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Posted on May 3, 2013

I stumbled upon a book which I really laugh a heart loud but seriously it is not a comedy book it is about Scientific Blunder which made me appreciate and realized more deeply how scientific and truthful the words of the Lord Jesus Christ in the Bible.

I for one a lover of science and wisdom which is the literally meaning of philosophy but according to Stephen Hawking “philosophy is dead” from his book Grand Design.

For me if you are really a lover of scientific truth you will not kill the very medium that leads you to science discovery. Philosophy means searching for the meaning. It gave birth to different branches of science including the mastery of Stephen Hawking as physicist.

Let’s go back with the foundation of science were atheist and scientist put their trust, lives, dreams and ambitions. Let us analyze the authenticity and validity of the words of famous scientist in comparison with the words of the Lord Jesus Christ and the Bible.

I want to welcome you first to the unscientific world of scientific blunders.

The history of science is littered with remarkable errors, many of which are, of course, no more than aspects of the scientific ignorance of the time. Even so, they are among the most momentous errors in the history of humankind and many of them have had serious consequences. This makes them particularly interesting and instructive. Some blunders are the result of carelessness; some arise from plain, stubborn wrong-headedness; some from arrogance ; some arise from willful and culpable ignorance; some from spectacular bad luck; and some from human moral frailty. Nevertheless, however incredible the bald facts of each case may seem, there are nearly always extenuating factors, and, in spite of our natural tendency to look for the worst in other people, it is good for us to remember this and look tolerantly for these mitigating circumstances.

Other people’s errors and blunders are strangely fascinating and there is no reason why we should not enjoy a little harmless gratification at other people’s expense, but there are better motives for reading about blunders than the expectation of feeling superior. Bu investigating the circumstances in which blunders occurs, we can learn a great deal, not only about human nature but also about the subject that is the occasion for the blunder.

Paradoxically, for the general non-scientific reader, this is probably the best way of learning about science- as a review of most of the stories in this book will quickly show. Getting it wrong is very often the way that science advances. Provisional, but wrong, ideas give way to better-but still wrong- ideas. Every stage in this process may involve a blunder.

Manny scientific blunders happen because the person concerned is more preoccupied with the possible rewards of a discovery-fame, status, professional advancement, perhaps even wealth- than with the disinterested pursuit of truth. When this happens, there is danger of bias in favor of the hoped-for outcome. Learning in the desired direction can cause one of the most serious kinds of scientific blunder- to be tempted into dishonesty. It is very hard for the scientist to maintain his or her moral integrity at the expense of months or year of promising work. As Thomas Henry Huxley put it, “ The great tragedy of science is the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact”’

The scientist who finds himself, or herself, ignoring- or explaining away- uncomfortable results that don’t fit in with the preconceived hypothesis is on a slippery slope and is liable to end up in disgrace and ruin.

Most scientific workers are aware of their fallibility and take precautions to avoid the blunder of bias in the interpretation of results.

Scientist are just people and are not exempt from the human weaknesses that best us all. Palin unvarnished deliberate fraud cannot, of course, be classed as a blunder, but there must be very few scientists who set out with the deliberate intention of perpetrating a scientific deception. They are all much too intelligent to think that they could ever get away with it

(This article will be another archive of mine about the hypocrisy of atheism and some scientists who cannot stand on their principle in the matters of Supreme Being and Supernatural, it is better for them to be ambiguous than to have a clear views about the things which they cannot see a Supreme Intelligent Being. But if you will change those what they call religious terminologies with the same principle (in the truest sense of science) to scientific ones there will be no argument needed.

For example the scripture said about resurrection change it to cryogenics, new earth to other earth, the phrase in the beginning to Big Bang, heavens to cosmos, they don’t want to call it faith but they do have belief or hope with their experiment without seeing first the real outcome of their scientific work, and no financial institution even the government that will put huge amount of money to any experiment that will just give them the outcome of uncertainty. Change the word creation to accident , by chance, natural selection or evolution that will make these words and phrases for them it will be sweet sounding.

Atheist living in the shadow of the theist Scientist quoting their words and explaining their remarkable contribution to scientific community just to prove that science had buried God, that faith is the process of non thinking according to Richard Dawkins about his delusion. Comparing Dawkins to Newton and Einstein which are not Atheist — these are greatest scientists in their own time. Newton and Einstein have faith in God, not even the friends of Dawkins the remaining 3 horsemen will believed that Einstein and Newton were engaging with the process of non-thinking because of their faith.

