Showing posts with label science. Show all posts
Showing posts with label science. Show all posts

27 November 2025

Christians, Science and Phenomenology

The word ‘science’ means knowledge. The ‘what is wisdom to man is foolishness to God’ remark of Paul is applicable to scientific knowledge too. There is a difference between spiritual concerns and the experience of the world; the world is good as a product of God yet there is thermodynamics in it that contain willfulness to a certain extent. It is difficult to say how far human freedom is limited within the secular for the answer lies in metaphysical uncertainty. We know from Genesis that Adam and Eve and presumably the entire realm of being was changed when they were cast from the Garden of Eden after eating of the tree of knowledge. Then there is the issue of Wittgenstein's Indeterminacy of Translation concerning the interpretation of Genesis by readers.

Science occurs within a paradigm of contingent being for humans apparently enmeshed within some ultimately unknowable sort of field as innocently as Isaac was. We are spared the fate of spiritual death through Christ’s blood.

Scientific products are pragmatic in a sense- they emerged from what is knowable and practical. The logical fallacy of authority applies to science as well as political opinion. Much of scientific opinion is reliant on language definitions and descriptions of objects these days and that is a philosophically challenging field regarding linguistic epistemology. So the practical. Pragmatic opinions of science are more useful than the overly speculative.

The field of cosmology might be most relevant for Christians in regard to science; and it should be viewed with an informed awareness that it is loaded with uncertainty in theory and in interpretation of observations from sources like the Webb Infrared Space Telescope. It is fun information with new theories every week. These days pre-big bang Desiderata are paradigms for interpreting the Universe as a malleable theoretical model of about any configuration and hypothetical composition. Even the order of time or thermodynamic evolution is somewhat agnostic; that is, it is theoretically reversible or isometric mathematically, if not actually because of issues involving destruction of information in black holes, although there are theories about that too- exculpatory evidence if you like lol.

In a way Bishop Berkeley’s idealistic paradigm in his Three Dialogues still serves as a criterion for making an analogy of the experience of mind and being; that is; no one can be really certain of what it is- even with physics. In physical cosmology too the criterion in largely pragmatic. One does need faith in God who maintains or structured the reality of things- whatever they are for-themselves in regard to cosmology.

 https://garycgibson.com/2025/11/25/chatgpt-explains-a-bit-of-its-language-use-paradigm-as-a-large-language-model-based-a-i/

06 August 2025

Science and Philosophy

Science means knowledge; different approaches exist to approach the summit of an elusive, incomplete goal. Modern science, like everything else, may be contained with a vast black whole with the entire Universe as speculated by theorists following Webb observations that 60% of galaxies rotate in the same direction. Alternatively it may be within the mind of God... Incompleteness theorems...

Properties of physics of a universe inside a black hole may differ from those of a universe without. Alternatively the universe may exist on the surface of a vast black hole, as information, and the black hole itself may be composed of data points concentrated with the power of a gravitational attraction of a radically unknown nature and shape- as a field or as concatenations of discrete micro dimensions made of information. Perhaps there are different forms of information that act like different 'physical properties comparable to the way machine languages may be built with different mathematical values.

18 July 2025

The Junction of Philosophy and Science

 The junction of philosophy and science hasn't been unproductive. Consider a couple of the main points of philosophy and science of the past century. Philosophers developed logic during that time, after Frege, Brentano and Tarski logic and the philosophy of logic continued to develop. Symbolic logic, truth theories and epistemology are important in technology and science in several respects. People wonder about the nature of reality and what is real, or if reality exists because it is perceived. Considering the wave function collapsed stimulated various sorts of inquiries- there are so many theories about the Universe being made now, and of what the origins of it are that philosophy may help some people to sort it out.

Quine and Strawson of course developed logic and epistemology and especially Quine and Kripke address the meaning of language, words and objects, nominalism and pluralism and other areas concerning the reality of objects, or the alternative designation of aspects of a universal field as objects that are perceptible to human- even perceptible with human instruments to observe other wavelengths of the information reflecting in various different ways from objects that are not black bodies.

Logic and modal logic- different varieties of logic have real applications in computer science, computer operations and writing programs for scientific applications. There may be several forms of logic used in quantum computing one day that can be considered by philosophers concerning heterodox interactions with mass and energy. It doesn’t hurt to have a circumspective approach to inquiry so long as there are people that can do the math and apply correct field theories.

