Thoughts from Mark "Hat" Rackley

In my former book, Theophilus, I wrote about all that Jesus began to do and to teach until the day he was taken up to heaven, after giving instructions through the Holy Spirit to the apostles he had chosen. After his suffering, he presented himself to them and gave many convincing proofs that he was alive. He appeared to them over a period of forty days and spoke about the kingdom of God. On one occasion, while he was eating with them, he gave them this command: “Do not leave Jerusalem, but wait for the gift my Father promised, which you have heard me speak about. For John baptized with water, but in a few days you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit.”

• Acts 1:1-5

The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of people, who suppress the truth by their wickedness, since what may be known about God is plain to them, because God has made it plain to them. For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that people are without excuse.

• Romans 1:18-20

Woe to those who draw sin along with cords of deceit,
    and wickedness as with cart ropes,
to those who say, “Let God hurry;
    let him hasten his work
    so we may see it.
The plan of the Holy One of Israel—
    let it approach, let it come into view,
    so we may know it.”
Woe to those who call evil good
    and good evil,
who put darkness for light
    and light for darkness,
who put bitter for sweet
    and sweet for bitter.
Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes
    and clever in their own sight.

• Isaiah 5:18-21

“The child of a poor English peasant family, Grosseteste’s formidable intelligence was spotted by the Mayor of Lincoln, who arranged for him to be educated. Evidence indicates that he studied at Oxford University and in Paris, before joining the clergy and going on to become Bishop of Lincoln. An outspoken critic of the Church in his time, Grosseteste is noted for his scientific thinking. He was one of the first medieval philosophers to grasp Aristotle’s dual path of scientific reasoning: generalizing from particular observations into a universal law, and then back again from universal laws to the prediction of particulars.”

• Sam Atkinson (senior editor), The Philosophy Book, Big Ideas Simply Explained

Robert Grosseteste, a.k.a. Robert Greathead and Robert of Lincoln (1175-1253), was indeed poor in upbringing, but rich in intellect.  He was an outspoken critic of many practices of the church of his time.  A “rumor” was spread that the death of Pope Innocent IV was caused by the ghost of Grosseteste appearing and kicking him in the head.  Of course, that did not happen, but when the “rumor” survived for over two centuries, his battles must have been many and well-known.

He made many contributions to theology and philosophy.  He worked with the Franciscan monks, starting as their theology professor.  Several noted scholars were his students, one being Roger Bacon who, along with Robert Grosseteste, were early proponents of the scientific method.

I am interested in their interest in the scientific method.  It is so lacking in the government funded brainwashing of evolution, millions of years, etc.

Robert Grosseteste proposed a general law of science, but then he used that law to see how it fit in what he could measure.  This dual inquiry was based on the thoughts of Aristotle.  You observe how one thing relates to another thing.  Then you make measurements.  Ah, this one thing travels twice as fast.  Maybe that has something to do with it?

It would still be a few hundred years before they had the instruments to measure things that could prove one theory or another, but there would not have been the motivation to invent better clockworks, thermometers, barometers, etc. if it were not for the scientific method requiring such measurements to prove their theories.

Even then Robert Grosseteste made advancements in the field of optics.

But on the evolution side, the Scopes trial revolved around Nebraska Man as the missing link.  All they had was a molar and the rest was fiction.  Years after the trial, they discovered that the molar belonged to an extinct breed of pigs. Piltdown man was discovered to be a hoax.  They buried a human skull with an orangutan jaw, roughing up the jaw with a file.  And at least one Neanderthal does not look like a missing link at all when observed by a doctor that specializes in diseases of the elderly.  They would say that the thickening of the bones here or there was due to rheumatoid arthritis or another similar disease.

With the scientific method applied, when your observed general theory is proven false when faced with countless measurements, then the theory has been disproven.  Yet, the secular world makes exceptions and excuses to hang onto a theory that does not require the work of God.

If what they teach in our schools as science cannot be proven, in fact, disproven, why do we still force these ideas into the minds of the students?  My only thought that makes sense is that the motivation is from an evil force in this world, trying to turn everyone from God.

It is past time that we should fight back.

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Soli Deo Gloria.  Only to God be the Glory.