Sunday, August 14, 2016

Scientific AbraCadabra

"There's a mathematical probability.  That's what chance basically used to mean.  And then it kind of got broadened a little bit and took on broader application to include any unpredictable event, any sort of probability no matter how remote, or any coincidence no matter how seemingly impossible.  

But let me tell you about chance.  Chance doesn't exist.  It’s nothing, absolutely nothing.  Chance is a word used to explain something else.  But chance isn't anything.  It's not a force.  Chance doesn't make anything happen.  Chance doesn't exist.  It's only a way to explain something else.  Chance didn't make you meet that person; you were going there when she was going there, that's why you met her.  Chance didn't have anything to do with it because chance doesn't exist.  It's nothing.  But in modern Darwinism, it’s been transformed into a force of causal power.  It's been elevated from being nothing to being everything.  Chance makes things happen.  Chance is the myth that serves to undergird the chaos view of reality.

This is so fraught with problems from a rational or philosophical viewpoint, you hardly know where to begin.  How do you get the initial matter upon which chance operates?  Where does that come from?  You would have to say, "Well, chance made it appear."  This sounds so ridiculous, and yet this is the undergirding philosophy behind Darwinism.  It is completely incoherent and irrational.  But the new evolutionary paradigm is chance.  And it's the opposite of logic.  You see, when you abandon logic and logic says, "Oh, there's a universe.  Hmm. Somebody made it."  What else would logic say?  "There's a building, somebody made it.  There's a piano, somebody made it.  There's a universe, more complex than a building, infinitely more complex than a piano, somebody, somebody who is very, very powerful and very, very intelligent made it."  You say, "No, no, chance made it."  Listen folks, that's rational suicide, that's not logical.  

Logic abandoned leaves you with myth.  And the enemies of mythology are empirical data and God-given reason.  So in order to be an evolutionist and believe that chance makes things happen, you have to do two things: reject the empirical data, and be irrational.  But if you love your sin enough, you'll do it.  You see, if you can just eliminate the empirical data, the evidence, and get rid of God-given logic---those two things are the essence of pure science---if you can get rid of those things,  then mythology runs wild.  

And as one writer said, "Chance is the new soft pillow for science to lie down on."  Arthur Koestler said, "As long as chance rules, God is an anachronism."  If chance rules, God can't rule.  Chance deposes God.  The very existence of chance rips God from His sovereign throne.  If chance as a force exists even in the frailest form, God is ungodded...if there's such a word.  The two are mutually exclusive. Either there is a God who created the universe, who sovereignly rules and sovereignly controls, or there's not.  If chance exists, (philosophically) it destroys God's sovereignty.  If God is not sovereign, then He's not God.  If He's not God, then there is no God and chance rules.  That's frightening.

But chance is not a force.  Chance can't make anything happen.  Chance isn't anything, it doesn't exist.  It has no power to do anything,  because it isn't anything.  It’s impotent, because it's nothing.  It has no power because it doesn't exist.  Are you getting it?  Since chance doesn't exist, it can't produce anything.  It can't be the cause of any effect. 

Yet modern evolutionists talk about chance all the time.  It's just nothing but hocus-pocus.  It's the oldest and most inviolable law of science, logic and reason.  Any of you who ever took debate or studied any of the rational philosophers remember the statement: Ex nihilo, nihil fit; out of nothing, nothing comes.  And chance is nothing.  This line of reasoning is rational suicide.

So when scientists attribute instrumental power to chance, listen carefully, they have left the domain of reason, they have left the domain of science.  They have turned to pulling rabbits out of hats."  (source)