MUST-READ: What’s the difference between science and scientism?

Here’s an article by Edward Feser at Public Discourse. (H/T via ECM)

What is scientism?

Scientism is the view that all real knowledge is scientific knowledge—that there is no rational, objective form of inquiry that is not a branch of science. There is at least a whiff of scientism in the thinking of those who dismiss ethical objections to cloning or embryonic stem cell research as inherently “anti-science.” There is considerably more than a whiff of it in the work of New Atheist writers like Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens, who allege that because religion has no scientific foundation (or so they claim) it “therefore” has no rational foundation at all.

What’s wrong with scientism?

Despite its adherents’ pose of rationality, scientism has a serious problem: it is either self-refuting or trivial. Take the first horn of this dilemma. The claim that scientism is true is not itself a scientific claim, not something that can be established using scientific methods. Indeed, that science is even a rational form of inquiry (let alone the only rational form of inquiry) is not something that can be established scientifically. For scientific inquiry itself rests on a number of philosophical assumptions: that there is an objective world external to the minds of scientists; that this world is governed by causal regularities; that the human intellect can uncover and accurately describe these regularities; and so forth. Since science presupposes these things, it cannot attempt to justify them without arguing in a circle. And if it cannot even establish that it is a reliable form of inquiry, it can hardly establish that it is the only reliable form. Both tasks would require “getting outside” science altogether and discovering from that extra-scientific vantage point that science conveys an accurate picture of reality—and in the case of scientism, that only science does so.

What else is wrong with scientism?

The irony is that the very practice of science itself, which involves the formulation of hypotheses, the weighing of evidence, the invention of technical concepts and vocabularies, the construction of chains of reasoning, and so forth—all mental activities saturated with meaning and purpose—falls on the “subjective,” “manifest image” side of scientism’s divide rather than the “objective,” “scientific image” side. Human thought and action, including the thoughts and actions of scientists, is of its nature irreducible to the meaningless, purposeless motions of particles and the like. Some thinkers committed to scientism realize this, but conclude that the lesson to draw is not that scientism is mistaken, but that human thought and action are themselves fictions. According to this radical position—known as “eliminative materialism” since it entails eliminating the very concept of the mind altogether instead of trying to reduce mind to matter—what is true of human beings is only what can be put in the technical jargon of physics, chemistry, neuroscience and the like. There is no such thing as “thinking,” “believing,” “desiring,” “meaning,” etc.; there is only the firing of neurons, the secretion of hormones, the twitching of muscles, and other such physiological events.

Scientism can’t even ground our own experience of 1st-person consciousness.

Filed under: Commentary , Consciousness, Determinism, Dualism, Edward Feser, Free Will, Knowledge, Logic, Materialism, Philosophy, Rationality, Science, Scientism, Self Refutation, Self-Refuting, Truth

Mark Driscoll’s sermon series on the Song of Solomon, part 6 of 10

The series of talks covers the entire Song of Solomon.

The story so far:

• Part one
• Part two
• Part three
• Part four
• Part five
• Part six

Let’s look at part six today. Today Mark looks at chapter 6 of Song of Solomon, to see how couples should be reconciled after they sin against one another.

Here is the MP3 file for part 6 of 10.

Conflict resolution:

• The person who sins in the marriage has to pursue the spouse to be reconciled
• Husbands feel terrible when their wives reject them and leave them alone
• Face-to-face eye contact talking is the best way to get conflicts resolved
• Compliments are helpful for resolving difficulties
• Need to express the desire to work through these problems

Sinning against your spouse:

• Marriage doesn’t mean that spouses aren’t going to sin against one another
• All sin requires that someone be punished
• Either that someone is going to be Jesus, or the guilty spouse
• If the innocent spouse doesn’t accept that Jesus forgives that sin of the guilty spouse, then he will make the guilty spouse pay for the sin somehow
• if the spouses keep trying to punish each other for past sins, then the marriage is doomed
• Jesus atones for all sins, so forgiveness from him is claimed, the cycle of revenge must stop
• What should the guilty person do when they sin?
  1) they should repent, admit that what they did was wrong
• What should the innocent person do when the guilty person repents?
  1) they should accept the repentance as full payment
• What is repentance?
  1) You need to feel convicted of having done something wrong
  2) You need to confess to the person you wronged and other trustworthy people, that you did wrong
  3) You have to make a good faith effort not to do it again, and to be accountable
  4) You have to make restitution – restore people who you sinned against back to where they were
• Bitterness is the refusal to forgive
• Forgiveness is not based on what the other person does, it’s Jesus who has to pay the debt
• You have to repent for your own sin, not repent everyone else’s sin for them
• Although you may be justified in having a claim on the bad person, you have to let it go
• Jesus forgave even his enemies
• If we expect to be forgiven for our sins, then we should forgive our spouse
• What forgiveness is not:
  1) it’s not approving, e.g.
  2) it’s not excusing, e.g. – it’s not genetic
  3) it’s not denying sin
  4) it’s not ignoring sin
  5) it’s not forgetting that sin happened (just can’t USE IT in a fight)
  6) it’s not diminishing sin
  7) it’s not pretending
• what is forgiveness?
  1) loving in spite of what the person has done
  2) don’t punish them
  3) you can keep a record of sins to use in a fight
  4) choosing to be merciful
  5) it’s not necessarily a one time event
  6) it’s doesn’t result in immediate reconciliation
  7) it’s not a restoration of trust, that has to be rebuilt over time
• Spouses should recognize their own sin, bitterness, repentance and forgiveness
• Forgiveness is not something that people deserve, it’s a gift from God that people give to each other when they are wronged

