In the early 1900s, G.K. Chesterton spoke of the unavoidable consequences of worshipping science above the sacred. Observing that the naturalists of his day were only too willing to turn their science into a philosophy and then impose their new religion upon all of culture with near fanatic zeal, Chesterton said, “I never said a word against eminent men of science. What I complain of is a vague, popular philosophy which supposes itself to be scientific when it is really nothing but a sort of new religion and an uncommonly nasty one.”
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2021/apr/18/anthony-fauci-americas-high-priest-of-scientism-we/
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Great point here:
“The physical sciences,” said Lewis, “good and innocent in themselves, [have] already … begun to be warped. [They have] been subtly maneuvered in a certain direction. Despair of objective truth [has] been increasingly insinuated into a concentration upon mere power …” Lewis knew that scientists, unhampered by any objective moral restraint, would always reach for, what his friend J.R.R. Tolkien called the “one ring to rule them all,” and he cautioned his readers accordingly.
