J. P. Moreland on the Contradictions of Scientism

Intelligent Design the Future

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🗓️ 25 August 2023

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Are the hard sciences the only source of truth about reality? On this episode of ID the Future from the archive, host Michael Keas begins a conversation with philosopher J. P. Moreland about Moreland’s book Scientism and Secularism: Learning to Respond to a Dangerous Ideology. As Moreland explains, scientism is the belief that only the hard sciences can provide any reliably true knowledge. It's a claim that also gets applied to other disciplines outside science as well, suggesting that claims of reality in any field of human knowledge cannot be known one way or another. “It’s in the drinking water,” Moreland says, but it’s also self-refuting, and therefore irrational — and very damaging besides. Moreland gives examples. This is Part 1 of a conversation.

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0:00.0	Welcome to ID the Future, a podcast about evolution and intelligent design.
0:16.0	I'm your host today, Mike Keys.
0:19.0	We've got J.P. Morland with us today, distinguished professor of philosophy at Biola University, and also
0:25.8	a fellow of Discovery Institute.
0:28.9	Now he's authored somewhere around a hundred books that is edited contributed papers to were authored
0:34.4	including titles like naturalism a critical analysis he's just come out with a new
0:40.9	book called Scientificism and Secularism learning to respond to a dangerous ideology.
0:47.4	Welcome, J.P. to talk to me about your book.
0:49.4	It's such a joy to be with you, Michael, and to reconnect with you, my dear friend.
0:54.6	You know, even though you and I are colleagues by means of Discovery Institute and Biola
0:58.6	University, we rarely get to see each other.
1:01.4	That's just not right, J.P.
1:02.4	No, it's not. It's just not right, JP.
1:03.0	No, it's sad.
1:04.4	We've always had a good friendship connection,
1:06.3	Eve.
1:07.1	That was good to see you last summer
1:08.9	when I was in town briefly to teach at viola's
1:11.0	master's program in science and religion, which you helped to, you know,
1:15.3	with the inspiration to get that going, getting behind John Bloom, and thanks so much for that,
1:19.9	because I love teaching in that program.
1:21.6	Well, thank you for helping us with it, my brother.
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