Xing Planet Pluto Shows That Atheism Guides the US Field of Astronomy
Apparently, our astronomers don’t believe that God exists, that God has an Intelligent Design of the universe, that God created Pluto, and that God’s Intelligent Design guided Pluto into our planetary system where it could function for us. I make this conclusion because the astronomers also do not seem to be interested in Kepler’s planetary law that explain the positions of the first six planets with Plato’s five nested solids. Nor do our astronomers speculate on theories of God’s Intelligent Design. If Pluto is a planet of ice, might it not have as real purpose for our planetary system. In a nation under God, wouldn’t God expect its citizens to seek real truths about His design? Xing Pluto is unscientific and ungodly. How much money will Xing cost? Aren’t our poor people in need of money for food and heat?
posted by George Shollenberger @ 8:41 PM
10 Comments:
At 4:20 PM,
Anonymous said…
If you call it Chopped Liver does it change its function?
At 9:31 PM,
George Shollenberger said…
To anonymous.
No, but it changes the mind of our children. Naming something, distinguishing it, and relating it to other things is the basis of building knowledge with symbols. Giving precise meanings to the symbols in our symbolic languages is the key to building human knowledge.
At 1:03 AM,
Anonymous said…
How exactly does calling pluto a planet vs. a dwarf planet change its purpose for our planetary system, if any?
Only in some mystical hoodoo system could this be of any significance.
Moreover, what makes you so sure that the old identification was right and the new one is wrong? Until 1930 no one even was aware that Pluto existed. So advances in astronomy allowed scientists to find Pluto then and new advances have allowed scientists to more precisely designate it as a non-planet. Your thinking on this seems emotional rather than rational.
At 8:15 AM,
George Shollenberger said…
To anonymous.
Establishing categories for thinngs is the way Aristotle thought with his logic. But, his logic slowed the development ofd the Western world for 1700 hundred years. Then, Plato's way of thinking was given life and mathematical science gave us progress and caused our minds to develop properly.
If God is true, Pluto has a function and we should seek and identify all functions in the universe. Creating categories have a tendency to create atheists.
At 5:37 PM,
Rev. BigDumbChimp said…
So George what about Ceres?
At 10:28 PM,
George Shollenberger said…
To bigdumbchimp.
I hope that the future changes so that 50% of the people in every nation are mathematicians and scientists. Then, research efforts would be at the level I would favor.
With respect to the astroid Ceres (440 mile diameter and 4.6 year revolution around the sun),I know of no theory about it, neither it necessary function or its contingent function. If we can get to the 50% level, such theories should emerge. I conclude that the economists and rich class stall this kind of progress.
At 10:57 PM,
Rev. BigDumbChimp said…
At what point was the final decision on planets arrived? Who is the ultimate arbiter?
At 1:22 PM,
George Shollenberger said…
I don't know to both questions. I just caught this news on a CNN report.
At 4:51 PM,
Rev. BigDumbChimp said…
George you aren't understanding me. At what point in history did the planetary decision happen that unquestionably makes Pluto a planet sent by god when it's really just the was Satelites of the sun are clasified. Who is to say that God really wanted Pluto to be clasified as a planet. Maybe this whoel time he knew it was just a big icy ball on the outskirts of the solar system and he was pissed off that we have been calling it a planet when clearly it is not. By re-clasifying pluto as a dwarf planet what does that change about it's function? And how is "xing" Pluto ungodly?
You are full of claims but extremely thin on anything backing these claims.
At 11:24 PM,
George Shollenberger said…
To bigdumbchimp.
OK. I understand. My concern about astronomy is the way we do astronomy because to trace the history of a planet to its origin in God is a very complex subject. The method of astronomy depends on whether the astronomer thinks that the planet came from God or whether it is not from God. Then, if the astronomer thinks that it did not come from God, then many other methods could be chosen depending on the theory chosen.
You see, the Big Bang theory and the theory of God are like theories. The Big Bang theory begins with a finite source of energy. But, the theory of God provides an endless source of energy. The Big bang is a one-shot world whereas God's world workes forever.
In a forever world, a planet is part of the infrastructure of life. In this infrastructure, the planet can have multiple functions. It could function as a source of special minerals that will need as the sun darkens. But if astronomers do not think of God and an endless world, of what use are astronomers.
God's Intelligent Design establishes the future 'history' of any possible planet or heavenly body. All created things become possible 'all at once" because time is not found in God. All things emerge, ontologically, when God's Intelligent Design is contracted (or unfolded)from God's infinite world to our finite world. For innstance, "motion" is unfolded from its opposition, rest. Thus, motion is a series of rests.
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