Even Dawkins had his faith in future space exploration of his video lectures he said that maybe one day we will go to other planet through spaceship. So what do you call this scientific statement? That can be observed? Can our physical features as human being can bear the light years travel. Imagine just going to Uranus you need to spent around 25 years and that is only within the solar system. How about going back another 25 years? So who is the one engaging with the process of non-thinking? Definitely it’s Dawkins.)

“Cursed is the one who trusts in man, who draws strength from mere flesh and whose heart turns away from the LORD”. Here are samples of the futility of the greatest scientific mind ever live on earth.

Scientific Blunders

“ There is not the slightest indication that energy will never be obtainable form the atom.”—Albert Einstein.

To us who think in terms of practical use, the splitting of the atom means nothing—Lord Richie Calder (1906-82) writing 1932

Anyone who expects a source of power from the transformation of the atom is talking moonshine—Ernest Rutherford ( 1871-1937), one of the great names in Atomic Physics

All this talk about space travel is utter bilge, really. Richard Wooley, British Astronomer Royal, 1956 ( five years before yuri Gagarin made the first space trip)

Is there anyone anywhere such an idiot as to believe that there are people who stand with their feet opposite to ours, their legs in the air and their heads hanging down? Can there possibly be any place on earth where everything is upside down, where trees grow downwards and rain and snow fall upwards? These mad ideas are the result of the crazy notion that the world is round. —Firmianus Lactantius ( 4thcentury A.D.—Tutor to Crispus, son of constantine the great

Ligth travels through water faster than through empty space- Isaac Newton ( 1642-1727), the greatest scientist and mathematician of the seventeenth century

Atomic Energy might be as good as our present day explosives, but it is unlikely to produce anything much more dangerous—Winston Churchhill ( 1874-1965) speaking in 1939

I had the idea of a new kind of pen that used a ball instead of a nib. But I decided it wouldn’t work, so O dropped the project.

Chester Carlson ( 1906-68), American Inventor of the Xerox copier that made him a millionaire

I remember at an early period of my own life showing to a man of high reputation as a teacher some matters which I happned to have observed. And I was very much struck and grieved to find that, while all the facts lay equally clear before him, only those which squared with his previous theories seemed to affect his organs of vision.

Joseph, Lord Lister ( 1827-1912) who antiseptic surgery

I do not think that the wireless waves I have discovered will have any practical application.

Heinrich Rudolf Hertz(1857-94), discover of radio wave propagation

War is a relic of barbarism probably destined to become as obsolete as dueling. _ Lord Kelvin ( 1824-1907)

X-rays will prove to be a hoax—Lord Kelvin ( 1834-1907), who had been appointed a professor of mathematics and physics at the age of 22, and who became the greatest scientist of his day

The American Biologist and Nobel Laureate Hermann Muller( 1890-1967), who used x-rays to induce genetic mutations.

First Media Blitzkrieg

The first scientist to attract the attention of the press worldwide was the German Physicist Wihelm Roentgen (1845-1923) when he discovered X-rays in 1895. Within a year, about 1,000 articles an 50 books and pamphlets appeared on the subject all over the world!

Failed Predictions

“ I have committed the ultimate sin. I have predicted the existence of a particle that can never be observed”, said the German Physicist and Nobel Laureate Wolfgang Pauli ( 1913-1993) when he first postulated “neutrino”- the chargeless, massless particle-1930, Ny 1959, the particle was detected.

These so-called cosmic rays certainly don’t come from the cosmos. – William Francis Swann, Director of the Franklin Institute of Physics

However fascinating it may be as a scholarly achievement, there is virtually nothing that has come from molecular biology that can be of any value of human living.- Frank MacFarlane Burnet9 1899-1985). Nobel Prizewinning immunologist whose work made organ transplantation possible

People have been writing about a rocket shot from one country to another, carrying an atomic bomb which would land exactly on a certain target, such as a city. I say that I don’t think anyone in the world knows how to do such a thing, and I feel confident that it will not be done for a very long time to come. I think we can leave that out of our thinking.

