Reclaiming Humanity from Scientism
The internet can be considered a tool for information gathering, and like any tool, can be used for good or bad. It has helped promote atheism, which pretends to be about rational thinking. The internet also helped advance the Intelligent Design movement and biblical creation science.
Although atheists usually deny it, they are very religious. In their jumble of beliefs, Scientism usually comes out on top. That view reduces humans and everything else into its components, and that hard sciences are the only path to reality. Such a worldview is saturated with absurdities and arbitrary definitions, not the least of which is their self-serving definition of reality!
But the atheism that infested the internet was erroneously said to promote reason and science. It did not go well. Whether or not people actually became atheists and stayed with it, the damage was done and people became...soulless. Their thinking was mechanistic and reductionist.
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This child is not convinced of the left brain/right brain view where one is attuned to rational things and the other is more artistic, but it is used in the article featured below. Nonetheless, there is some truth to what the author says. Logic, beauty, wonder, love, and other things cannot be apprehended by Scientism. If people want to reclaim their humanity — their souls — they need to rearrange their thinking.
Hey, babe, take a walk on the nature side. Don't analyze the leaf or the reflection of the light on the water. Appreciate them. Indeed, getting into nature is good for your health. It is also good for your mental health, something to which I freely testify. Those of us who are born again children of the Creator can also use moments in nature to praise him.
How about the beauty of music? Marvel at a well-crafted piece. Sing "This is my Father's World" quietly in a wooded area. Look up at the starry sky. I watch a cat on the move and marvel art what I call the "feline machine" in action. Birds in springtime remind us that life goes on. Laugh at a joke.
Since the Enlightenment, the West has been a predominantly left-brain type of society, with an emphasis on rationality, analysis, and perhaps most significantly, efficiency. Artificial intelligence, we are told, will make our lives more efficient. Technologies throughout the last couple of centuries have promised the same luxuries, from the automobile to the microwave, but as impressive and helpful as many of these advancements have proved, we still are starved for something deeper, for meaning, beauty, and God. Science and technology were hailed as the saviors of mankind, but instead, they’ve helped to push out crucial aspects of the human experience.
This article from an Intelligent Design site is worth reading. To continue, visit "Recovering the Right Brain in a Scientistic Culture."