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Years ago, I had a conversation with a brilliant Stanford MD\/PhD student.\u00a0 He was fascinated with the growing field of artificial intelligence.\u00a0 It was the late 1980s.\u00a0 I asked him how the complexity of human beings could come from inanimate matter.\u00a0 He told me this was a philosophical question and he just did \u201cscience.\u201d\u00a0 It was a dodge, but I can\u2019t even say it was a clever dodge because no one can escape thinking philosophically.\u00a0 We human beings are constantly wondering what the \u201cgood life\u201d looks like so pondering the big questions (what the best approaches to philosophy are all about) is impossible to avoid.\u00a0 My Stanford interlocutor had confidence in the power of science for less than scientific reasons!\u00a0 He \u201cbelieved\u201d in science with a religious fervor which bordered on fanaticism.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n This budding scientist had a working philosophy<\/i> of science that matter is responsible for everything, even though that becomes illogical.\u00a0 There are various problems with believing science so called can explain everything.\u00a0 This view is called scientism<\/i>.\u00a0 Here is a good summary of the problems attached to scientism:<\/strong><\/p>\n It is self–refuting\u2014one cannot prove the statement itself scientifically.\u00a0 That is, there is no way to use our senses to test whether or not the claim that the senses are our only sources of knowledge is true.\u00a0 Second, there are a number of things we know that are not known through scientific means: the laws of math and logic, our own consciousness and thoughts, the reality of certain moral claims, and, of course, that God is real. Some of these are actually pre-suppositions of science and, as such, science could not even begin without knowledge of them.<\/strong><\/p>\n HT: Klaus Issler and J.P. Moreland, \u201cDoubter\u2019s Prison,\u201d interview by Marvin Olasky, World<\/i>, Sept. 20, 2008, 4 (Internet version).<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Years ago, I had a conversation with a brilliant Stanford MD\/PhD student.\u00a0 He was fascinated with the growing field of artificial intelligence.\u00a0 It was the late 1980s.\u00a0 I asked him how the complexity of human beings could come from inanimate matter.\u00a0 He told me this was a philosophical question and he just did \u201cscience.\u201d\u00a0 It […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,110,75],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apologetics","category-philosophy","category-science"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4622"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4622\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4624,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4622\/revisions\/4624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}