http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/scientism/ en-us Sun, 14 Mar 2010 14:47:53 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2470753/posts There has been an attempt ongoing for some time to harness the respectability of science and conflate it with an increasingly popular philosophy known as scientism. But scientism and science are different things. The latter is a powerful method of obtaining and applying material facts and information. The latter creates a subjective world view using the pretense that science has the capacity to tell us objectively right from wrong, the ethical from the unethical, best from worst, etc.. Second Hand Smoke via First Things http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2470753/posts#comment Sun, 14 Mar 2010 14:47:53 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2461569/posts In an article titled, “Survey Asks Students When They Lost Virginity,” writer Bob Unruh reported, “A team of lawyers who advocate for parental rights is working with parents whose children attend Ventura High School in Southern California to raise a formal objection after teachers had students fill out a survey on sex with questions such as “Are you sexually active” and “If not, why not?” ( http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=126030 ) Many prophetic voices have tried to warn Americans that they and their society are quickly falling into the abyss of human and satanic decadence, madness, mayhem, and murder that engulfed Russia after... Renew America http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2461569/posts#comment Mon, 1 Mar 2010 14:11:17 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2452370/posts The Foundation If we and our posterity...live always in the fear of God and shall respect His Commandments...we may have the highest hopes of the future fortunes of our country.... But if we...neglect religious instruction and authority; violate the rules of eternal justice, trifle with the injunctions of morality, and recklessly destroy the constitution which holds us together, no man can tell how sudden a catastrophe may overwhelm us and bury all our glory in profound obscurity." Daniel Webster, Address to the New York Historical Society, 1852, http://www.earstohear.net/Separation/warnings.html Heedless to the warnings of wise men like Daniel Webster, since the... Renew America http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2452370/posts#comment Tue, 16 Feb 2010 13:17:31 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2452201/posts WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Scientists have created the hottest temperature ever in the lab -- 4 trillion degrees Celsius -- hot enough to break matter down into the kind of soup that existed microseconds after the birth of the universe. They used a giant atom smasher at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory in New York to knock gold ions together to make the ultra-hot explosions -- which lasted only for milliseconds. But that is enough to give physicists fodder for years of study that they hope will help them understand why and how the universe formed. "That temperature... Yahoo! News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2452201/posts#comment Tue, 16 Feb 2010 04:07:54 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2452214/posts A meteorite that hit the town of Murchison, Australia, hasn't quit giving up its secrets. The Murchison meteorite is one of the most studied space rocks because many pieces were recovered after it was seen breaking up as it fell through the atmosphere in 1969. Approximately 100 kg of the carbonaceous chondrite was recovered. Carbonaceous chondrites are extremely important to scientists as they were formed from material that existed in the solar system's planet-forming disk of gas and dust. They are, quite literally, time capsules holding onto a 4 billion year old record of the birth of our solar system.... Discovery News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2452214/posts#comment Tue, 16 Feb 2010 04:30:53 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2447859/posts It is time to take stock: What has the intelligent design movement achieved? As science, nothing. The goal of science is to increase our understanding of the natural world, and there is not a single phenomenon that we understand better today or are likely to understand better in the future through the efforts of ID theorists. If we are to look for ID achievements, then, it must be in the realm of natural theology. And there, I think, the movement must be judged not only a failure, but a debacle. Very few religious skeptics have been made more open to... First Things http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2447859/posts#comment Tue, 9 Feb 2010 23:15:53 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2435697/posts Freeper gets a fascinating contract listed on Intrade, bets that the experiment will be replicated, and cashes in. In 2008, Dr. Yoshiaki Arata performed a fascinating experiment with Deuterium Gas loaded onto a Palladium matrix, and without any input power, showed that there was some excess heat. Generating excess heat in cold fusion cell wasn't a new development -- scientists had been replicating the Pons-Fleischman effect for 2 decades. What was a new development was how easily replicable this particular experiment was. It seemed to me that this would be the easiest way to replicate anomalous heat production, removing the... Exclusive Article for Free Republic http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2435697/posts#comment Sat, 23 Jan 2010 20:28:49 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2415172/posts SCIENCE is one of the great achievements of the human mind and the biggest reason why we live not only longer but more vigorously in our old age, in addition to all the ways in which it provides us with things that make life easier and more enjoyable. Like anything valuable, science has been seized upon by politicians and ideologues, and used to forward their own agendas. This started long ago, as far back as the 18th century, when the Marquis de Condorcet coined the term "social science" to describe various theories he favored. In the 19th century, Karl Marx... San Gabriel Valley Tribune http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2415172/posts#comment Sat, 26 Dec 2009 02:34:53 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2414309/posts Emails from a number of high profile climate scientists (e.g. Phil Jones at University of East Anglia) were leaked to the world revealing intentional