As stated before, Earthfolk hold that how
humans feel determines how they think—and
that, in the main, thinking reinforces feelings. “Sensual
immersion” is thinking with feeling, and feeling with
thinking. In this light, Scientism’s and the Earthfolk
approach to knowing the world and humans is quite different.
Our Earthfolk "scientism" holds
that humans are known and understood through
personal engagement and a sharing of their
intimate presence. This is a nonsensical approach
to Scientism advocates.
In contrast to our Earthfolk skepticism about
soft “social sciences,” Scientism
sees science as the absolute and only justifiable
access to the truth. For them, everything can
be subjected to scientific scrutiny. As will
be noted later, this is one critical and quite telling point
where the Secular and
the Scientism Big Stories intersect. Namely,
that there are no boundaries to
scientific exploration.
QED: the Atomic
Bomb.
Scientism is atheistic in that
there is no holy ground, no taboos, no area—human
or non-human—which cannot be investigated, probed, dissected,
analyzed, etc. As we Earthfolk see it, the Scientism creatively
imaginative thinker grants no absolute
or fundamental right(s) to anything human, such
as the right to privacy or the inviolability of person, either
physical or psychological.
Though all Scientism advocates would argue for the superiority of
the scientific method over any other way of knowing, there are distinctive camps within
Scientism. Within Scientism there are two approaches
to how Revealed and Scientism truths are interrelated.
Since the scientific method developed and evolved within the Abrahamic
Big Story there is a “Sacred Scientism” and
a “Non-Sacred Scientism.”
Continue—Sacred Scientism
