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Earlier this week, we interviewed Jason Ström about the failures of scientism. Jay is a member

of our Savior's Way Lutheran Church in Ashford, Virginia, a physicist and optical engineering

Spanish career as an experimental scientist for the United States Army's night vision lab,

and he's all through the book, loving science, but not the empire, how science reveals

a creator, but the establishment keeps us in the dark. We covered questions like the scientific

method, what is it really? What is scientism? Can the evolutionary model explain the evidence

that we find in the world around us? Well, let's pick up where we left off with

Jay's answer to the question, how is the discipline of anthropology ruled by the philosophies

of naturalism and materialism? Anthropology is dead in the middle of what we talked about

earlier, it's one of the historical sciences. So interpretation is everything. You know,

you find some bones, but what do the bones mean? Where did they come from? How did they

get there, et cetera? It's rife for interpretation in anthropology is really, I think there's more

examples of hoaxes and gaffes, probably than any other field of science. And I give lots

of examples of these in the book, like tilt down man was probably the greatest hoax in modern

science, tilt down man was in this gravel pit in England in a place called tilt down. One

year they found most of a human skull but missing the jaw. And like four years later in the

same gravel pit, they found a jaw, but it was ape-like. So they decided that the skull

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