Why Science Needs a Scout Mindset

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Scout or soldier? When it comes to our opinions and beliefs, there's a bit of both in all of us. But which mindset is more beneficial? On this ID The Future, host Andrew McDiarmid welcomes Dr. Jonathan McLatchie to discuss the characteristics of a scout mindset and how it relates to the debate over evolution and the evidence for intelligent design. Get full show notes at idthefuture.com.

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  • @davidervin7345
    @davidervin73452 ай бұрын

    As to a study of which political mindset attaches to which particular opinion on a given controversial subject....who gets to ascribe truth to the controversial, espoused facts and then determine which side is the pejorative "soldier" hardhead and which is the objective "scout" truth seeker? In most controversial subjects the dilemma is which facts are facts and which facts are propaganda and the selection criteria is often apriori worldview. Was Galileo a scout or a soldier or both (putting aside his personal abrasiveness)? Surely we are all both, depending on the existentiality of the threat to our worldview. There is a B/W video of an animated discussion between (I think) Buzz Aldrin and someone that believed the moon landings had been faked by Hollywood. At some point Mr Aldrin knocked the man to the floor with a punch. When you are right, you are right and should be a soldier, not a scout. In my early years I was an adherent to agnostic scientism and now I am a scientistic Christian.

  • @MS-od7je
    @MS-od7je2 ай бұрын

    The science of language includes sounds( phonations) phonemes, morphology(words)syntax, semantics, structures, literal and lastly pragmatic( contextual meaning). Language in its structure can have fractal meanings, with double, triple or more entendres ( meanings) given the same syntax, semantics structures, sounds, etc. Language is regarded as a representation of information. Words are not only sounds but transmit meaning. Transmission of meaning is a function of intent. Sounds and words can have meaninglessness by intent but when there is meaning there is necessarily intent. Sounds transmit action. Sounds are measured as frequencies and vibrations. Sounds and vibrations can act on reality. Chladni plates, cymascopes, oscilloscopes, etc are means of demonstrating the actionable properties of sound. Sounds can have particular shapes and patterns. These shapes and patterns are determined by the substances being acted upon as well as the substance acting. Water is a classic example of such actings visualized in cymascopes and oscilloscopes. Furthermore water not only can be acted upon by sound but water also then produces sound. Multiple sources of frequencies, vibration can simultaneously act on water. Oceans are acted on by wind, earth crust ( earthquakes and volcanoes, tectonic plates and subsurface dynamics) , gravity and electromagnetic fields, etc. Water crashing on a beach creates sounds as well as patterns in sand or rock. Sounds as spoken can have structural topology. This topology itself has transmitting effects( these effects can have effects into and beyond the structure directly acted on.. ocean waves caused by earthquakes can transmit patterns on land, sand and rocks not acted on directly by the earthquake, etc.). Now then consider the fractal nature of language and the fractal nature of sound. If sound is an operative of words and therefore language then such sounds can transmit intent by their meaning. Given the above consider: In the beginning was the word( a word as a form of expression of meaning and intention) and the word was with God, and the word was God( when you speak your words are you and the spirit of your intentions and so then the words, sounds of the words having meaning by God’s intention are transmitted information). The same ( word) was in the beginning with God. All things were made by him( the word of God as God); and without him was not anything made that was made( all things then are made by the word, sound, frequency, vibration, as language , as information transmission, as God/ I am that I am, as in to be to be, God as existence itself, being as the primary category of existence, that being spoke into existence all other being/ being the creator of all other being is not the same as being that other being ( not a oneness of all things .. not a Buddhist proposition). In him( the word as God, in the word was life/ life is spoken into existence) was life; and the life was the light of men( life as light, in the word was life which was light/ light is the fundamental being ( object as wave particle… as a something which exists… which has structure and is a transmitter of information/ light as a particle, as spherical, an object with a surface which surfaces can carry-transmit information). And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not( this is a necessary understanding, darkness is not light and darkness is not a transmitter of information by structure in the way that light is a transmitter of information… therefore darkness does not comprehend light information). …And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, ( and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth. Understanding this now consider: In the beginning ( or when, in the beginning) God created the Heaven ( singular) and earth( what are the ancient Hebrew words for black holes, galaxies, dust clouds… the universe?