The Death of #TRUTH vs. the Berlinski Factor

 

I recently picked up Comprehensive Guide to Science & Faith (Harvest House).

It's edited by Bill Dembski, Casey Luskin, Joe Holden & has a FWD>> by Stephen "God Hypothesis" Meyer.  Putting "Comprehensive" in the title is very misleading.  The Biblical position of Creation In Six Days #CISD a Global Flood and Young Earth Science (YES) is not fairly represented.  The book pushes ID & is wonky on the Historical Adam.  See here for more on #Adam ...

https://adamslostdream.blogspot.com/2014/08/god-adam-you.html

http://adamslostdream.blogspot.com/2011/06/search-for-historical-adam.html

 

Phillip "Darwin on Trial" Johnson (d. 2019), the Father of ID, started out with arn.org as his main site.  Later in life, he apparently leaned young earth: he visited the Creation Museum (KY) and went on a speaking tour in the UK with Andrew Snelling (Earth's Catastrophic Past).  Read Art Battson's work on the arn site which favors biological essentialism - the real antithesis to evolution:

http://www.arn.org/docs/abstasis.htm

 

Sadly, the "Comprehensive Guide" fails to see critical importance of Aristotle's Biology or Biological Essentialism - I wrote a whole book on the topic (400 pages worth).  Oxford University Press has a book with the same title as mine: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/biological-essentialism-9780198840282

My book Biological Essentialism came out in 2021, two years before: 

www.barnesandnoble.com/w/biological-essentialism-jay-hall/1140135320

 

David Berlinski (Ph.D. Philosophy - Princeton) was a postdoctoral fellow in mathematics and molecular biology at Columbia University.  His book Human Nature was endorsed by Victor Davis Hanson, David Galernter and Peter Robinson (Hoover Inst.) among others.  Berlinski highlights the stark contrast between evolution and biological essentialism:

 

This book ... is unified ... by a common concern for what is an indistinct concept, and that is the concept of human nature. It is a concept severely in disfavor because it suggests that there is something answering to human nature, some collocation of ineliminable and necessary properties that collectively define what it is to be a human being.  There are such properties. … And the fact that there are such properties does involve a commitment to essentialism.  No one disposing of essentialism in biology is disposed to disregard it in logic, mathematics, physics, or ordinary life. Human beings are not indefinitely malleable. There are boundaries beyond which they cannot change. We are not simply apes with larger brains or smaller hands, and the distance between ourselves and our nearest ancestors is what it has always appeared to be, and that is practically infinite. Human beings are perpetually the same, even if in some respects different. [1]

 

In an interview, Berlinski continues on the theme:

 

As an intellectual tendency, I would put the percentage of people prepared to deny essentialism at roughly 99.999%. ... Darwinian theory holds to a continua of animal forms which gradually, imperceptively, shade into one another.  The dividing line between the dogs, if you go back and back in time, doesn't end abruptly, it merges into what came before the dogs.  ... That sense of sharp boundaries must necessarily disappear - there is no room in Darwinian theory for the essentialist view of the dog's nature. [2]

 

Human Nature defends human exceptionalism, I have a whole chapter on that topic in my book:

www.barnesandnoble.com/w/biological-essentialism-jay-hall/1140135320

 

I also argue in Biological Essentialism that this premise (stasis of Essential Types of Life - ETLs) naturally leads to a Single Global Catastrophe that formed most of the rock record just a few thousand years ago.  Which in turn, favors YES.

 

In our latest video, we defend #YES & discuss the total solar eclipse, Dawkins, Kyle Mann, Jesus' AGE verses (Mk. 10:6; Mk. 13:19,20; Lk. 11:50,51), The Young Earth, Don McLeroy etc.  Many origins researchers ignore the significance of Young Earth Science (YES), but that's a serious mistake.  I provide evidence from Yandex, Rumble and SwissCows that YES is truly trending:

https://youtu.be/yEQ5xJPg5Rs

 

see also ...

Young Earth Today 2029 (blog article):  

https://youngearthscienceblog.blogspot.com/2024/01/young-earth-today-2029-young-earth-memes.html

 

On a positive note, the cover of the "Comprehensive Guide" is cool and the number one book I recommend on the proper view of Genesis is mentioned (p. 559).  Coming to Grips with Genesis (Mortenson & Ury):   

https://answersingenesis.org/store/product/coming-grips-genesis/

 

 

Notes:

[1] quoted in Biological Essentialism by Jay L. Hall (True Truth Productions, Big Spring, TX, 2021), pp. 101,102.

[2] Ibid., p. 35.

note: True Truth Productions is now in OKC.

 

Maths Challenges Evo+Darwin >>

https://youtu.be/noj4phMT9OE

 

 

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#PeterRobinson #DavidBerlinski #DavidGelernter #TrueTruth #TotalYouth

Biological Essentialism and Mr. Rogers

What is biological essentialism?  If you search online, you will get a wide variety of answers.  Historically, biological essentialism is the view that bats are bats, cats are cats and your long-lost cousin was not an ape.  Even a three-year-old can tell the difference between elephants, which can save a calf from a flooded river, and exploding ants.

 

What’s the connection to Mr. Rogers?  He said that you are not just advanced protoplasm without purpose.  I’m sure you recall the famous song:

 

You are my friend

You are special …

You are the only one like you.

Like you, my friend, I like you …

You’re special to me.

There’s only one in this wonderful world

You are special.

 

BTW, I highly recommend the film.

My latest book has a chapter on Human Nature.  Within that chapter, I investigate the reality of Human Exceptionalism.  This holds that humans are truly special and not just advanced primates.  Please get your copy of Biological Essentialism today! 

Did Koko & Friends ever build a Space Shuttle (which I saw in OKC along with ¼M others)?  Can we find something like the Wren Library (Cambridge) in the Valley of the Apes?

 

Fred McFeely Rogers (d. 2003) was a Presbyterian minister and his kids show lasted from 1968 to 2001.  He left no doubt about the “humans are special” controversy:

 

As human beings, our job in life is to help people realize how rare and valuable each one of us really is, that each of us has something that no one else has - or ever will have - something inside that is unique to all time.  It's our job to encourage each other to discover that uniqueness and to provide ways of developing its expression.

 

Rogers also made this profound statement in his commencement address at Dartmouth in 2002:

 

When I say it's you I like, I'm talking about that part of you that knows that life is far more than anything you can ever see or hear or touch.  That deep part of you that allows you to stand for those things without which humankind cannot survive.  Love that conquers hate, peace that rises triumphant over war, and justice that proves more powerful than greed.

 

Mr. Rogers knows the difference between a dog and a Mog (Bob the Dog).

He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the human heart; yet no one can fathom what God has done from beginning to end. 

I know that everything God does will endure forever; nothing can be added to it and nothing taken from it. God does it so that people will fear him. (Eccl. 3:11,14)

#MrRogers #BobDog #Dartmouth #Biological #Essentialism #Science #cats #bats #YouAreSpecial #HumanExceptionalism #TrueTruth #IMSpecial #IMHuman