with science, we will have the power of god, it will save us from catastrohphes

forget faith, only science can save us

modern science has remade our world but at what cost?

designer babies,

dark side of sci tech progress

gk chesterton
george orwell
cs lewis- power of scientism, to explain and control every part of human life.
sckeptic of scientism
methods of natual science should be followed

pursue sci to have power over ppl

avoid extremes in the employment and popu pf scinetism

tho its the greatest dev of tational method per se

20th it had consequences

sci socialism- a sci version of politics, sci sociamlism marxists call it

social darwon- racial sci in nazi - racial views

lewis saw these sci developments in ww, roots in barabaric and hysterical
scinetisitic ideas
abuses in the sci method and terminologoy and language abuses in sci faith

sci- ancient magic

sci and magic are twins, perceptive

1 sci as religion - function as religon

magical world gives grand vision something mout there, gives sense of meaning,
sense of grandeur, higher of ourselves
magical view more attratice. sci is an alternative rel,

hg wells- darwin theory. cosmic theory of life developing line of struggle

quasi religion
darwin day celebration
darwin helps us become an interllectuallly fulffilled atheist or
2012 converge in washington for reason rally, testify, offer sci as religion

2 sci as credulity
encourage of a lack of skepticism
promote gullibility
magic- withc doctors, magic thinking, trust them
people will beliece anything if its deressed in the name of sci

afreudianism sigmund--- claims of psychoanalysis reject, cxplainreligion to

stealing cars as a result of subcons urges

reasoning is based on subrational urges, we cant judge reason based on evidencethen

we cant be critical, itr destorys freudianism
if u try to deconstruct erthing u are left with nothing

house of hoorror

b evolutionasim-- matter could magically transform itself to conscious and complex

living things via unguided and blind process

a fatal self contracition, regardng human mind

dawrin- reasons unforeseen and unintended byproduct of a mindless process based on

siucrvial of the fittest

own mind- prod of irrational, how to trust mind if it tell me truth

horrid doubt always arrises whther convictions of a man's mind which has been
develped from the mind of the lower mind of the lower animas are of any value or at
alltrustworthy
would naynone trust the convitions of a monkey if there are any conv

means= natural and random genetic mutation gave rise to rreason, assume that this
reasons consistent with survival enhancing behavior. we have no reason no beleive
that we know truth if we have
reason designed for the survicacl
if naturalism is tru and darwinian mechanism more or less accounts for our reasons
then we should nt trust our reasons

purposeless n blind process without mind can priduce things human w minds, mindless
process procduce minds, it shows how gubllible can be in the name of sci

3 sci as power

quest for power

magicians wand power over world, harness powers of nautre

modenr sci devoted power

nothing is impossible, gives us good things, computers, life saving meds, but want
to control things orwellian state more dangr=erous than magic, it can control
people, it can manipulate
no ethical basis
bleak future

sci utopianism- sterilication of unfit, selective breeding, experimentation of

crminals sci planning that pretend to provide humanity do away ethical restraints

black denied penicillin

hideour world book- nothing is sacred. no distinctions betwen human animal minerals
same in 20th century

rise of sci authori, dgmatic use of sci

abolition of man book. new class od ppl sci pips

scientocracy- giv n soci based of modern science. right to rule based on their sci
kniwledge n expertise

barcode eryone
gps privacy
ehance humanity or

why not seize the power -other sci

labeled anti sci to those who are against scientism

not accept spcial form of knowl that is immune oto inspection

sci has particular areas of study it, good for public policy but its not enough,its
not just about the tehnical expoertise of howthings work, its about what food is
worth haveing at what price

sci traning no added value

pol and social judgements, how and ought to act and work better, whats worth doing
and what freedoms are worth giving up
questions in moral and ethical, sci traning- sci dont have right to dictate the
rest of socie

sci good thing, w string dangers, penchant to control, if one thinks that sci is
the only knowledge in the world
end of story- feeds the power trip
abuse power, dictate everything,

know hwat should happne, hkniow uni, ddicatete beliefs, what gov progs,pub policy,
now in consensue of csci and agaisnt of progresss

that's totatitatirna impulse potential within scie

need to understand imits of sci

theres a larger and ethical spehere behind sci

were part of univ
we should set limits

prevent good from being twisterd for evil ends

hope to sci. rescue sci frm scientism, respect hr and honor human dignity

respect HR

sci that would no longer be a magicians twin