Science Leads Towards Truth and God. Scientism Leads Away From God

Fr. Dwight Longenecker has written a book entitled Beheading the Hydra in which he points to a number of "isms" that inevitably lead us away from God, the source of Truth. One of the "isms" he points to is Scientism. He makes clear that Science and Scientism are two different things. Science is the discovery of the world around us using the scientific method: observations, developing a hypothesis, and designing experiments to prove your hypothesis wrong. Science thus seeks to find truth and thus is akin to the Truth. Scientism is the hijacking and cherry picking of some facts to construct something that has no basis in science, or even common sense.

Renee Parsons over at the American Thinker has a perfect example of Scientism in her article entitled Faux Science Dictates CDCs Covid Directives. What's more, she seems at times to be channeling Longenecker in calling out scientism as a false idol leading us away from God.

The mandatory COVID lockdown and vaccine requirements are sold to the public as a legitimate scientism perpetuated by a longtime government health institution once considered an independent watchdog. Instead, the CDC has a long history of offering politically inspired evidence as a facsimile for real science where the dilemma may rarely be settled. Thankfully, many medical professionals have stepped forward to pursue real science: an ongoing inquiry that raises doubt as it is tested with precise application, seeking analysis that develops through a rational examination of the facts based on reason, evidence, hypothesis, or collective investigation.

Today's scientism has become a world of political regimentation and medical tyranny based on "trust the experts" as it shuts down debate and threatens those professionals who dare question government sanctions. In addition, the CDC has deceitfully appropriated itself as the official legal enforcer of arbitrary unscientific principles as if Americans were required to unquestioningly obey its every directive, with no validating justification. At the same time, scientism allows local dictatorial health departments to overstep their authority as the State concedes its legal influence to unelected bureaucrats.

In other words, the Marxists continue to depend on a fabricated scientific worldview that supports their denial of religious or spiritual values, relying on state rhetoric with an embedded fixation. The CDC became bedrock for a delusional belief system as the fabric of reality unraveled into a materialist worldview where there is no God, which, in turn, stifles and inhibits free inquiry, once the very essence of science.

As Parsons points out, when scientism replaces science, people lose faith in the entire endeavor. Because scientism is not truth, but is also resistant to challenge, the discerning person is quickly turned off. This has been the record with the whole climate change regime. People claim a "consensus of scientists" for its authority. But of course true science doesn't rely on consensus, but on experiment and observation. But anyone who brings up these ideas is quickly denounced in the media as a crank. The same thing has been happening around the Covid pandemic. The media has tried to scare the public into believing that Covid is the most deadly virus in history. So far, observation tells us it is not. This is not science, and neither is scientism.

Of course go read the whole article. And consider getting a copy of Longeneckers book.