Dr Vannevar Bush ( 1890-1974), computer pioneer, addressing an American Congressional Committee in 1945, five years before Russia demonstrated its firs intercontinental ballistic missile

Cars will cost as little as $200. People will have two month vacations. They wil care little for possessions. The happiest people live in one-factory villages.—Predictions for 1960 by general Motors in a “FUTURAMA” exhibit at the 1939-40 new York world’s fair

Air is necessary for violent motion. Violent motion exists between the moon and the earth. Therefore the space between the moon and the earth is full of air.—Aristotle (384-322 BC)

The human embryo arises from the sperm alone- Aristotle ( 384-322 BC)

Modern Science kills God and takes his place on the vacant throne. Science is the sole legitimate arbiter of all relevant truth.

The name Big Bang for a theory of the origin of the universe was coined in a somewhat mocking manner by the british astrophysicist Fred Hoyle (1915-2001), when he was asked to give a series of popular science talks on radio in 1950. Hoyle coined this pun because he himself opposed to the theory that the universe originated in a big explosion. The pun somehow stuck on the theory!

After atom bombs were dropped over the Japanese cities, Albert Einstein ( for details, see Historic letter) regretted his decision to write a letter to the U.S. President. He said on more than one occasion, “Had I known that the Germans would not succeed in producing an atomic bomb, I would not have lifted a finger”.

De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelesium ( The Revolution of Heavenly Spheres.)—Nicolaus Copernicus ( Copernik)

Curiously this revolutionary book had a strange and anonymous preface, ( This book,” claimed the writer of the pReface, “ is written to present not a scientific fact but a playful fancy”.

Today, the reputation of Polish Astronomer (1473-1543) as propunder of the Heliocentric theory of the universe, which created a revolution in science, is based on a single book

Pincipia Mathematica- The world’s most prestigious science book principia authored by Isaac Newton

When the now highly acclaimed Principia was published. Isaac Newton heard the following remark from a student in the street: “there goes the man who wrote a book that neither he nor anybody else understands”!

The german Mathematician Georg Cantor ( 1845-1918), renowned for his concepts of infinity, underwent firs of depression when his mathematical ideas were attacked by his own teacher Leopold Kronecker. He was eventually admitted to a mental hospital where he died.

It is often claimed that scientists lack social responsibility. They do not bother about the effects of their discoveries and inventions on the society at large.

The optimist regards the future as uncertain—Eugene P. Wigner

Philosophy

Once a student asked the eminent Greek Mathematician Pythagorus, “ master, art thou a sophist?” (“ Master, are you wise”) Pythagorus replied,” I pray thee, call me not a wise but rather a lover of wisdom”). In other words, Philosophy means a lover of wisdom. That’s how this subject was named.

Darwin’s Bulldog

The British biologist and science populariser Thomas Henry Huxly (1825-1895) was called “ Darwin’s Bulldog” because he fought tooth and nail for Charles Darwin’s Theory of the eveolution of life at various public forums against Churchmen’s vicious attack. Darwin himself kept to his researches and never embroiled himself in any debate!

Eliminating Personal Errors

The American Astronomer an aeronautical pioneer Samuel Pierpont Langley (1834-1906) conceived of a machine which could eliminate”personal error”. He wrote the machine in th American Journal of Science in 1877.

Failed Industrialist

William Shockley, the American Pysicist and Nobel Laureate, who invented the transistor, failed to set up a semiconductor industry in the Silicon Valley, a region he helped build by encouraging his students to set up silicon industries there!

Ironies

Childless

The British Scientish Francis Dalon ( 1822-1911), who is roday remembered for laying the foundation of the subject “Eugenics”, which deals with how to improve offsprings, was childless!

Chemist Must Ruin Their Health?

When health of the German Chemist Ausugt Kekule (1829-1896), who gave the ring structure of benzene, deteriorated in the middle age, the German chemisht Justus von Liebig ( 1803-1873) wrote to him, “If you want to be a chemist, you will have to ruin your health:no one who does not ruin his health with study will ever do anything in chemistry nowadays? ( See Poisoning By Chemicals)

“Mankind will not remain tied to the earth forever” Russian Father of Rocketry- Konstantin E. Tsiolkovsky ( 1857-1935)

Penance

Ub 1691, the naturalist John Ray wrote the book The wisdom of God Manifested in the works of Creation as a penance to God for devoting his life to biology and natural history!