In this interview Nancy Pearcey gives an example of how a children’s story that she wrote was changed by a television network to fit their “politically correct” worldview and concludes that children are bombarded by such distinct worldviews without their knowledge:
The example illustrates that even young children are bombarded with distinct worldviews. Ideas do not typically come neatly packaged with a warning label attached, so we know what we’re getting. Instead there is what we might call a “stealth” secularism that permeates society through images and stories that bypass our critical grid, override our logic, and hook us emotionally. We can be seduced into a set of ideas, a movement, or a worldview, sometimes without our even knowing it.
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The same stealth programming of children happens in schools as well. Children entrusted to schools by their parents are indoctrinated from the earliest age with the Newtonian worldview. Parents are not aware that their children are being taught a distinct and particular way of perceiving nature; the state forbids teaching of “creationism” but the state itself teaches “Newtonism” as the only true knowledge.
The hidden assumption of Newtonism is the doctrine of atomic materialism. In no physics textbooks you will find what I call “Newton’s Zeroth Law”:
God in the beginning formed matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable movable particles.
In this case Newton is wrong because God did not “form matter” the way Newton describes it. I don’t know where Newton got this idea that God created a discontinuous nature but the way I read it, in Genesis 1 God appears to define the world by naming what he wants to create. Indeed, we are living in a definitional world, not in a Newtonian matterful world. If we can free ourselves from the materialist doctrines of physics we will be more in harmony with nature and better appreciate the way the Bible says God created the world.
For instance, all surfaces are definitional; a surface exists only when you define it and name it. A surface is defined by its density and density is frequency squared, therefore, there cannot be absolute surfaces as Newton claims.
The most dense a surface can be is
there cannot be a surface with infinite density because
cannot exist, because according to the speed limit imposed by physicists there cannot be infinite frequency.
So there are no absolutely hard, absolutely solid and absolutely impenetrable surfaces as Newton claims.
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It is a well-established tradition in physics to overrule experimental results to save Newton’s authority. In this case, physicists claim to discover absolutely hard elementary particles in collider experiments by using Einstein’s equations that do not allow absolutely hard surfaces because no frequency can be more than 1/c. Only charlatans can declare the impossibility of absolutely hard surfaces and then discover them in experiments.
Like all other absurdities littering physics this one too exists because physicists must uphold Newton’s sacred authority at all cost by “normalizing” and “re-normalizing” experiments and equations until Newton’s sacred authority is saved.
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The version of “Newtonism” taught in schools does not necessarily reflect the worldview of the historical person who lived in the 18th century, just like Peripatetic philosophy taught in Cambridge when Newton was a student there did not reflect the personal views of Aristotle. Newton replaced Aristotle by himself as the new master of European scholasticism and ever since then the same Scholastic Doctors of Philosophy now doing business as “physicists” have been writing commentary on Newton instead of Aristotle. In the case of Newtonism, the body of canonized sacred commentary is called “Newtonian mechanics”.
Newton caused three radical changes in European education:
- Doctors of Theology lost the control of education to their professional cousin Doctors of Philosophy;
- Newton became the new Aristotle; and
- Mathematics replaced Latin as the secret esoteric language taught in schools by scholastic doctors.
In other words, the mixture of scholastic Peripatetic philosophy and Christian learning taught in Latin by Doctors of Theology as true knowledge was changed to a mixture of scholastic Newtonian philosophy and mathematics taught in the language of mathematics by Doctors of Philosophy as true knowledge.
As the result of Newton’s coup shaking up the European scholasticism, Doctors of Philosophy updated the public name of their profession first to “Natural Philosophy” and then to “physics” because Newton effectively defined “scholasticism” as anti-science. What is called academic physics today is the old scholastic profession still practiced by the same Doctors of Philosophy doing business as physicists.
