Satan has built an intricate web of lies in the realm of thought called “science” that has so thoroughly captured the minds of most people that we seem to be incapable or even unwilling to free ourselves. Even we Christians have become so mesmerized with the unproven claims of modern astrophysics and evolution that many of us have given our allegiance to the words of men over the clear words of Scripture without realizing what we have done.
Harriet Tubman, who risked her own life to liberate others, is credited with saying: “I freed a thousand slaves. I could have freed a thousand more if only they knew they were slaves.” We can become so inured to lies that we accept our captivity as normal, or maybe even consider it to be exciting and pleasurable. For example, if Genesis Chapter One is literally true, and there is no biblical reason not to think that it is, then what is called “outer space” is a fantasy inspired by Satan to draw people into desiring to go beyond our assigned habitation into God’s realm on the other side of the firmament. People absolutely love the idea of traveling in space and visiting imaginary “planets.” We have believed Satan’s lies about the cosmos so completely and for so long that we have come to think the Bible’s account of creation in Genesis is primitive and unbelievable.
Thus we have come to accept a counterfeit cosmology that contradicts God’s inspired Word.
To facilitate this treachery without feeling convicted in our hearts of committing treason against God, we have devised clever ways to interpret Genesis that support the claims of anti-God evolutionary astrophysics. We actually think that such duplicity rescues the Bible from embarrassment.
By admitting that we think God’s Word cannot stand up to scientific scrutiny, we only embarrass ourselves before God.
True science consists of that which we learn about creation through observation, testing, repetition of testing, and falsification. Pseudo-science is built on a set of declarations that cannot be observed by the average person, tested, repeated, or falsified. We are required to accept its tenets by faith because of the word of credentialed experts.
Pseudoscience, therefore, is a religion based on the words of men, as opposed to Christianity which is built on faith in God’s unchangeable Word.
The particular area of speculation that I refer to in this series of articles is connected to cosmology or astrophysics. Since Copernicus, the cosmological theories that the majority of the world has come to accept as true and unassailable are based on conjecture that, once accepted as fact, requires us to accept additional lies which are necessary to make the first lie feasible.
Here is an example from a related field. Darwin’s observed natural selection at work in the Galapagos Islands. This natural process which favors living things possessing beneficial traits is observable, testable, repeatable, and falsifiable. However, from there Darwin made a giant speculative leap by theorizing that natural selection leads to the self-creation and evolution of biological life out of inanimate matter. This placed his theory beyond the scope of observation, testing, and falsification by claiming it happened eons ago. The only possible test for this speculation, which is an indirect one, is the fossil record, which does not support gradual evolution at all. A vast array of fossils appears all at once. Nevertheless, since evolution provides what some consider to be a viable “scientific” theory for the origin of life without needing a Creator, it has been enthusiastically accepted by a vast number of people, especially those who reject the authority and truth of the Bible.
Men will believe almost anything if it contradicts the Bible.
The Big Bang theory, a derivative of Darwin’s theory of evolution, speculates that the cosmos is billions of years old and also evolved and continues to evolve from nothing.
Evolution, heliocentrism, and the Big Bang compose the unholy trinity of Satan’s deception.
Since no one observes evolution happening in the present, it is speculated that it can happen, given enough time. Quite predictably, evolutionary geologists provide such a time frame by speculating that the earth is billions of years old, thus rejecting the young earth timeline of the Bible. It is now believed by most people that the earth and everything else has been around for eons.
Since all of this is outside of observable and testable science, it has to be taken on faith.
The war of such false science against the Word of God began in earnest at the advent of what is called the Scientific Revolution when Copernicus published his now revered heliocentric theory, which denied the truthfulness of the Genesis account of creation and other biblical descriptions of the world in which we live and the heavens above. Sir Isaac Newton provided the necessary framework for upholding the heliocentric system when he introduced his theory of gravity. By reputedly observing an apple fall to the ground, he made a speculative jump and reasoned that all masses attract all other masses. This theory is now accepted as a fact, even though we cannot demonstrate it in a lab. Over time the theory of gravity, like the theory of evolution, has come to be accepted as true – without proof! This is the essence of pseudoscience, or what Paul called “knowledge falsely so-called.” (1 Timothy 6:20)
Episode 2 of Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey (2014)
Those who excel at propaganda understand two important things.
If a lie is repeated often enough, it comes to be believed. Secondly, the bigger the lie, the better. This is because otherwise discerning people believe that it is impossible to hide a big lie.
The first lie in this cascading stream of deception came from Copernicus. The second necessary lie came from Newton. From there it was speculated that there must exist a vast emptiness of “outer space” which is a vacuum. Otherwise, Copernicus’ orbits around the sun would be slowed by friction. Eventually such thinking produced what is perhaps the biggest lie of all – the Big Bang, a theory developed by a Jesuit priest named Georges Lemaître in 1927.
To accept heliocentrism, we must reject the Genesis account of creation. This makes it necessary to develop an alternate creation story, which the Big Bang, perhaps derived from the Jewish Kabbala, purports to provide.
In 1973, Fred Hoyle, a prominent British astronomer wrote:
“The heliocentric system is not more accurate than the geocentric one in predicting the apparent motions of the planets, but it is philosophically more satisfying because it avoids the arbitrary assumption that the Earth is in some way special.” (“Nicolaus Copernicus: An Essay on His Life and Work,” 1973)
This is a good summary of what has come to be known as the Copernican Principle, that earth is nothing special, nor are humans, which is a contradiction of the Bible. It is a philosophy that drives people to embrace an anti-God and anti-Bible belief.
Michio Kaku, a famous astrophysicist, admitted that modern astrophysics is largely speculation in a video clip included in the documentary entitled The Principle by Robert Sungenis.
“Usually in science, if we’re off by a factor of 2 or a factor of 10, we call that horrible. We say, ‘Something’s wrong with the theory.’ We’re off by a factor of 10! However, in cosmology, we’re off by a factor of 10 to the 120th. That is, one with a hundred and twenty zeros after it. This is the largest mismatch between theory and experiment in the history of science.”
Grok AI summarizes Kaku’s statement as follows:
Michio Kaku has discussed the speculative nature of modern astrophysics and cosmology in several interviews and talks, emphasizing how much relies on imagination, conjecture, and untested hypotheses due to the inability to perform direct experiments. (emphasis is mine)
Whenever such speculations contradict the Bible, we are forced to decide between belief in the Creator and a speculation that is attempting to usurp God’s place in our hearts and steal our allegiance.
For even though they knew God, they did not honor Him as God or give thanks, but they became futile in their speculations, and their foolish heart was darkened. Romans 1:21 (NASB95) We are destroying speculations and every lofty thing raised up against the knowledge of God, and we are taking every thought captive to the obedience of Christ, 2 Corinthians 10:5 (NASB95)
We have now come to a time when most of the church rejects Genesis as the literally true account of creation. We have replaced the true knowledge of God with speculations of men, which the apostle Paul called “knowledge falsely so-called.” (1 Timothy 6:20)
Because we have allowed a web of “scientific” speculations to push the Word of God out of its place of having supreme authority in our hearts with regard to truth, we have become blinded to the true knowledge of God revealed in creation.
The heavens declare the glory of God; And the firmament shows His handiwork. Psalm 19:1 (NKJV)
