Three Shortcomings of Scientism
The Cold-Case Christianity Podcast
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🗓️ 16 March 2022
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
What do mean when we use the term, "scientism"? Can we trust science without relying on it in an unreasonable way? What are the dangers in an over-reliance on science? J. Warner and Jimmy Wallace discuss recent news articles in this episode of the NRBtv Cold-Case Christianity Broadcast.
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| 0:00.0 | Is science the only way to know if something is true? |
| 0:04.0 | A lot of people seem to think so, let's discuss it on this week's episode. |
| 0:11.0 | J. Warner Wallace is a cold-case homicide detective who's been investigating cold-case murders |
| 0:15.0 | in Los Angeles County for over a decade. |
| 0:17.0 | His work has been featured on Fox News, Date Line, and Core TV. |
| 0:20.0 | Now, we join him as he applies his investigative skills to making a case for Christian. |
| 0:31.0 | Welcome to the cold-case Christian broadcast. I'm Jimmy Wallace. |
| 0:35.0 | And I'm J. Warner Wallace. |
| 0:37.0 | This week we're going to talk about, I think, as a foundation of a lot of atheist skepticism that I'm seeing online. |
| 0:44.0 | Certainly, you probably see it too, and that's where you'll get people who will say, |
| 0:48.0 | look, you get to a place in your thinking as Christians, where if you can't explain the natural world around you, |
| 0:56.0 | like, you know, we're in a universe that has a beginning, therefore God created it. |
| 0:59.0 | Oh, we're in a universe that looks to be fine-tuned, therefore God. |
| 1:02.0 | You people are always jumping to God to explain things that eventually science has a good track history, |
| 1:09.0 | you know, a road record of solving for themselves. |
| 1:12.0 | I mean, just wait long enough, scientists will eventually provide you with a definitive answer. |
| 1:17.0 | You know, I used to think that Thunder and Lightning was the cause of the gods, |
| 1:21.0 | but eventually we figured it out scientifically. |
| 1:24.0 | So what I see within the atheistic community is that a lot of skepticism is grounded in the idea |
| 1:31.0 | that science provides us with better explanations than does theism. |
| 1:38.0 | Are you seeing that as well? |
| 1:40.0 | Yeah, and I think there's a variety of takes on that within atheism itself, |
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