New Scientist

What percentage of Americans believe ATLANTIS is real? Find out the truth in our latest video:https://youtu.be/o74w5rDpMXo?si=9JIx0...

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@tubes-lut

Do they also believe it's older than 6000 years though?!?

1 day ago | 1

@OneOfEightBillion

Not even slightly surprised

9 hours ago | 1

@stefanpwinc

Horrifying

2 days ago | 3

@BethanP

Were these pre-school Americans that were asked?

2 days ago | 0

@Justin-xs2yo

Been teaching creationism in science class as an alternative “theory” to evolution for decades, this isn’t a surprise.

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@MrDuffy81

Why try to cover up the pre-flood global civilization? It’s even referred to in the Bible. Doesn’t matter what you call it. They’re trying to put a label on it to dismiss it. This is science at its worst. This is egotism, being used through the institution of science. There are enemies within the institution of science, using institution of science to shield the public from real science. These people are agents who run this channel guaranteed.

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@MrDuffy81

Science can’t get anything right. That’s because the people running the show are double agent cover-up artists.

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@TheAlchemistZero1

The Cult of Certainty: How Scientism Mistakes Symbols for Reality Abstract This essay dismantles the illusion of scientific and mathematical authority over reality. It argues that physics, mathematics, and cosmology have become modern priesthoods—fluent in symbols, blind to their own assumptions, and convinced that their linguistic constructions constitute the world itself. Beneath their precision lies an unacknowledged act of faith: the belief that their frameworks, born of human limitation, can speak for the infinite complexity of Nature. 1. Introduction: The Rise of a New Dogma Where religion once claimed the cosmos, scientism now reigns. Its prophets wear lab coats instead of robes, its scriptures are peer-reviewed, and its miracles are equations. It promises salvation through measurement, yet forgets that every instrument was built by fallible hands, every metric chosen by fallible minds. Science is not the problem; its humility is. Scientism—the conviction that empirical method alone exhausts reality—is philosophy dressed in the armor of precision, mistaking its own reflection for the world. 2. The Frame That Sees Only Itself Every experiment begins with a premise: what to measure, how to measure, what counts as real. Instruments do not reveal Nature; they negotiate with it, returning answers framed by the questions we taught them to ask. To believe otherwise is to mistake a telescope for the stars. The data that scientists prize as “objective” already arrive pre-filtered through design, expectation, and interpretation. What emerges as “fact” is not a message from Nature but a conversation among humans—mediated by language, technology, and theory. Scientism hides this circularity behind jargon and precision. Its practitioners forget that a system cannot justify its own axioms; the framework that defines observation cannot step outside itself to claim omniscience. 3. Mathematics: The Most Beautiful Pretend Game Ever Played Mathematics is sublime—but it is also make-believe. Its truths are conditional: if these axioms, then those conclusions. When physicists write the cosmos in equations, they are translating mystery into grammar. The translation is elegant, but it is not the thing itself. To claim that “the universe is mathematical” is to commit linguistic idolatry. Numbers describe patterns; they do not explain being. The formula E=mc² predicts the behavior of matter and energy—it does not tell us what matter or energy are. The certainty of mathematics is the certainty of definition, not of reality. Einstein himself warned against this confusion: the moment mathematics becomes certain, it ceases to refer to the world. The moment it refers to the world, it ceases to be certain. 4. The Mirage of Empirical Authority Modern physics and cosmology are cathedrals built on inference. Dark matter, dark energy, singularities, strings—none of these have been seen. They are invoked to preserve the internal coherence of equations that cannot account for observed phenomena. These invisible entities are not discoveries but placeholders for ignorance, named and worshipped as though naming made them real. The irony is exquisite: in fleeing metaphysics, science reinvented it. It simply changed the vocabulary. Where theologians spoke of the divine, cosmologists now speak of the singularity; both point to something unobservable that explains everything else. 5. Consciousness: The One Fact That Cannot Be Denied All observation presupposes an observer. Before there is data, there is awareness. Before there is theory, there is experience. To reduce consciousness to neural noise or quantum computation is to saw off the branch upon which knowledge sits. Science studies phenomena within consciousness while pretending to stand outside it. But consciousness is the condition of the entire enterprise—the light by which all “facts” are seen. Without it, there is no experiment, no equation, no universe as such. Thus, consciousness is not an afterthought of matter but its precondition. Every attempt to explain awareness as an emergent property of blind particles is a failure to recognize that “blind particles” are themselves ideas appearing in awareness. 6. The Human Element: Experts, Priests, and Pretenders The “expert” class often claims to speak for reality itself, as though a PhD confers divine insight. Yet their authority rests on consensus, not revelation. Peer review replaces peer thinking; specialization rewards obedience over insight. Academia has become a hierarchy of sanctioned ignorance—brilliant minds confined to narrow tunnels, mistaking the light at the end for the sun. Their jargon is a fortress built to defend not truth but prestige. To question them is to be labeled “unscientific,” a modern form of heresy. But no title or theorem exempts a human from the same fleshly frailty that binds us all. Every calculation, every cosmological model, is written by a primate briefly conscious on a tiny planet, staring into an abyss and mistaking its own reflection for the infinite. 7. Conclusion: The Return to Wonder Science is a method. Reality is an experience. To confuse the two is to turn curiosity into creed. The universe does not speak in equations; it speaks in being. The humility proper to inquiry is not the arrogance of certainty but the recognition that the map will never become the territory. Our instruments may refine the contours of what is measurable, but the immeasurable remains—the mystery that births both observer and observation. The task is not to abolish science, but to restore perspective: to remember that the finger pointing to the moon is not the moon, and that the most perfect formula will always fall short of describing the fact that anything exists at all. Reality cannot be owned by a discipline, only encountered by a consciousness. Why It Is Impossible to Produce Indisputable Evidence That Nature Is Not Infinite 1. You cannot prove non-existence beyond observational horizons. Physics is bounded by observational limits: Cosmic horizon Particle horizon Measurement precision Quantum decoherence boundaries Anything outside these horizons is not empirically accessible even in theory. Thus, any claim of a “finite Nature” requires absolute knowledge of what lies beyond all possible observation — which is impossible. You cannot prove a boundary you cannot detect.

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