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"I just know it"

Writer's picture: Fr. SeraiahFr. Seraiah

I once spoke with someone who was absolutely, thoroughly, one hundred percent, convinced that dinosaurs died out 252 million years ago. I asked him for his reasons. He told me "science proved it". I asked him where science proved it. He said "you can read it anywhere, only idiots would deny this established fact". So I asked him if he could show me one place, just one, where it shows the "proof" of this "fact" (and not just the statement of the opinion). You should be able to see where this is going. He was unable to give me one place, because there is no place where "science" has "proven" this "fact". It is still the running theory among those who deny the existence of God, and is given in to by many who feel bullied to accept this presumption. Yet, there is not, and there cannot be, any kind of a "proof" of this until someone builds a time machine and goes back there.


Now let me be clear: it is possible to extrapolate an idea from concrete evidence in the world today. Yes, but that is just a "best guess" and not a proven fact. What we all must realize is that science can rarely prove anything at all, it can only observe current events and then give a hypothesis about what might be the proper conclusion from those observations (as a side note, many evolutionists today are admitting that evolution was never proven, and has now been proven wrong).


I am not as concerned with whether a person believes the earth is a billion years old, or that it is only thousands of years old (as the traditional Catholic position states). I am concerned with what the pompous presumptions of science has done to peoples' thinking. With us being so used to science declaring its theories as though they are facts, we have started to believe that we can know things that we cannot actually know (like things that happened without anyone making a record of the event). Have we made people think that they are essentially omniscient (i.e. all-knowing)? Have we given people the impression that scientists are divine?


The result of people presuming "unproven" things to be real, is that they become willing to accept other unproven things to be real. Someone said to me eight years ago that he knew for certain that if Donald Trump was elected he would make a hostile take-over of America, and become its new permanant dictator. I asked, "how do you know this" and he told me, "I just know it". Unproven, but definite, because he "just knew it". This is just one area where people think like this. Science, was originally the pursuit of knowledge, but has now become the pursuit of controlling people's minds through the promotion of error. Let us pray that God will deliver us from ourselves and allow science to return to being, once again, the pursuit of the knowledge of this beautiful world that God created.

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