JORDAN L. MATUDIO Sec: TO REVIEW: Scientism in its Form. The breakthrough of science essentially helps humanity to reach the optimal possibilities of the world. The unknown becomes known. The unthinkable becomes a belief. The impossibilities of existence existed. The stretch of science derives on how flexible it is to save, protect, and help and society as a whole. Science is a saviour to remake our world. Along with these overwhelming discoveries, they can also be a danger to people. Scientism sees science as the definite and only justifiable access to truth. According to Lewis, the idea that a purposeful process has been made by one’s mind sometimes produces things and moral beliefs that are against the need for survival. These mindless methods and ways just show how people can transition to be gullible in the name of science—harming humanity for believing these outlandish and fraudulent scientific ideas. That’s why he is against this idea. He brought to a conclusion that science per se has a constructive connection with magic. He regards that science is somehow a subset of religion. Science had a massive impact to the humanity even today as more people deemed science as a way to look their lives meaningful. They take science as a book of principles that they embody for their lives. There’s also “Science as Credulity” which imposes that those scientists can be gullible enough to conduct mindless and ruthless experiments that can eventually and probably harm humanity. He also pointed science can be a means of power as they use science to possess power and prestige. People from the modern world undeniably rely much towards the ideas of science. They are highly dependent on these methods and believe that the power of science is of its greatest virtue. But in fact, they are merely personal motives. According to Lewis, most scientists from the modern world are devoted towards power over the world. Modern science can be far more powerful and has the potential to manipulate the world. Science alone can’t be sufficient. And people relying too much from the ideas of science can be too risky to imagine. What society can do is to be intelligent enough to assess if certain scientific ideas have basis. Scientists could be in a great shape which he already prepared himself and has the strength to oppose and provide evidence whatever questions and assessment people can do to him. Ensure that enough information is obtained and complex ideas and scientific uncertainty are being explained. In which ways, we cannot be dictated with science only.
