Can Atheists Justify Their Use Of Science?

What's up guys? I'm here with super smart Kyle who has much better goggles than I have. What's with that man?

Just to make sure that I'm protected. I have to work with students using acids, and it's it's entertaining. Yeah.

Super smart Kyle. All right, so what are we doing today. Super smart Kyle?

Science, Uniformity, and the Christian Basis for the Scientific Method

So we're showing a couple differences between what science would be like if we didn't know what to expect from Experiments and what we when we do know what to expect. The idea being you can have really nasty surprises if you aren't prepared properly if you weren't able to rely on the future being like the past and knowing what to expect from chemical reactions and Here what we expect when we know the conditions of something so that we can control them, right?

So you're a total nerd a little bit right a geek. I have a job and friends good, okay?

So so the idea is is that with the Christian worldview at the biblical worldview? We can actually have a basis for science right. Nature is uniform. It's law like we have past experiences and based upon those past experiences We can project into the future.

What will be the case right? That's the idea and so right now We have some bottles of soda, and we have some baking soda. And we have a spoon and some strips, and what are these. What are these for these.

It look like they have carpet on them?

Is that carpet. No it's not carpet. It's probably a loose pack polymer that contains a couple reagents pH indicators and chlorinate and chlorine indicators. Some other.

Reactants. Right carpet, okay, so this pH. These are pH strips, okay?

So what are we going to do so we're looking at is an example of what happens when you have? Kind of a surprise reaction, and then what happens when you have sort of a controlled reaction, okay here. We've already pre-boiled this so that this soda doesn't have any more.

Any more carbonation in it because that's the first step to actually neutralizing it. So.

What happened. Heat up. Soda takes the bubbles out it does no more bubbles. That's right. They're all gone.

This is caffeine on it. It does. Is that that's the most important active ingredient of every day, okay? Oh very good.

Super smart Kyle, okay, super smart Kyle. What's next so now?

Controlled Reactions and Predictable Chemical Behavior

We're going to demonstrate what science would be like when we were trying to do reactions if we didn't know what to expect all the Time. So I'm gonna need you to carefully add a few of these okay one of your bottles, okay, and then We'll add don't do these to the others.

Don't be don't be nice Kyle. That's right. We have a few more here there you go.

All right, so we got the we got the diet soda, and we got the Mentos. Which is called the what?

This is what's going to be our surface area for no removing the fresh maker. No, okay? I'll take your word for it. This is this is what's going to give us the surface area to release the carbonation in a slightly rapid fashion.

Okay, it's gonna basically blow up. That's yes. All right ready so Mentos.

See if science was unpredictable all of our experiments would look like this. And well. We'd sort of have a mess right on our hands.

So I the idea is is that if nature wasn't uniform if the universe was unpredictable and chaos you'd never know.

What experiments gonna do. What. No you have to be able to understand? What's going to be produced from your experiment so that you know how to control the reactions, okay, so let's try one and Seal this one's going to make a mess.

Should I expect anything? It might overcome the bottle, but I don't know that I've seen a single one over.

The bottle. Well, how do you do it. Is it the bottom up right and you drop it right and launch it, okay?

Induction, Chemical Laws, and the Atheistic Problem for Science

All right now when we go to do this in a more controlled fashion so that we know what to expect. We start by characterizing our system in this case. We boil off a lot of our material so that we have no more carbonate salts.

We check and see all right. We're still very low on the pH scale below the what this will actually read. The idea is because this is a tri protic acid. We want to be adding in something to neutralize it and evolve some co2 gas.

Because a lot of that carbonate salt is already gone. There's some gas evolution.

You say evolution yes, but not.

Not in the in the speciation sense this is in the sense of Producing a new chemical species from another existing chemical species, okay here. We should be past the Point where we're under acidic conditions.

You should have enough base present to neutralize it.

Enough base present as opposed to trouble.

Would be if you were listening to some sort of a hipster song, but in this case We're looking for acids and Lewis acids and bases so there. We see a significant color change. You married cow I am. People wonder how but even scientists can get girls sometimes so here We are we're a little bit above neutral pH.

Okay. Look at there. All right, this is what happens when we understand the conditions going into a system, okay?

So the idea is when you walk into your laboratory as a scientist because you're super smart. Kyle. Mm-hmm, and you do these things. You actually didn't have to go out to purchase one of these. No I own this yes.

There are a couple stains here and there that are authentic, okay? Don't worry about it. It's fine, so.

When you walk into your laboratory and and you start to do experiments. Do you walk into the laboratory going hey? We don't know like we don't know what's going to happen.

That's how accidents happen, and that's how we learn how emergency showers work, so that's a bad idea, right?

The Principle of Induction and the Limits of Atheistic Worldview

So it's a describe that as a scientist as a Christian. How does the biblical worldview provide a basis for everything that you do and everything that you teach?

Because we understand the ideas of things like the principle of induction we can assume That the future will be as the past and that chemical reactions will be governed by specific behaviors by specific laws.

We are able to Move forward and understand new things building on each of the principles that we've learned and that's very much the way that we actually Teach a lot of these labs if they're set up properly so that students can build on the fundamental concepts in order to build a more rounded understanding of different separations methods different things that are combined and What one of the things that I tell them frequently is beginning to sort of look into?

Some of those invisible attributes that hold together the world. So when you think about say an atheistic framework. Atheist professors and scientists. Colleagues right when they walk into a laboratory.

They have a particular framework of the world. They believe the world is random. They do time and chance acting on matter nothing immaterial. They don't believe in God who personally governs everything.

When you think about that worldview. How should that impact how they walk into the laboratory if they really believe that and lived and lived like it?

I think in a lot of regards They're somewhat foolish for obeying the laws to begin with because they're they don't believe in an ultimate accountability, so they don't believe in Anything that should resemble consistency in the lab and I really don't understand how they how they cross that bridge of Not being able to justify the principle of induction and using it every day so the end of the day these guys like to go home and I don't know drink whiskey and smoke cigars or something and pretend to not think about the fact that they cannot justify the very Science that they're using to be their authority on truth.

Right on. Very good. What's your favorite movie Kyle?

Baseballs.

Makes sense next week with Jeff Durbin the late-night show with the unpopular opinion. Tuesday only on Facebook live.