My thoughts

• I find it very easy to forgive people if they feel convicted and they confess honestly. After all, if they are their own worse judge, then there is no need for me to judge. It’s fun to be forgiving with people who are their own worst judge and who blame themselves completely in spite of mitigating circumstances.
• I think that doing the right thing just because the Bible says so can be difficult. He actually did come out and say that it is hard to repent unless your mind is changed (Rom 12:1-2), and that’s exactly what I am talking about. Only he emphasizes Bible, Bible, Bible, whereas I like to supplement with objective reality. Still he emphasizes the mind changing. It’s a start. I think people can do a better job by studying issues in order to confirm what the Bible says, so that it’s easier to
• For example, let’s say you have an abortion. Then you can go and study about it and then understand what harm results from it, so that you are convinced why you should not do it again
• I’m a little concerned by all this fighting talk. My parents fought a lot, but nothing as bad as what he is saying… yipes! This cheating on your spouse stuff is really bad
• One thing: do you readers think that a person has to repent before you can forgive them? I think that

The story of the woman caught in adultery

Also, did you guys know that the women stoned for adultery in John 7 is a very late addition and not Biblical?

Check out this story from Christianity Today.

Excerpt:

When Dallas Theological Seminary professor Daniel Wallace examined New Testament manuscripts stored in the National Archive in Albania last June, he was amazed by what he did not find.

The story of the woman caught in adultery, usually found in John 7:53-8:11, was missing from three of the texts, and was out of place in a fourth, tacked on to the end of John’s Gospel.

“This is way out of proportion for manuscripts from the 9th century and following,” Wallace said. “Once we get into that era, the manuscripts start conforming much more to each other. Thus, to find some that didn’t have the story is remarkable.”

It’s a very late addition (5th century), and not authentic to John. I think a lot of people like that story because they really really don’t want to be held accountable or judged. I love being held accountable and judged. I never ever fight it, and never get mad at the judge. I just look at the judgment on the merits and decide if it’s true. It doesn’t matter how it makes me feel, it doesn’t matter if the person is shouting, it doesn’t matter if the judge is bad himself. Just listen to the judgment and adjust. Case closed.

I think this verse is also cited by people who are anti-capital-punishment, so it’s also good for disproving that. I’m pro-capital-punishment, of course.

Filed under: Podcasts , Marriage, Sin, Love, Man, Woman, Male, Female, Repentance, Spouse, Forgiveness, Mark Driscoll, Mars Hill Church, John 7:53-8:11, Pericope, Bitterness

Switzerland company to manufacture condoms for 12-14 year olds

From the UK Telegraph. (H/T Caffeinated Thoughts via ECM)

Excerpt:

Extra small condoms for boys as young as 12 are going on sale in Switzerland.

Called the Hotshot, the condom has been produced after government research showed 12 to 14-year-olds did not use sufficient protection when having sex.

The study, conducted on behalf of the Federal Commission for Children and Youth, interviewed 1,480 people aged 10 to 20.

It showed more 12 to 14-year-olds were having sex, in comparison with the 1990s.

Nancy Bodmer, who headed the research, said… “The results of this study suggest that early prevention makes sense.”

[...]Nysse Norballe, a spokesman for the company, said: “At the moment we are only producing the Hotshot in Switzerland. But the UK is certainly a very attractive market since there is a very high rate of underage conception. The UK would definitely be top priority if we marketed abroad.”

[...]The UK has the highest teenage pregnancy rate in Europe.

In 1999, the government pledged to halve the teenage conception rate within 10 years.

But data released last week from The Office for National Statistics shows it has clearly failed to make any significant impact.

Maybe the government should commission some research on how premarital sex affects people’s ability to form stable, life-long marriages.