Modal logic applies to theological approaches to contemplation of the nature of a Multiverse with a reference frame of an eternal, omniscient and omnipotent God who foreknows everything that exists in the future and past because it is within his thought; complete Universes and a Metaverse comprised of all Multiverses would necessarily exist for an omnipotent Deity because everything that can exist, does exist somewhere in His mind, and that includes a Multiverse. Philosophy allows one to speculate about various Multiverse structures in some way differently yet complementary to existing scientific theory like Tegmark’s Level four Multiverse paradigm wherein everything that can exist does in a Multiverse and it is the human though that switches to an appropriate Universe with each idea. Pre-determinism is obvious, since it is all pre-created.

https://suno.com/s/6iWXSp1vRzKwqPlA Ravings from 16th Century Holland (song)

Such paradigms are consistent with Wheeler’s ideas about reverse causality incidentally; philosophical contemplation of the ideas of physics can at least lead to some interesting science fiction concept and perhaps sometimes to new ideas for physicist to create more and better theories,

Quine destroyed empiricism with the two dogmas of Empiricism and that was a meaningful contribution to the philosophy of science and juxtaposed with the entire quantum uncertainty/wave-function collapse field of consideration on the nature of the Universe. One may talk about physical objects for example, yet one knows with modern science that one perceives electromagnetic spectral emissions within a field that is an entanglement of massless particles in a Higgs Field- and one doesn’t actually know so well what occurs beyond the fields and field phenomena that humans experiences as beings embedded within that field.

https://suno.com/s/JmDVMUlI5c1LCjwi

Philosophy combined with science perhaps may let one consider the Universe in various ways that are not ordinary. It really is a marvelous thing to realize that the Universe is something like a dream occurring in nowhere that becomes somewhere simply because something is occurring within that infinite host nothingness or transcendent unknown.

The junction of philosophy and science hasn't been unproductive. Consider a couple of the main points of philosophy and science of the past century. Philosophers developed logic during that time, after Frege, Brentano and Tarski logic and the philosophy of logic continued to develop. Symbolic logic, truth theories and epistemology are important in technology and science in several respects. People wonder about the nature of reality and what is real, or if reality exists because it is perceived. Considering the wave function collapsed stimulated various sorts of inquiries- there are so many theories about the Universe being made now, and of what the origins of it are that philosophy may help some people to sort it out.

Quine and Strawson of course developed logic and epistemology and especially Quine and Kripke address the meaning of language, words and objects, nominalism and pluralism and other areas concerning the reality of objects, or the alternative designation of aspects of a universal field as objects that are perceptible to human- even perceptible with human instruments to observe other wavelengths of the information reflecting in various different ways from objects that are not black bodies.

Logic and modal logic- different varieties of logic have real applications in computer science, computer operations and writing programs for scientific applications. There may be several forms of logic used in quantum computing one day that can be considered by philosophers concerning heterodox interactions with mass and energy. It doesn’t hurt to have a circumspective approach to inquiry so long as there are people that can do the math and apply correct field theories.

Modal logic applies to theological approaches to contemplation of the nature of a Multiverse with a reference frame of an eternal, omniscient and omnipotent God who foreknows everything that exists in the future and past because it is within his thought; complete Universes and a Metaverse comprised of all Multiverses would necessarily exist for an omnipotent Diety because everything that can exist, does exist somewhere in His mind, and that includes a Multiverse. Philosophy allows one to speculate about various Multiverse structures in some way differently yet complementary to existing scientific theory like Tegmark’s Level four Multiverse paradigm wherein everything that can exist does in a Multiverse and it is the human though that switches to an appropriate Universe with each idea. Pre-determinism is obvious, since it is all pre-created.

Such paradigms are consistent with Wheeler’s ideas about reverse causality incidentally; philosophical contemplation of the ideas of physics can at least lead to some interesting science fiction concept and perhaps sometimes to new ideas for physicist to create more and better theories,

Quine destroyed empiricism with the two dogmas of Empiricism and that was a meaningful contribution to the philosophy of science and juxtaposed with the entire quantum uncertainty/wave-function collapse field of consideration on the nature of the Universe. One may talk about physical objects for example, yet one knows with modern science that one perceives electromagnetic spectral emissions within a field that is an entanglement of massless particles in a Higgs Field- and one doesn’t actually know so well what occurs beyond the fields and field phenomena that humans experiences as beings embedded within that field.

 https://suno.com/s/IhzZfxSQeoifQsgM

Philosophy combined with science perhaps may let one consider the Universe in various ways that are not ordinary. It really is a marvelous thing to realize that the Universe is something like a dream occurring in nowhere that becomes somewhere simply because something is occurring within that infinite host nothingness or transcendent unknown.

Read about the history of modern logic, and consider how computers use logic, how mathematicians use computers and logic, the way systems are modeled in sundry scientific field with computers and modal logic too in order to extrapolate permutations of controls and variables in specific modal universes- etc. Do you know who George Boole was, or Gottleib Frege? After those two symbolic logic developed for a century and continues to.