There are only two monetization options for scholastic doctors, teaching the canon to new comers and peddling supposedly secret knowledge revealed to them by their esoteric language. It is obvious that the profession remained the same, it is still the scholastic business in charge of education, but the control of education and the ownership of canon moved from Doctors of Theology to Doctors of Philosophy who named their new regime with ideological names such as “Enlightenment” and “Scientific Revolution.”
It is also obvious that Scientific Revolution was not a revolution that eliminated scholastic dogmatism from European science, but just a coup that eliminated Aristotle and replaced him with Newton. The scholastic profession merely changed its name to assert the authority of its new academic overlord.
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There is what we might call a “stealth” secularism that permeates society through images and stories that bypass our critical grid, override our logic, and hook us emotionally. We can be seduced into a set of ideas, a movement, or a worldview, sometimes without our even knowing it.
Thank you for highlighting this process that also applies to education. Our perception of nature is instilled into us at the earliest age by this “stealth” secular state religion called Newtonism.
“Newton’s Apple” so innocently taught to us when we learn our alphabet is as powerful an image as any corporate logo or the flag we pledge allegiance to. Every children learns to pledge allegiance to the state as the protector and to Newton as the revealer of true knowledge.
Newtonism “overrides our logic” by presenting its occult miracles as scientific “experiments” such as the Cavendish experiment conducted in classrooms supposedly proving the existence of Newton’s occult force.
A well-polished Newtonian mythology describing Newton as the “mortal closest to gods” makes it impossible for us to even consider questioning the divine discoveries of this mortal branded as a demi-god whose name is synonymous with genius. Looking at the logs of my blog, every day there is someone searching for “Newton genius” and ends up reading my essay on the subject.
Education seduces us into believing that Newtonian atomic materialist and occult view of nature is the only true representation of nature. We do not even realize that we have been indoctrinated to perceive nature as Newtonian, material and occult. The secret mantra “Nature is Newton is Physics is Science” is instilled in us without our knowledge in every stage of our education. Physicists also corrupted our language making the word “physical” synonymous with “nature” so even if we tried we cannot conceive a world which is not material. The assumption of the materiality of nature is the source of matter/spirit duality. When we realize that nature is matterless and there are no absolute discontinuities in nature this old dilemma disappears.
We learn to perceive nature as a physical place where “Newton’s Soul” in the form of the occult force permeates the universe and acts between intelligent matter to set it in motion and to make nature the way it is.
Everyone believes that a stone falls because a force emanating from the center of the earth pulls it and that this force was discovered by Newton.
No scientific experiment ever proved the existence of such a force. That’s why physicists in the 19th century posthumously defined Cavendish experiment of 1798 as the first experimental verification of Newton’s occult force. When you look at Cavendish’s original paper it becomes clear that he did not measure force but computed the mean density of the earth from constants of the pendulum by using Kepler’s Rule.
Then, the question becomes, if there is no such occult force in nature how come Newton was able to compute planetary orbits correctly by using such an occult force?
It is very easy to prove that Newton did not use force to compute planetary orbits. There are only a few propositions in the Principia where Newton computes astronomical quantities and all of them are simple applications of Kepler’s Rule.
After Newton’s death his disciples developed a consistent system of units and procedures to facilitate computations that traditionally fell within physics and astronomy. They successfully hid Kepler’s Rule under calculus notation and branded units so successfully that it takes a while to see that the engine under the hood doing the work for the branded units and ideological labels displayed in mathematical looking symbolism that makes up Newtonian mechanics is Kepler’s Rule.
Once Newtonian ideology and branding is eliminated we recover Kepler’s Rule. This rule explains orbits with only two quantities, period and radius, and does not require mass or force or branded units of Newtonism.
I call this pristine version of physics without Newtonian branding “densytics” because density is definitional and it is the fundamental unit of nature. Absolutely indivisible matter and occult force are Newton’s inventions and do not exist in nature because they do not enter operational equations used in computations. Curiously enough, it was Newton who discovered that Kepler’s Rule was the definition of density and encoded this discovery in definition 1 of the Principia.