Filed under: News , 12, 12-14, 14, Bonding, Condom, Contraception, Family, Marriage, Premarital Sex, Sex, Switzerland, Teen Pregnancy, UK

A father explains what it is like to grow up fatherless

Post here on the Goranson family blog. (H/T Caffeinated Thoughts)

Excerpt:

I grew up fatherless.  I saw my dad a few times growing up.  I knew his name and whereabouts.  I spent about two weeks with him in 1991 and he was always very kind to me when we saw each other.  I got cards most birthdays and christmases.  But he wasn’t a part of my life, was never married to my mother, and we lived many states away from each other most of my childhood.  It wasn’t until I was 17 that I began to get to know my dad and to develop the friendship with him that I am grateful we still have.  We are a testimony to genetics and I’m proud to be his son.  My mother was young and I was a surprise.  I never wondered if she loved me but I also knew she struggled in many ways raising a son by herself.

The path of fatherlessness was a long and painful road shrouded in insecurity for me.  It is a path so far off the one God meant for families that I didn’t know I was even on it until I had my own kids.  I knew it was better to have a mom AND a dad but I didn’t understand what I was missing.  As I’ve been reflecting on my role in my own kids’ lives, it’s proven to be extremely painful for me as I look back on my childhood.  So I figured I’d write a bit about it…

What potential in me was lost not having a father and being exposed to men who were perfect losers?  What struggles would have been overcome earlier in life or avoided altogether?  What could my father and I have learned from each other?  How much less equipped am I to be a father and husband having [grown up?] without many positive male role models in my early childhood?  How much relational heartache could I have avoided?  How many unhealthy situations as a kid would have been avoided?  How did the fear and insecurity that plagued my childhood affect me today?

This is a shot in the arm you all you Dads out there who wonder whether anyone understands and appreciates the sacrifices you’re making to be a good husband and father. This post made me feel really sad. I’m always pretty emotional when it comes to things like this, but this one really hit me hard. (Especially the “But can you ever truly recover…” paragraph)

I think that people think that I am super-focused on apologetics, but that is only because I don’t know many people who are dealing with health struggles, family struggles and money struggles. I think that when I take time to read things like this, it helps me to be more alert about taking the opportunity to weep with those who weep. If you have trouble understanding what it is like to be without a father, then read the post and let your heart be informed and softened.

Maybe those of us with intact families should be more interested in opening up our homes to troubled kids to come over and experience life in a healthy family? It seems that being able to observe love in action would really have a big impact.

Filed under: Commentary , Biological Parent, Childhood, Children, Dad, Depression, Family, Father, Fatherlessness, Kids, Loss, Marriage, Sadness, Traditional Marriage, Two Parent

How green lobbyists shape energy policy in the Obama administration

Story here at the Washington Times. (H/T ECM)

Excerpt:

In 2008 and 2009, Mr. Obama told Americans on no fewer than eight occasions to “think about what’s happening in countries like Spain [and] Germany” to see his model for successful “green jobs” policies, and what we should expect here.

Some Spanish academics and experts on that country’s wind- and solar-energy policies and outcomes took Mr. Obama up on his invitation, revealing Spain’s policies to be economic and employment disasters. The political embarrassment to the administration was obvious, with White House spokesman Robert Gibbs asked about the Spanish study at a press conference, and the president hurriedly substituted Denmark for Spain in his stump speech.

Team Obama was not amused, and they decided to do something about it. The crew that campaigned on change pulled out the oldest plan in the book – attack the messenger. The U.S. government’s response to foreign academics, assessing the impact in their own country of that foreign government’s policies, was to come after them in a move that internal e-mails say was unprecedented. They also show it was coordinated with the lobbyists for “Big Wind” and the left-wing Center for American Progress (CAP).

What emerged was an ideological hodgepodge of curious and unsupported claims published under the name of two young non-economist wind advocates. These taxpayer-funded employees offered green dogma in oddly strident terms and, along the way, a senior Obama political appointee may well have misled Congress.

[...]What is clear is that the Department of Energy then worked with Center for American Progress and the industry lobby AWEA to produce an attack that would serve all their interests.

First we had ClimateGate, and now we have WindLobbyGate.

Filed under: News , Barack Obama, Big Wind, Climate Change, Corruption, George Soros, Global Warming, Green Jobs, Green Lobby, Lobbyist, Research, Socialism, Spain, Spanish, Study, Van Jones, Wind Power

Mark Driscoll’s sermon series on the Song of Solomon, part 5 of 10

The series of talks covers the entire Song of Solomon.

The story so far:

• Part one
• Part two
• Part three
• Part four
• Part five

Let’s look at part five today. This one is the one about sex that everyone complains about. In this one he is talking about the woman’s sin, (last week was the man’s sin), and the first thing out of his mouth is about how we live in a culture where you can’t even say that women sin, and also that men are always to blame. Do you realize what this means? It means I really shouldn’t have been quite so hard on him in part 2. He is pro-male, at least to some degree. Yahoo!

