[Catalist] Belief in Creationist Pseudoscience in Australia renaissance

[Michael McGarry]

G'day Mike,

John Lennox is prolific evangelising christian, and a serial offender in creating his own "facts".  The example you sent -- with the typical "a physicist asked me" scenario -- is the classic 'Straw Man' that Lennox  uses in many of his books.  The 'physicist' and alleged dialogue is a literary creation.  No scientist would get trapped like that in 2015 (the year Lennox wrote 'Against the Flow').  Lennox would know that discoveries in 2012 from the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) killed off any notion that supernatural forces play an active role in human existence.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xv0mKsO2goA <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xv0mKsO2goA>  

Sean Carroll explains Core Theory in this 2013 video (5:00 to 9:10), and he states (7:00 to 7:25) "There is no other field 'out there' that plays a role in human consciousness'.  It's clear from the rest of his talk, and since all the LHC discoveries (including the Higgs field in 2012) that if there was some other supernatural force, "then we would have found it!.  Lennox is mischievously wrong.  We do have a clear understanding of all particles, waves and forces that could possibly influence life on Earth. 

So, there is no 'substance dualism', no external consciousness or soul, no astrology, no bending spoons with the mind, no ghosts or any other mysterious forces.  There is no evidence whatsoever, which means that continued belief in any supernatural phenomena is based wholly on "acts of faith" -- the types of religious delusions that are also fully understood and explained by neuroscience.

Cheers . . . Brian
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