Wednesday, April 18, 2012

Teachers of scientific naturalism, in lock-step with their high-priest religious counterparts, realize they only have a few years to indoctrinate gullible “students” into believing their heart-felt propaganda or else students learn to think for themselves all on their own, trying to make philosophical sense of the world around them without any guidance. And we can't have that now can we? A society full of independent critical thinkers who take responsibility for their own knowledge? Surely that responsibility is too great to bear. It's much easier to offset blame on pedagogues and other outside forces isn't it?

The latest trend in higher learning is the attempt to use traditional philosophical dogma to reinforce the religion of atheism which is entirely dependent on the creation myth known as Darwinism. Irrespective of the distance traveled around the globe in search of meaning, you always return full circle to the epistemological start point. Epistemology is the discipline in philosophical academia that deals with how we know what we know, or the nature of human knowledge. I've noticed the exact same embarrassing arrogance religious teachers have shown over the centuries about scientific knowledge and philosophical dogma is precisely replicated by educators of naturalism in our present day. Both accusers pitch identical premisses in their arguments. Science claims its doctrines cannot be falsified, as do religious teachers. The battlefield for the mind is ongoing. Why? Because your mind is what controls you. It's the most important battle you'll ever fight.

I have debated evolutionists for 24 years, and have heard virtually every argument under the sun. I've also had plenty of time to filter the more highly polished quibbles through my captious mind, and have found fault with all. Anyone who knows me realizes I criticize everything, all the time... that's just how I do things. And of course I'm familiar with the debates front-lining Christopher Hitchens, Richard Dawkins, Daniel Dennet, and others. Their arguments against religion mostly center around all the evil perpetuated by mankind in the name of their various gods, moving on to poke fun of beliefs in supernatural miracles that cannot be tested with scientific certainty. What's always struck me as odd is their own failure to admit weakness in the faith that nothing intelligently guides itself into something. Just because an idea cannot be physically tested doesn't nullify it's accuracy. Religion has always presented itself outside of naturalism, so this is nothing new.

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