/ these words did not specifically exist but given the fractal nature of words and language it can be, and is understood to be, that “the Heaven and earth “ has fractal meaning in that it represents the concept of the universe as a whole and that at the beginning the conditions were set by which the earth was created). And the earth was without form, and void( again as fractal meaning the earth was set in its place even at the creation before there was a universe per se/ given the fractal nature of language ( as I will consider throughout) when earth is presented in this manner it can be understood as meaning both the earth itself and the universe because by necessity the earth is part of the universe/ was without form = without morphology, shape, etc. and void… was actually not of physical substance… again fractal read is that both the earth was of no physical substance nor was the universe, and the earth as well as the universe was without shape, morphology = form) : And darkness was upon the face of the deep ( recall that darkness is without understanding… without understanding if the light because light transmits information via structure, topology. What is the “face of the deep”? Does deepness have a face? What is a face? A face is a structure, a topology, a morphology. But herein that structure, morphology was dark, which is the absence of light. Yet there was a face of the deep… a structure of the universe, nay but a structure into which the universe could expand into with light which could and would travel and transmit information from God as the word which was before creation but was the creator as the word with the creator God( to be to be.. the essence of existence)). And the spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters( again fractal read, the face if the water has been interpreted as the surface of the ocean but the fractal reading is the water is a category as well as a type of substance. Here we have introduced the spirit of God. The spirit is like the wind moving to and fro whether you know not where it blows… so the spirit of God is the transmission of the word as in frequency, energy and vibration… acting on liquid/ plasma matter-energy. Fractal as acting upon h2O as well as molten metal, lava the earth as well as the universe… God in this chapter of Genesis has compacted information which was interpreted in literal terms as a particular meaning framed within a paradigm and that paradigm projected that interpretation through time without the understanding of a present paradigm but because of the fractal nature of language it represents truth through both interpretations within those disparate paradigms ( genius supreme). Recall the highest order of language is not literal but pragmatic. In this function of pragmatic interpretation a fractal nature as well as a categorical interpretation lends to understanding as to be scientifically precise. / acting on liquid the flow of information and energy moving on the face= morphology, shape… shaped the universe and necessarily the earth and liquid of earth… again recall that sound as waves can impart action through other on other things( earthquakes->water-> land) as such the liquid forms structures, patterns on which the next wave can function… words with sentences, paragraphs, storylines, books… information, progressions of information, iterations of information). So then before there was light the spirit of God acting on plasma/liquid energy flows( spirit winds) generated the structure into which light and subsequently life could flow and grow as iterations. And God said( the word as information, iterated onto/into the structure of the plasma/liquid energy created by the movement of the spirit of God), Let there be light: and there was light. And God saw the light( observer perspective/action/quantum effects), that it was good( what is good, goodness, evil, evilness? Here the fractal meaning is philosophical as in John 1: 9-11, That was the true Light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world. He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not. He came into his own, and his own received him not. ( darkness cannot comprehend light)): And God divided the light from the darkness ( not separated but divided them. Could this possibly mean? We understand the universe to be expanding and expanding at a particular rate, the cosmological constant. The rate at which the universe is expanding is faster than the speed of light. What is faster than the speed of light? The speed of dark is faster than the speed of light. So then consider that by God dividing the light from the dark we consider 1/137 as that division of light from dark.) . And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day. ( Here we are amazed at the reality of fractal and pragmatic functions of language. Neither the Sun nor the Moon have yet been created, so then what is this supposed to mean Day and night and evening and morning? If no where else but here it is understood that there is pragmatic and fractal meaning herein. Thus we move into a compaction of information understood in terms of categories. ) The next two “day”’s are the creation of Heaven and earth again (?) I will not give the fractal interpretation here but understand that it is so precise in its science that I do not feel compelled to give such information. Be that as it may the categories remaining are sufficient in fractal interpretation as to be remarkable and like the 5th chapter of genesis have meaning beyond literal interpretation. The end of the first chapter of genesis is key to understanding that the text is fractal. The image in which you are made is the lock that opens the fractal nature of the text.

  • @janetbaker1945
    @janetbaker19452 ай бұрын

    And yet this seems much like a liberal philosophy--I suppose indicating there's a good liberalism. But when I envision a debate between a soldier and a scout--I know (if I were the scout) I'd be very, very careful not to deny the possibility of a Creator! I can see, however, the powerful use of the mindset in becoming always better educated--probably because some percentage of what the other side of the origin debate might well be correct, and it would be both strategic and simply right to concede it.

  • @Bambotb
    @Bambotb2 ай бұрын

    God bless ❤ ps : jesus is a prophet of God not God, trinity is blasphemy

  • @garypotter5569

    @garypotter5569

    2 ай бұрын

    Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, before Abraham was born, I AM.” -- John 8:58 Jesus claimed to be God.

  • @JonathanMcLatchie

    @JonathanMcLatchie

    2 ай бұрын

    I'm not sure how this comment is relevant to the content of this podcast?

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