{"id":2196,"date":"2010-07-03T12:00:57","date_gmt":"2010-07-03T16:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/?p=2196"},"modified":"2014-02-06T11:05:08","modified_gmt":"2014-02-06T16:05:08","slug":"the-mystery-of-electricity-dale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/the-mystery-of-electricity-dale\/","title":{"rendered":"The Mystery of Electricity"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"A trinitarian facepalm for\u00a0this<\/a>, from \u00a0a Bob Jones University<\/a> Press grade school textbook<\/a> (HT: Digg<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

Not having seen the book, I can’t be sure what is going on here<\/strong>. Here are some options:<\/p>\n

    \n
  1. The writer is terribly uninformed<\/strong>.<\/li>\n
  2. The writer is feigning ignorance in a misguided<\/strong> attempt to instill delight and wonder into science.<\/li>\n
  3. The writers is feigning ignorance in an attempt to multiply “mysteries”. If there are a lot of “mysteries” (realities we don’t understand) in nature, then any theological mysteries will be unproblematic. Call this “innocence by association<\/strong>” apologetics.<\/li>\n
  4. The writer is ham-handedly trying to make a (controversial) Kantian point about science – that it only reveals how things appear and not how they really are.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    I’d like to believe that 1 is unlikely. It could be that all of 2-4 are going on here. Either way, this is clearly educational malpractice<\/strong>, especially the “All anyone knows is that…” part.<\/p>\n

    Anyone out there have the actual book?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    A trinitarian facepalm for\u00a0this, from \u00a0a Bob Jones University Press grade school textbook (HT: Digg.) Not having seen the book, I can’t be sure what is going on here. Here are some options: The writer is terribly uninformed. The writer is feigning ignorance in a misguided attempt to instill delight and wonder into science. The… Read More »The Mystery of Electricity<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2198,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[37,6,44,8,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-apologetics","category-complaints","category-humor","category-linkage","category-mystery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2196"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2196\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5938,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2196\/revisions\/5938"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}