Scientism is the belief that only science can impart reliable knowledge. It rules in our culture — in media and academia — even thoughts its fatal faults are evident on any careful examination. On a new ID the Future episode, host and science historian Michael Keas talks with philosopher J.P. Moreland about the nature of those faults and the costs of allowing scientism to go unchallenged.
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Professor Moreland is the author most recently of Scientism and Secularism: Learning to Respond to a Dangerous Ideology. He explain why “Science cannot function without the history and philosophy of science,” yet “scientists are not educated today to know that.” Meanwhile, vapid scientism exacts its toll:
The culture has become morally relativistic because the major things about religion and politics and ethics can’t be known scientifically. So what scientism has done is funded relativism in culture and blind faith commitments in Christianity. And that isn’t sustaining people when they get out of our youth groups and go to college or go out into the work force and meet thoughtful, intelligent unbelievers.
Of course, I should add that it is not Christians alone of whom this is true. For more with Dr. Keas and Dr. Moreland, see also “J.P. Moreland Schools an Obnoxious Atheist.”
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