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Christianity is anti-science. Angus Menouge.

Scientism is the belief that science is the only source of knowledge about reality.

Scientism as a belief system is self-refuting. It asserts its correctness rather than fulfilling its own demand that correctness be demonstrated.

Science would be meaningless without a universal order. This order cannot exist as a result of arbitrary accidents.

Miracles do not violate the laws of nature. They show that nature is subject to a greater power.

Christians are in the best position to study science because of their calling to be humble stewards and neighborly servants.

One often hears that science has left Christianity behind. Some think that while science provides knowledge, Christianity speaks of things that cannot be known, like miracles, and offers only feelings without factual support.

It is also thought that we do not need the Christian faith anymore because science can account for everything.

This attitude leads some to embrace scientism that claim that science is the only source of knowledge about anything real.

Scientism regards Christianity as an anti-scientific worldview, one that affirms many things, like the creation of the world and Christ's resurrection, without scientific evidence.

Sadly, scientism's hostility to faith deters some Christians from pursuing scientific vocations.

In fact, we will see that these attitudes are based on serious confusions. We will show that scientism cannot be correct because it is a self-refuting position.

Second, we will explain how science, in fact, depends on Christian assumptions about the nature of the world and the nature of human beings.

Third, within this framework we can understand why miracles do not conflict with science.

Last, we will see why Christians have the best of reasons to pursue scientific vocations.

Scientism is self-refuting. It is possible to say things that undermine or refute themselves.

For example, if I say, I cannot talk to you, then my statement refutes itself since I am doing the very thing I claim cannot be done.

At a more theoretical level, some postmodern thinkers have argued that language cannot communicate truth, yet this claim is presented in language as a truth we can understand.

If we can understand the claim that language cannot communicate truth, language must be able to communicate and therefore the claim must be false.

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