Paul Feyerabend - Against Method
Three
important
epistemologists
wrote in the twentieth century. Karl
Popper wrote about
scientific subjectivism. According to Popper, a search for truth must
use negative tests - through
falsification. Positive tests use implicit assumptions, so positive
proofs rarely achieve truth.
Thomas Kuhn wrote
that science is a structured system that only works because it uses
paradigms. Paradigms control how scientists think - even how they
construct their experiments
and do their measuring. Scientists have such a strong faith in their
paradigms that they "force
nature into the conceptual boxes supplied by professional education."
Paul Feyerabend defined scientific
freedom, as governments giving scientists the freedom to
indoctrinated everyone in their methods and cosmology. In the Western
civilization, scientific methods become the objective
measure of everything, even religion. He understood science as a
narrowing of thought. Scientists
solve problems by implicitly applying assumptions, none of which can
stand a Popperian test.
Scientific theories are not objective, because scientific methods shape
and order the "facts" to
support the assumptions. Scientists combine observations with methods
and assumptions so
their insights are often detrimental to the truth. Feyerabend studied
Aristotle. I see no evidence
that he questioned the first scientific assumption - the historical
idea about change first proposed
by Aristotle. In its latter form, it is the idea that substance is
intrinsically unchanging.
The Bible predicts and exposes scientific
reasoning. Peter wrote that in the last days false
teachers will come. They interpret the age of the stars and the geology
of Earth with an idea - that
all things remain the same (panta outos diamenei). Scientists construct
almost every definition,
method, measuring unit and mathematical constant with their assumption
that atoms are
immutable and dither with perpetual motion. The Bible contains
a different principle - that the
creation is in bondage to change (Greek phthora). This principle is not
difficult to understand nor
does it require mathematical ways of measuring.
Matter and light
are a relationship that began on Day One when God commanded light to
continue to be. It was then that matter began to have form, take up
space. Light is always
dithering around in atoms - in such a way that nothing physical is
independent of light. The
universe is opaque to the passage of light, which has a finite speed.
Therefore, we can actually
see the history of the universe with optics. We can see with light how
the galaxies formed, just
like the Bible describes the forming of the stars. God finished the
heavens first, and later he
formed the Sun, Moon and stars and placed them in the spreading place
(raqiay). We see that the
earliest galaxies were naked without diffuse structures. Their atoms
gleamed at less than 1/10 the
frequencies of modern atoms. We follow at many ranges how the atomic
clocks accelerated
concurrently with the accelerating galactic star streams. We can see,
with sight, that scientific
methods and measuring presume a false assumption. Galaxies cannot grow from the insides
outward unless the properties of matter are always emerging, changing.
No wonder scientific cosmologies are almost entirely constructed
out of invisible magic and scientists reject visible cosmic history.
Their methods and
measuring were constructed on a false assumption that atoms are
immutable and dither with
perpetual motion. Only biblical physics is simple enough to allow one
to believe what is visible.
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