Science and Life

While we learn that science is for designing computers, orbiting satellites and going to Mars, the application of the scientific method is much more.

Science has application in everyday life. We tend not to apply it because it is impersonal and associated with abstruse mathematical language and a strict, unrelenting logic of always trying to disprove what we consider to be the truth.

Look at the state of our economy, for example. While it determines every aspect of our lives, we tend to analyze it with unscientific cognitive process.

For example, if we say that all fair-haired people are criminals, there will be a tendency to treat them as criminals, and they will, then, tend to be criminals at the margin of social acceptance and participation. It is a tautology, a deduction that proceeds from a false premise resulting in a false confirmation of the hypothesis by causing the evidence. The result is a false induction.

Now that we face verifying the effectiveness of the various means to stimulate our economy out of a great post-Keynesian recession (deflation) in which economists are falsely arguing is unprecedented and are therefore at a loss for what to verifiably do, our ability to give the scientific method an application to everyday life is being saliently challenged.

If we proceed from the premise that government intervention in the marketplace is bad, there is a tendency to treat the need for intervention as bad, and that will, then, tend to result in policies that directly or indirectly result in a regressive tax burden that has a deflationary tendency that causes the need for government intervention. It is a tautology, a deduction that proceeds from a false premise resulting in a false confirmation of the hypothesis by causing the evidence. The result is a false induction.

As we apply the scientific method it is critical that we recognize that empirical truth is not something that can be proven. It can only be continuously tested and disproven (not confirmed by the evidence). Truth, then, is always becoming evermore apparent, or cognizant, as we always try to disprove it. This is called the null hypothesis. Like Einstein once said, paraphrasing: science is the cognitive process of always trying to disprove the existence of God. Since the process of nulling the hypothesis is in continuous process, the existence of God is continuously confirmed. Rather than being in conflict, science and theism is thoroughly compatible, reinforcing, and is unreasonably rejected as a cognitive method for evaluating everyday life. Rather, God challenges us to null the hypothesis--to find the truth.

If we are to find the truth of our economic predicament, what about the working hypothesis has been nulled or disconfirmed?

That would be the "trickle-down" hypothesis, or the hypothesis that regressive taxation produces the general welfare or the greatest public good.

The hypothesis has been thoroughly tested and decidely nulled!

The course of action to be taken for economic stimulus and reinvestment in 2009 is empirically clear and convincing.

A progressive tax code will be a minimal government intervention that will maximize the ability to reinvest, recapitalize, our economy into a sustainably peaceful and prosperous pluralism without either monetizing the debt or burdening the least able to pay it only with the assurance of future deflationary trends that can in no way be defined as the general welfare or the greatest public good.