Originally Posted by
Templar 331
This is basicly pseudoscientific bs. Blatantly ignoring many scientific theories and saying "science believes this so science is wrong. Buy my book." I couldn't get past the "speed of light slowed down" part. But lets talk about the "Dogmas of Science."
Dogma 1: everything is a machine.
Yeah, in a basic sense everything is. We are, the universe is. Everything follows a set of parameters. Everything is bound by limits. Stars orbit in a predictable and constant orbit unless some other force comes and knocks it out of orbit. Stars fuse matter in a constant and measurable way.
Dogma 2: Matter is unconscious.
Well duh. Everything without consciousness is unconscious. Believing particles have conscious is the very definition of pesudoscience. And anyone who references the experiment where the atom changed because it was "looked at" has no real understanding of science. It changed because of how it was looked at. It was looked at by using a nonpassive means. Meaning the tool used to see it made it change.
Dogma 3: The Laws of Nature are fixed.
For the most part, yeah. There have been several astronomers that have theorized that the laws were slightly different in the first few seconds of the big bang. And now they are fixed.
Dogma 4: The total of Matter and Energy is the same.
Yeah, that is a pretty big principle of physics. You can't destroy matter or energy. So guess what? It's the same. The only difference is when one becomes the other.
Dogma 5: Nature is purposeless.
The purpose of science is NOT to determine what purpose something has. It's to understand it's workings. "The evolutionary progress had no purpose." Really? Are you that dense? The purpose of evolving most of the time is to better adapt to your environment. Sometime it's random. So you can't say that evolution has one single purpose or none at all.
Dogma 6:Everything you inherit is in your genes.
Yeah, that's how DNA works. It gets passed down from mother and father. You inherit it. If you want to go nature vs. nurture, there's a whole lot of debate going on about that.
Dogma 7:Memories are stored in your brain.
Really? I thought they were stored in your feet. "No one knows how that works." YOU JUST FREAKING SAID HOW IT WORKS!! Just because we don't fully understand it doesn't mean we know nothing about it.
Dogma 8: Your mind is inside your head.
I can't really believe he would dispute this. But then again, this is psudoscience.
Dogma 9: Psychic telepathy is impossible.
Kind of hard to prove your psychic/telepathic.
Dogma 10: Mechanistic Medicine is the only one that works.
"Governments only fund mechanistic medicines and not alternative ones." I wonder why. It maybe because they use quantifiable means to determine if the medicine works. Not just "he ate this weird plant and now he's better." Or "he meditated for several hours a day and now he's better."
But like I said before. This is just pseudoscientific BS.