I have received permission to post it on EVOLUTION.
OCRing not being infallible, if errors exist, it is probably
due to the OCR run.
Burgy
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"A New Foundation for Modern Science"
by Charles W. and Joseph C, Lucas
An ICC review by Tom Willis
The third paragraph of this paper begins, "The issue of
truth has been largely neglected in modern
science. Most high school and college science
textbooks no longer even mention
the logical principles that undergird science and
guide it in the direction of truth. Modern science
has evolved to the point that peer approval is more
important than being based on the physical laws of
cause and effect." The paper then develops the idea
that there is a reasonable set of principles that
should govern science, but do not. The authors
assert that these rules have been continuously
held for thousands of years
(abbreviated below to conserve space):
No theories may be based on postulates
or assumptions known to be false
To be considered valid, a theory must explain
all the relevant experimental data
All scientific theories must be self-consistent with one another
All different types of valid measurement of the
same quantity must be self-consistent with one another
The discovery of gravity and electrodynamics add:
All parts of the universe interact with one another in a self-consistent
way.
Most of these rules seem obvious to sensible people, but the
authors then show that the modern theory of the atom,
the Dirac model, based on special relativity theory
and a statistical version of quantum theory, gives a
nonphysical mathematical view of the universe
governed 100% by random statistical processes.
They then demonstrate that
the accepted model of the atom violates virtually all
the rules of science outlined above. It does not explain
all the data, it is not internally self-consistent, it is based
on a number of assumptions known to be false.
They list five major inconsistent or false assumptions
in the present model of the atom.
They also argue that the present model of the
atom should be suspect at least to Christians
because it is a random model, it is based on an
assumption of an inherently unreal mathematical
point, it is logically incoherent, and it was conceived
as part of philosophy intended to eliminate religion
from the globe. In short, they argue that there is
little connection between the present model of the
atom and a search for truth, and there probably
is a willful anti-Christian motive behind it. [Another
paper by Phillip Dennis, disputed the Lucas paper,
particularly on this one point, arguing that it was
all right for Christians to believe in quantum mechanics,
because the major problem with the "random nature"
of quantum mechanics was banal interpretation of it.
Both I and Lucas felt Dennis's paper had merit, but
it did not begin to address, much less invalidate, the
other points made by Lucas].
Lucas then reported on the work of a handful of
physicists (including themselves and David Bergman,
who also delivered a paper), to develop a totally
new model of the atom. While as yet incomplete,
they claim their atom is composed of real particles,
is logically coherent, is dependent on no assumptions
known to be false, depends only on classical electrodynamic
theory, and they claim it explains all the experimental
data with no ad hoc theories.., including those
effects "explained" by relativity and statistical quantum mechanics.
The proposed new model of the atom consists of a
doughnut shaped electron with a spinning charge.
The electrons have a fixed positions about the atom.
A simple diagram of the atom reveals how and where
it will bond with other atoms to form molecules.
Does their model work? One chemist, who had
worked with it only a short time, came to the meeting
with a folder full of molecules he had built using it.
He told me, "I accomplished more in one week with
this model than I've done in 25 years with Quantum
Mechanics. Is the model correct? I don't know.
Contact email Common Sense Science, David Bergman,
at <DBergman@compuserve.com
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