Posted by
ValiantForTruth on Friday, December 04, 2009 1:44:48 PM
We have defined neo-science as the religious practice of radical naturalism. This article will illustrate why this is a fair description of the state of modern science.
The recent global warming fraud has already breeched the facade of scientific objectivity and integrity. But is it really the greatest fraud of modern science as some are saying? No! A much greater fraud exists that gives credence to the possibility of global warming: that the world’s existence and stability is without design or purpose and therefore subject to human intervention. But what saith the Scriptures?
Then Noah built an altar to the LORD, and took of every clean animal and of every clean bird, and offered burnt offerings on the altar. And the LORD smelled a soothing aroma. Then the LORD said in His heart, “I will never again curse the ground for man’s sake, although the imagination of man’s heart is evil from his youth; nor will I again destroy every living thing as I have done.”
“While the earth remains, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, winter and summer, and day and night shall not cease.” [Genesis 8:2-22]
Creationists have reported for over a decade on the science journal articles published about soft tissue found inside dinosaur remains. Media outlets have largely been silent on the subject. But a recent segment that aired on CBS’s 60 Minutes finally broke the news to a broader audience. The soft tissue issue is gaining traction.
Paleontologist Mary Schweitzer made an unexpected discovery in 2000 of “elastic, like living tissue” from inside the femur of a recently excavated T-rex fossil. 60 Minutes reported, “It looked like the soft tissue she would have expected to find if it had been modern bone. This was impossible. This bone was 68 million years old!” The report replayed some of the original video of the tissues taken in 2000. “They were there. Things that looked suspiciously like flexible, transparent blood vessels.”
“Being a fossil, there should have been nothing left. But there was…Blood vessels, and even what seemed to be intact cells, pose a radical challenge to the existing rules of science, that organic material can’t possibly survive even a million years, let alone 68 million.” [CBS 60 Minutes correspondent Lesley Stahl]
But it is not some arbitrary “rule of science” that dictates that flesh usually rots quickly. It is extremely well established by common observation, as well as by decades of easily repeatable experiments, that protein decay occurs in mere days. Instead, the “existing rules of science” are being challenged; that is, the deep-time evolutionary dogma that remains widely held despite contradictory evidence.
When Schweitzer’s work was originally published in the journal Science, it was greeted with more than just skepticism. Her laboratory was suspected of accidentally contaminating the samples, or worse. But her original findings were firmly established when her team—after taking great pains to prevent contamination or spoiling of specimens from the field to the lab—found even more soft dinosaur tissue, this time in another species, that was verified by a third party.
Viewing “80-million-year-old” tissue through a microscope, Stahl asked, “Is that a blood vessel?” Schweitzer replied, “This is a blood vessel. Do you see the branches right there? And look at all of them.”
But even with the evidence in front of their eyes, and despite their own incredulity, they still accepted the story that organic remnants that should have rotted long ago had somehow been preserved.
This is neo-science: adherence to the theory in disregard to the evidence. Because the theory is the religion of the pagan world that is at enmity with God and rejects the testimony of Jesus Christ.