David Lewis, a philosopher, recently developed an application that can be applied to Multiverse theory- a popular enough trend among physicists concerned with string theory. Although dimensions and nothingness cannot really be defined; instead a void and mathematical conventions exist for considering and calculating relations of n dimensions,. It is useful since the advent of Everett’s Many Worlds hypothesis as an alternative way to wave function collapse ( https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-many-worlds-theory/ ) and contemporary physic’s efforts to understand quantum cosmology, quantum relativity and sundry deliberations regarding mass and energy as phenomena to use model universes. One may do as much with that as thought allows supported today with advanced computational logic structures.

Here is what Gemini said about David Lewis's viewpoint; "Model realism, particularly as articulated by David Lewis, proposes that all logically possible worlds are real and exist on par with our own, while the multiverse is a broader concept suggesting the existence of multiple universes, potentially with different physical laws. While both concepts involve multiple "worlds," their core ideas and motivations differ: model realism is a philosophical stance on possibility, whereas the multiverse is a cosmological hypothesis.

Here is one intersection of a philosopher and a physicist;

The physicist Max Tegmark advanced the Math Universe Hypothesis- “Tegmark's Level IV multiverse, the culmination of his four-level hierarchy, posits that . This means that any mathematical structure, even those with physical laws vastly different from our own, represents a distinct universe within this level. This level is based on the idea that reality is fundamentally mathematical, and therefore, any mathematical reality must exist.”-quote from Gemini.

On George Boole, Gemini said "Boole's work combined mathematics, logic, and philosophy, aiming to formalize the laws of thought and reasoning. He saw his system as a way to represent logical operations and derive conclusions mechanically, not as a philosophical system. " Philosophy is often like that, providing expansive thought paradigms that can be applied to various fields of thought. Interdisciplinary thought is some of the most creative in the process of inventing or inducting new ideas in science and technology. I don't know why you want to draw such a distinction between purely academic and non-academic philosophers either. Progress obviously often occurs with unconventional and synthetic recombinations of ideas from various fields. It is not always a tight little system developed by academic scientists, or professional scientists working in laboratories for corporations or the Chinese Communist party in professi

09 March 2025

When Scientists Attack Christianity

 Everyone is learning. Honest inquires aren’t stupid. Science means knowledge. Materials science has a lot of investments and is monetarily rewarding and protected and defended like any vested business. It is those scientists and minions, that full of themselves, venture unscientific opinions or crackpot opinions regarding philosophical and spiritual affairs beyond their ken. Some scientists have the problem of being experts in one field they feel themselves authorities to extend their beneficence over all realms, making themselves seem like arrogant idiots.

https://www.udio.com/songs/nQVh9JMkP97bQArhTwmLTs

I like science a lot having grown up in an era where Linus Pauling, Albert Einstein, Watson and Crick et al were making ground breaking discoveries routinely and/or their ideas like special and general relativity were being popularized. Yet the anti-Christian crowd of the post-deconstruction era have poisoned the atmosphere of the public toward a Godless lifestyle they hold dear. There is no question that they have created a civil divide that is lasting.

Scientific knowledge is itself challenging to keep up with. New expensive hardware brings new insights and opportunities to test theories. I like cosmology and computer science and have little time for biology. Long ago I was quite interested in it and all fields reading such scientific publications that were easily available in libraries and over the counter like Scientific American (before it was bought by the Dutch). I watched Attenborough’s Life in Earth series when it was new in the early 80s yet by then I had learned of evolution at least 20 years before. I am also Christian and learned a lot about Biblical composition and history. Philosophical history and linguistic, analytic philosophy and logic reading let me more readily understand how the indeterminacy of translation applies in all fields. W.V.O. Quine left a book that was a series of Tarner Lectures named ‘Ontological Relativity’ wherein he explained that different ontology exists for various languages and fields each with their own unique and untranslatable lexicon. Knowing that word means have different values in different lexicon or a different ontology as a set of meanings, concepts and ideas lets one assemble meanings from the Bible better. Even deictic references such as occur with Urartu/Ararat, geology and the prehistorical researches and discoveries supporting the Bible and prehistorical and early human settlements such as the 10th millennium B.C. Gobeki Tepe in Anatolia may be combined with historical climate change for increased understanding.

It is quantum mechanics today that lets one better understand the nature of reality. It is a paradoxical key to enter the realm of uncertainty and a Higgs Field entangling massless two-dimensional wave fluctuation that observed appear as particles. Philosophical considerations of the nature of mind and object, as well as language reveal that physicalism also known as materialism or matter is founded almost upon nothing with a very mysterious foundation premise of a field made of the unknowable presently without time except within itself as it is manifest. Time is then a relative condition of location in the space-time field.

Nothing is stupid except to make assertions about noumenon or operative noumena (i.e. extra-terrestrials cannot exist in this Universe) that cannot be supported. That applies to atheist assertions regarding God. Christians know what they believe and why. It is a faith after all and one that all the scientists that fit on the metaphorical head of a pin in a star trek transporter room when shrunk and on the way to some place beyond the Universe because it has no distance scale when not enmeshed in it, could controvert.


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