Hi Friends,

 

Just a quick note today to let everyone know about the new COSMOS program that debuted last night on FOX.  This is a visually impressive program that includes splashy computer graphic effects to explain about science, especially modern astronomy. 

 

If anyone watched this show, you would have seen that it emphasized a secularist worldview, and the "molecules to man" origin narrative of manstream science.  Like the original program by Carl Sagan, this new show has the ubiquitous anti-Christian bias, painting Christianity with the usual brush of being intolerant toward early modern science, and otherwise being generally ignorant. 

 

In response, I've teamed up with John Wilkerson of the Wired Homeschool.  For each week of this 13 episode series, John and I will be doing an interview-style podcast series called "Challenging the Claims of COSMOS."  We will be discussing the various topics presented on the program, and debunking any aspects that are challenge a Biblical worldview, particularly any that are unhistorical or otherwise unsubstantiated. 

 

In this way, we hope to innoculate Christian homeschool families against this high-budget Hollywood attack on our faith.  We also hope to equip Christian homeschoolers to approach scientific truth claims, and ask inquiring questions of mainstream science, to discern evidence from inference.

 

In this first episode, the 16th century Italian mystic Giordano Bruno is portrayed as an early martyr of science, having been burned at the stake by the Inquisition for believing in Kopernikanism and "the plurality of worlds."  John and I explain that Bruno was in fact a follower of "Hermeticism," a Renaissance-era "New Age" movement.  Being an unrepentant expounder of forbidden magic, that this was the real reason for Bruno's execution, and not for holding to Kopernikanism, according to the popular "urban legend" of mainstream science.  We cite and quote sources for this debunking, and present evidence that was missing from the program.

 

Please check out this podcast and share with your friends.  Also, follow The Wired Homeschool on Facebook.  Hopefully, we can help homeschoolers better understand and respond to this new series.  

 

Check out our Archive for previous editions of the Classical Astronomy Update. 

 

Til next time, God bless and clear skies,

- jay

 

The Ryan Family
Cleveland, Ohio, USA
 
 
When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and
the stars, which thou hast ordained, what is man that thou art
mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him?
- Psalm 8:3-4, a Psalm of David