Didactic Mind, Ep 63: The Science Delusion

This week's episode covers a wide-ranging number of topics about science and the misguided faith that we put into scientists themselves. I start off by talking briefly about the Storming of the Hill, move on to Big Tech censorship and the ways in which you can avoid its impacts, and then get on to talking about what science really is. I discuss how the scientific method works, why it is limited in terms of its ability to explain the world, and why it is so dangerous to put blind faith and trust in scientists themselves. Links to all of the references that I provide - and there are a LOT - are given below.

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Books referenced in the podcast:

• I Don't Have Enough Faith to be an Atheist by Dr. Norman Geisler and Dr. Frank Turek;
• Darwin's Doubt: The Explosive Origin of Animal Life and the Case for Intelligent Design by Dr. Stephen Meyer;
• The Origin of the Species by Charles Darwin;

Other books that you will probably find useful in this discussion:

• The God Delusion by Prof. Richard Dawkins - it's actually quite a terrible book, with dreadful arguments and appallingly bad analogies, but it's worth reading if you want to get an idea of how Darwinian materialists "think";
• The Science Delusion: Freeing the Spirit of Enquiry by Dr. Rupert Sheldrake - this is a direct answer to and refutation of the most egregiously foolish arguments made by the New Atheists, such as Dawkins;
• Science Set Free: 10 Paths to New Discovery by Dr. Rupert Sheldrake;
• The Irrational Atheist: Dissecting the Unholy Trinity of Dawkins, Harris, and Hitchens by Our Beloved and Dreaded Supreme Dark Lord (PBUH) Vox Day;
• Mere Christianity by Clive Staples Lewis - this one is a bit dense, yet very readable nonetheless, and makes clear that there is NO conflict whatsoever between the Christian worldview and the scientific one;

Videos referenced in this podcast:

• The original lecture by Prof. Richard Feynman concerning the scientific method;
• The superb lecture that Dr. James Tour gave at the Discovery Institute about the problems with the materialist views of the origin of life question;
• An interview with Dr. Tour that drills deep into the specific synthetic organic chemistry problems with the origin of life issue;
• A great Hoover Institute discussion with Stephen Meyer (PhD History & Philosophy of Science), David Berlinski (PhD Philosophy), and David Gelernter (PhD Computer Science) - so these aren't exactly your garden-variety armchair experts - about the immense mathematical challenges to Darwinian evolutionary theory;

Other references:

• The South Korean doctor who falsified his cloning data is named Hwang Woo-suk, and he was tried and convicted for fraud and handed a suspended two-year sentence;
• Here's a basic introduction to the replication crisis;
  • And here's an article that talks about that finding about smiling which cannot be easily reproduced;
• The 26 testable scientific claims made in Genesis 1 and whether they are in fact correct (spoiler alert - YES);

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