That sounds fascinating, Richard.
Houston Smith sees no fundamental problem between science and religion. But the conversion of science to the fundamentalist religion of materialist “scientism” is another story.
“Whereas science is positive, contenting itself with reporting what it discovers, scientism is negative. It goes beyond the actual findings of science to deny that other approaches to knowledge are valid and other truths true. In doing so it deserts science in favor of metaphysics – bad metaphysics, as it happens, for the contention that there are no truths save those of science is not itself a scientific truth, in affirming it scientism contradicts itself. It also carries marks of a religion – a secular religion … Since reality exceeds what science registers, we must look for other antennae to catch the wavebands it misses.” Forgotten Truth, p 16/17.
And a very limiting fundamentalist religion it is. Scientism is a full-blown belief-system, whereas true science is observational and objective.
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