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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, ten 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 as 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

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