Essay:Six points from Sarfati

Jonathan Sarfati, the duckspeaking shill prominent scientist from Creation Ministries International, some years ago condescended, in an article entitled Presuppositions Required For Science, Christian v. Atheist Atrocities, Defending the Faith, to share with the rest of us his thoughts on what constitutes the basis of all scientific disciplines. He states that "these propositions are deducible from the axioms of Bible [sic], while atheists must merely accept them as given because they can't deduce them from their axiom `God does not exist.'"

He gets off to a great start by shooting himself in the foot with a Godwin's, reminding us in a nice little blue box with enormous quote-marks on it that "the atrocities of 20th century Nazis and Communists were totally consistent with evolutionary teaching."

Said atrocities are of course no more deducible from the "axiom" of evolution than any principle of science is deducible from the metaphysical premise of atheism. But in Sarfati's book, it is not good for atheists to accept scientific principles as given, because that does not serve his point, while it is perfectly all right for Nazis and Reds to take their genocidal philosophies as given, because that allows him to trot out the Hitwin.

Later in the article, he posits six particular philosophical propositions on which science is supposedly based, deducible from the Bible, not from the metaphysical premise of atheism. I present here a side-by-side commentary on these points.