Publisher's Synopsis
Using SCIENCE and THE SCIENTIFIC METHOD to eliminate the Usual Suspects, in an attempt to demonstrate and prove THE TRUTH!This book was my first venture into the Philosophy of Science. This book has gone through a number of different versions as I have fleshed it out. The original core is still there, but I have enhanced it quite a bit with Preface Material as the years have gone by.In this book, I line up the Usual Suspects, gather and define the Evidence; and then, I apply THE SCIENTIFIC METHOD, common sense logic, abductive reasoning, and deductive reasoning to them, in order to see if any one of them could have done the job of designing and creating this Physical Universe, this Earth, and ALL of the Genomes and Life Forms on this Earth.The goal is to find the Correct Suspect among all of the Usual Suspects, who are typically presented to us for our consideration.This was a fun book to write, because it made logical sense to me from beginning to end.Some people had serious problems with the title of this book because they have chosen to believe that the Scientific Method cannot be used to prove the truth. This belief technically isn't true. You see, the Scientific Method can be used and is used to falsify theories - to prove theories false; and, if you successfully eliminate everything that is false, then ONLY the truth will remain. The false is falsified by the truth; and, the truth is repeatedly experienced and observed. That's the way science works! Or at least, that's the way science is supposed to work. If your science isn't leading you to the truth, then your science is worthless and you ain't doing it right.If you are not using the Scientific Method (or observation and experience) to falsify and eliminate falsehoods such as Materialism, Naturalism, Nihilism, Darwinism, Behaviorism, Determinism, Physical Reductionism, and Atheism, then you ain't doing science right and you aren't using the Scientific Method as it was intended to be used. The purpose of the Scientific Method is to identify and eliminate everything that is false so that only the truth will remain. That's the Philosophy of Science that we should be living by and enacting - not the one that involves the dogmatic suppression and destruction of evidence.Within the original title for this book, I was treating the Scientific Method as a detective. The original title of this book was, "Using the Scientific Method to Eliminate the Usual Suspects and to Prove the Truth". People didn't get it. They resisted. They have been taught in school that the Scientific Method can't be used to prove the truth. Technically, that is true; but, it is also false. You see, the Scientific Method can be used to find the truth (prove the truth) through a process of elimination, by eliminating everything that has been falsified by the Scientific Method starting with Materialism, Naturalism, Darwinism, Nihilism, and Atheism. We learned this methodology from Sherlock Holmes.How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible [and the false], whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth? - Sherlock Holmes.This is Logic 101. If you successfully eliminate everything that is false, then ONLY the truth will remain. We use the Scientific Method to help us eliminate everything that is false so that ONLY the truth will remain. You see, the false is falsified by the truth; and, the truth is constantly and repeatedly experienced, verified, witnessed, seen, and observed. When we use the Scientific Method to eliminate everything that is false, then we end up with the stuff that is constantly being verified, experienced, and observed. We end up with the truth. That's how we use the Scientific Method to find the truth and to eventually prove the truth. The truth is constantly being verified, because it's constantly being seen, experienced, lived, and observed.
