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Welcome to the Eric Metaxus show.

I shouldn't tell you this, but Eric hired someone who sounds just like him to host today's show.

But since I'm the announcer, they told me, so I'm telling you, don't be fooled. The real Eric's in jail.

Hey there, folks. At Socrates in the city, we're doing a new thing. It's called the question of where we interview somebody. I'm not talking. We just let them talk on an important question. And we've got a number of those. They're all like nine,

10 minutes long. We're going to play one of those for you right now. Here it is. What is

Scientism? Scientism is a claim that the only way we have access or knowledge of the world is through

science. And that really science is the only way that we can know what's true in the world.

So that means other things like religion or philosophy. That doesn't give us access to the real

world. Only modern science and its methods give us access to the real world.

Scientism is a worldview is alluring to many people because modern science, everyone can see,

is a good thing.

And whether you use your microwave or your iPhone or something in between, you know, we all can see the benefits of science all around us.

And we use it every day.

We use it in modern medicine.

And so there are all these great benefits from science.

People have gone to the moon and now we're trying to go to Mars.

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