efforts to manipulate climate data and report results inaccurately for the sake of globalism. Any self-respecting individual who has been told with a straight face that science is and objective methodology for obtaining knowledge should now be questioning how it is possible that something so profoundly objective could produce "Climate Gate." The answer is quite simple: it's the Religion of Science. Aaron Opine Blog http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2414309/posts#comment Thu, 24 Dec 2009 06:24:54 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2406797/posts For the past 150 years archaeologists have been verifying the exact truthfulness of the Bible's detailed records of various events, customs, persons, cities, nations, and geographical locations. Dr. Nelson Glueck probably the greatest modern authority on Israeli archeology, has said, “No archeological discovery has ever controverted [overturned] a Biblical reference. Scores of archeological findings have been made which confirm in clear outline or in exact detail historical statements in the Bible. And, by the same token, proper evaluation of Biblical descriptions has often led to amazing discoveries.” In every instance where the Bible can be, or has been checked out... alwaysbeready.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2406797/posts#comment Sun, 13 Dec 2009 22:41:34 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2405748/posts Introduction The famous evolutionist Julian Huxley once said, "Any view of God as a personal being is becoming frankly untenable. The difficulty of understanding the functions of a personal ruler in a universe which the march of knowledge is showing us ever more clearly as self-ordered and self-ordering in every minutest detail is becoming more and more apparent" (Essays of a Biologist [New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1923], p. 217). His sentiments were echoed by the British philosopher Bertrand Russell: "That Man is the product of causes which had no prevision of the end they were achieving; that his origin,... Bible Bulletin Board http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2405748/posts#comment Fri, 11 Dec 2009 22:38:04 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2397322/posts A new NASA study of a Martian meteorite that made headlines 13 years ago strengthens the original claim that the rock contains evidence of life on ancient Mars. Researchers at the Johnson Space Center used advanced electron microscopes that weren't available in 1996 to re-examine the magnetite crystals on the meteorite. The meteorite, called ALH84001, was blasted from the surface of Mars 16 million years ago, scientists say, and is thought to have landed on Earth 13,000 years ago. An American scientist found it in Antarctica in 1984. CBC News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2397322/posts#comment Tue, 1 Dec 2009 02:10:56 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2395155/posts November 27, 2009 Evidence of Life on Mars Lurks Beneath Surface of Meteorite, Nasa Experts Claim Nasa scientists have produced the most compelling evidence yet that bacterial life exists on Mars. It showed that microscopic worm-like structures found in a Martian meteorite that hit the Earth 13,000 years ago are almost certainly fossilised bacteria. The so-called bio-morphs are embedded beneath the surface layers of the rock, suggesting that they were already present when the meteorite arrived, rather than being the result of subsequent contamination by Earthly bacteria. “This is very strong evidence of life on Mars,” said David Mackay, a... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2395155/posts#comment Fri, 27 Nov 2009 01:05:51 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2392746/posts Darwinism and the adoption of Chinese Marxism According to James Pusey, writing in Nature, "Charles Darwin's banner was first unfurled in China during the Reform Movement of 1895-98, in response to China's defeat in the Sino-Japanese War." There were two groups seeking change: the reformers, who were loyal to the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and the revolutionaries, who wanted a clean break with the past. --snip-- The reformers and the revolutionaries debated vigorously "with both sides wildly waving Darwin's banner" The leaders of these movements imbibed the message of scientific racism coming from America and Europe and presented themselves as 'fit'... Science Literature http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2392746/posts#comment Mon, 23 Nov 2009 17:37:11 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2390801/posts Amateur fossil hunters Jamie and Jonathan Hiscocks were looking for dinosaur remains in East Sussex, UK, when they instead found tiny spider webs trapped inside a piece of ancient amber. Oxford University paleobiologist Martin Brasier inspected the amber, which was assigned an age of over 100 million years. He concluded that spiders back then were able to spin webs just like today’s garden spiders.The amber-encased webbing formed concentric circles like those that contemporary orb-weaver spiders manufacture. Also evident were “little sticky droplets along the web threads to trap prey,” Brasier told the Daily Mail. He added, “You can match the... ICR News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2390801/posts#comment Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:37:04 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2088896/posts As a practising priest, there was great scope for mediation when Reiss took on such a key role in such a renowned scientific institution, but sadly science and religion really do not good bedfellows make. Yet if the CERN experiment succeeds in its quest to re-create the conditions just after the Big Bang, maybe a way can be found to understand the role of a creator in the building blocks of science. Some scientists believe in the concept of a creator at work behind the Big Bang and that among the possible revelations about ‘dark matter’, anti-matter and space-time dimensions... Huliq.