, we can conclude beyond a reasonable doubt that elephants do not roam Yellowstone Park.
“Incidentally, note that the often-heard statement that you cannot prove a negative is simply wrong, including the negative that there is no God.
“And so it is with the hypothesis of the existence of the God worshipped by Jews, Christians, and Muslims and others among the major religions of the world. Religious apologists and even some atheistic scientists have contended that God is a “spirit” and so science can say nothing about him. However, this particular hypothesized God plays such an active part in the universe that evidence of his actions should be observable.
“Earlier I discussed several examples of phenomena that should be seen if such a God exists. The fact that they are not is proof beyond a reasonable doubt that this God does not exist. Note that this proof does not apply to all conceivable gods, such as the impersonal deist god who creates the universe but does not intervene any further. While such a god is not ruled out, we have no reason to pray to it or worship it, so it might as well not exist.
“In addition, I have provided unique counter examples to the questions often raised by believers that claim to show the need for some kind of god.”
– Victor J Stenger, Emeritus Professor of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Hawaii and Adjunct Professor of Philosophy at the University of Colorado
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Final Example:
QUOTE FROM 1 JUNE 2015 WATCHTOWER:
“We know that we will never get to the bottom of things”
– Steven Weinberg, physicist and Nobel laureate
FULL QUOTE:
“The important thing is that we have not observed anything that seems to require supernatural explanation.
“I can image how disturbed they will feel in the future, when at last scientists learn how to understand human behaviour in terms of the chemistry and physics of the brain and nothing is left that needs to be explained by our having an immaterial soul.
“We know that we will never get to the bottom of things, because whatever theory unites all observed particulars and forces, we will never know why it is that the theory describes the real world and not some other theory.
“Worse, the worldview of science is rather chilling. Not only do we not find any point to life laid out for us in nature, no objective basis for our moral principles, no correspondence between what we think is the moral law and the laws of nature, of the sort imagined by philosophers from Anaximander and Plato to Emerson.”
– Steven Weinberg, quoted in James W Sire’s book Echoes of a Voice: We are not alone
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Retracting the 7,000 year Creation Day would be too embarrassing.
Instead, as you've just read, they've quietly gone silent while embracing IGNORANCE!
Now that's where they've been all along, isn't it?
