"Rule by Experts" is Pseudo-Science
The article "Rule by Experts" Is Tyranny Shrouded in Science begins with - "Does the COVID-19 crisis support Neil deGrasse Tyson's call for 'Rationalia,' a world in which 'science' reigns supreme? Here's how C.S. Lewis would have answered." Read the whole article!
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So, what did C.S. Lewis actually write about this? The article continues - "C.S. Lewis wrote of this 'man-molding' in The Abolition of Man. He observed that the innovators and conditioners attempting to reshape society were doing so by attacking traditional values and mores." -
"A great many of those who 'debunk' traditional or (as they would say) 'sentimental' values have in the background values of their own which they believe to be immune from the debunking process. They claim to be cutting away the parasitic growth of emotion, religious sanction, and inherited taboos, in order that 'real' or 'basic' values may emerge."
When "science" goes beyond the boundaries of its definition - "the investigation by experimental trial and error of what can be known emperically by our five senses and instruments" - then it becomes "Scientism" or a "pseudo-science," an ideology based on the mistaken notion that the only things which really exist are those things that we can know emperically by our five senses and instruments. Thus it exceeds its own boundaries, transforming itself into a semi-religious worldview which denies the existence of the religious, the supernatural: only "natural" things are real, it says. We can't know God or the supernatural through our five senses, so that realm is simply a fairy-tale dreamed up by primitive man's overactive imagination trying to make sense of the world and life.
When faced with the problems of the limits of human knowledge and the seemingly endless number of events interacting with each other in this vast universe, Scientism says - "Everything is relative to everything else, there are absolutely no absolutes, and that's the absolute truth!" Do you see the paradox, the logical contradiction, there? It's like the high school sophmore who barely passed Beginning Algebra where he struggled with equations that had one variable, so when he got into Advanced Algebra with multiple-variable equations, he simply threw up his hands and said - "This is impossible to solve! There's no way anyone can find an answer!"
Yes, life can be frustrating, and not only for high school sophmores. But then the teacher patiently calms down the student and says - "What we need to do is to find just one fixed value and from there, we can start to solve the equation for all of those variables. Let's search for the constants." Searching for the constants, the real, unchanging, true truths, isn't easy - it takes time and effort... plus the conviction that there has to be an answer, or else our human rationality is itself irrational, so there would be no reason to search for an answer!
In our everyday experiences, we filter out roughly 95% of all the sensory input coming into our eyes, ears, touch, taste, and smell. If we didn't learn to do this as a child, we'd be overwhelmed by all of the "firehose of data" coming at us, which is what happens with autistic children. Then our brains try to process that 5% of raw data into useful information. But "we don't know what we don't know" - physicists are now saying that their delicate instruments indicate there must be something "out there" that those instruments can't detect, but by their calculations, this "dark matter" accounts for 95% of what exists in the whole universe.
So it comes down to this: our five senses and instruments can only perceive 5% of what exists, and of that 5%, our brains filter out roughly another 95%, meaning we can only ever possibly know 5% of 5%, or 0.0025 (that's 1/4 of 1%) of what exists. And most people know much less than that! This ought to make us very, very humble about how much we can ever know by scientific method or any intellectual endeavour. How could any "rule by experts" possibly know all of the unintended outcomes of their decisions?
So we need to go back to that "Advanced Algebra teacher," the ancient wisdom (Sophia) of God revealed to Moses and the prophets in the written word of God, the Old Testament, then to all nations through the living Word of God (Logos), Yeshua Meshiah in Hebrew, or Jesus Christ from the Greek language. He said - "I and the Father are one" (John 10:30) and "I AM the Way, the Truth, and the Life, no one comes to the Father but by Me!" (John 14:6). He is the only Way to ultimate Truth. The Apostle Paul wrote -
"For though we walk in the flesh, we don't wage war according to the flesh; for the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh, but mighty before God to the throwing down of strongholds, tearing down false ideologies and every high thing that is exalted against the knowledge of God, and bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ; and being in readiness to discipline all disobedience, when your obedience will be made full" (2 Corinthians 10:3-6).
Scientism leads to a dead-end: we must tear down this false ideology. We can, however, know the One Absolute, that One Fixed Constant to which everything else is relative. But it isn't easy, it comes only by "pursuing holiness, without which no one will see the Lord" (Hebrews 12:14). "But we all, with unveiled face beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are transformed into the same image from glory to glory, even as from the Lord, the Spirit" (2 Corinthians 3:18).
Mankind was created in the image and likeness of God, but fell into sin and rebellion against the knowledge of God. Then Jesus Christ, Who is the image (icon) of the Father, came to "make purification for our sins" (Hebrews 1:3) and restore us back into His image and likeness. That is holiness, that is the true knowledge of God!
In the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit! Christ is among us! He is and ever shall be!
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