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2088896/posts#comment Tue, 23 Sep 2008 23:42:13 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2386391/posts In his new book, “The Greatest Show on Earth,” biologist Richard Dawkins brands those who doubt Charles Darwin’s ideas on evolution as “history deniers,” even stooping to compare them to “Holocaust deniers.” In today’s highly charged political climate, scientific debates over controversial subjects such as climate change and evolution increasingly substitute such overblown rhetoric for careful analysis. We commonly see one side depicting the other as not only wrong, but as unreasonable, irrational, or immoral. As a result, two terms are presently in vogue to describe those who question scientific ideas: “Skeptic” and “Denier.” In practice, the terms have virtually... Washington Examiner http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2386391/posts#comment Sat, 14 Nov 2009 16:48:19 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2384723/posts People who think science is dull are wrong. Here are 10 reasons why.Physics is weird. There is no denying that. Particles that don’t exist except as probabilities; time that changes according to how fast you’re moving; cats that are both alive and dead until you open a box. We’ve put together a collection of 10 of the strangest facts we can find, with the kind help of cosmologist and writer Marcus Chown, author of We Need To Talk About Kelvin, and an assortment of Twitter users. The humanities-graduate writer of this piece would like to stress that this is... Telegraph http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2384723/posts#comment Thu, 12 Nov 2009 15:51:26 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2380043/posts Fossilization occurs rapidly when the conditions are right. The conditions necessary for lithification of soft tissue give clues to unlock the history of a fossil deposit. Experiments show that microbes are involved in the mineralization of soft tissue. By decaying flesh they affect the acidity of the environment and release ions necessary for its mineralization. Fossilization in apatite seems to require associated death and decay. In the Jurassic Oxford Clay Formation in England, apatite preserved the soft tissue of many squid-like animals, probably after a mass mortality event occurred in a zone of already high phosphate levels from decaying carcasses.... AiG http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2380043/posts#comment Fri, 6 Nov 2009 16:34:54 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2377748/posts Regular readers of these pages know my little "pet name" for the leadership of the global warming hoaxers is "The Holy Church of Global Warming Moonbats" There is a Judge in the UK who believes just as I do, except he is serious. In a landmark ruling, Mr Justice Michael Burton said that "a belief in man-made climate change ... is capable, if genuinely held, of being a philosophical belief for the purpose of the 2003 Religion and Belief Regulations". UK Telegraph/The Lid http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2377748/posts#comment Tue, 3 Nov 2009 22:35:32 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2377183/posts Rethinking relativity: Is time out of joint? EVER since Arthur Eddington travelled to the island of Príncipe off Africa to measure starlight bending around the sun during a 1919 eclipse, evidence for Einstein’s theory of general relativity has only become stronger. Could it now be that starlight from distant galaxies is illuminating cracks in the theory’s foundation? .... Yet it is still not clear how well general relativity holds up over cosmic scales, at distances much larger than the span of single galaxies. Now the first, tentative hint of a deviation from general relativity has been found. While the evidence... New Scientist http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2377183/posts#comment Tue, 3 Nov 2009 05:29:43 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2374211/posts When the Fermi team did the calculations, using the most conservative estimates for how astrophysics plays into this, they determined that the mass scale must be at least 1.2 times the Planck mass, and by using reasonable but less conservative assumptions, they derived lower limits on the mass scale of up to 100 times the Planck mass. One way to interpret this is to say that there is no variation of the speed of light coming from any quantum gravity effects at less than 1.2 times the Planck mass. And given that some quantum gravity frameworks predict that effects should... Symmetry http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2374211/posts#comment Fri, 30 Oct 2009 01:58:41 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2372655/posts He [Jesus] is before all things, and in Him all things hold together." -Col. 1:17 REPORTER'S NOTE: Though I'm taking a stab in the dark (excuse the pun) with interpreting this article, one thing is certain: these scientists seem to ascribe cognizant, rational attributes to an invisible "force" that is "ruling over" dark matter in the universe. I'll let you read the article and come to your own conclusions! -Teresa Neumann, BCN. Science Daily reports that an international team of astronomers have found an unexpected link between mysterious 'dark matter' and the visible stars and gas in galaxies that could... BCN http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2372655/posts#comment Wed, 28 Oct 2009 08:26:53 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2371614/posts Experimental Data Force Researchers to Admit There’s “No Such Thing As Junk RNA” Originally, proponents of neo-Darwinian evolution lauded “junk” DNA as functionless genetic garbage that showed life is the result of blind and random mutational events. Then “junk” DNA was disproved by the discovery that the vast majority of DNA is being transcribed into RNA. Did the failure of this Darwinian assumption cause evolutionists to terminate their love affair with biological “junk”? Of course not. They just shifted their argument back, claiming that the cell is full of “junk RNA”—DNA that is being transcribed into RNA but still does... Evolution News & Views http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2371614/posts#comment Tue, 27 Oct 2009 02:57:10 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2368942/posts Years ago, National Geographic published a remarkable photograph of a polystrate fossil, a fossilized tree that extended stratigraphically upward through several layers of rock in Tennessee. Its roots were in a coal seam, and the overlying deposits included bedded shale and thin carbon-rich layers. An advocate of any form of uniformitarianism would believe that it took many, many years to deposit this sequence of layers (much longer than it takes for a tree to grow and eventually die and decay), yet one vertical fossil extends through them all. This one fossilized tree offered a direct contradiction to the evolutionary mantra... ACTS&FACTS http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2368942/posts#comment Fri, 23 Oct 2009 02:38:11 GMT