I hope I don’t alienate my readers by saying that this sermon was immensely useful and practical and I agreed with every word of it. I am intensely curious about women and marriage, and so finding out what the Bible says is just awesome for me. I am glad that it agrees with other things I read from Jewish and Christian scholars (where there is overlap!). I really like the way he attacked the sinfulness of his own flock and judged them and gave them rules! He even judged me for not being focused enough on serving, because I’m single. I don’t mind being judged that way. He means well, he’s calling me higher. So it’s OK.

Here is the MP3 file for part 5 of 10.

Introduction:

• Based on the questions he’s receiving, what is going on in his church?
• the people in his church are selfish
• 1) when it comes to sex, they are not really interested in serving they are interested in taking
• 2) they all think that they are the exception to the Biblical rules
• 3) they think that God, marriage, sex and children are disconnected and unrelated
• many people want sex apart from God, marriage and children
• 4) there is pressure from people to legitimize their sinful lifestyles
• sometimes this is followed by retaliation when legitimization is denied
• 5) people are looking to find out how close they can get to sin without getting in trouble
• Driscoll wants people to stop being selfish, and instead to be a servant

The text:

• The sin of the woman (rejecting her husband) is also done by men, it can be applied to men
• The man wants to be together with her in the bedroom, and she shuts him out
• She makes excuses about why he can’t come in, then goes to sleep
• He wanders away to be by himself
• He didn’t do anything violent or abusive to get rejected
• Later on, she tells her friends that there isn’t anything wrong with him

The analysis:

• Four ways that things go wrong in the bedroom
• 1) deny your spouse outright
• 2) don’t initiate, but instead wait to be asked
• 3) don’t participate and try to rush things along
• 4) making yourself unattractive or unavailable
• Reasons why people are selfish in the bedroom
• 1) Experiences of abuse before the marriage
• 2) Overlooking the obligations of marriage, but demanding the benefits
• 3) Fatigue
• 4) Control and manipulation – use sex as a bargaining chip in disputes
• 5) Often, the person who wants sex less tends to view the other person as abnormal
• Regular sex is a great way to help men avoid being tempted by pr0n
• 6) People feel guilty about their past and it causes feelings of shame and guilt
• 7) A special effort needs to be made during pregnancy to keep things regular
• 8) There are problems outside of the bedroom
• 9) Boredom
• 10) Women should see themselves as sexual beings
• 11) Deciding what is permitted in the bedroom using Paul’s 3 questions
• Ask: is it legal? (according to the Bible)
• Ask: does it fit the purposes of sex? (pleasure, children, unity, intimacy, sin avoidance, comfort)
• Ask: will it an unhealthy addiction?
• How do you avoid selfishness? By focusing on serving you spouse
• Follow Jesus’ example of service
• Don’t wait to have sex when you both feel like it
• Marriage is about honoring your obligations whether you feel like it or not
• There should be two-way conversation about serving inside and outside the bedroom

My thoughts

• Driscoll says that men can’t argue with their wives because they lose whether they win or lose
• I really like this sermon, because I’ve written about this issue before, based on Dennis Prager and Dr. Laura’s “Proper Care and Feeding of Husbands” (they are both Jewish so their views will be consistent with Driscoll’s on this issue)
• I like way that he says that abuse/neglect during childhood doesn’t provide a justification for being guarded/withholding
• He thinks that sex should be a daily event (speaking as a virgin, let me just say yippee!)
• I loved it when he said (echoing me) that the man cannot work only when he feels like it, so the woman should not be intimate only when she feels like it
• I also liked it in the Q&A where he talked about how much men appreciate a little effort because it gives them hope that things will continue to progress in a positive way over time

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• How to communicate requirements to a Christian woman during courtship
• How feminism made women unsuitable for marriage and parenting
• Why men should refuse a woman’s offer of casual sex
• What has Michele Bachmann got that third-wave feminists haven’t got?
• How Christian women can make Christian men marry without using sex appeal
• John Piper’s questions to ask before you get married
• Does a man’s decision to marry negatively impact his service to God?
• The rules for friendship and courtship between Christians
• What Christian men want from Christian women… in paintings!
• Why Christian men should be chaste
• Should Christians marry non-Christians?

Filed under: Podcasts , Bedroom, Denying Sex, Mark Driscoll, Marriage, Mars Hill Church, Selfish, Selfishness, Servant, Service, Sex, Sin, Song of Solomon, Song of Songs, Withholding Sex

ACORN registration workers charged with felony voter fraud

Story from Fox News. (H/T Dad)

Excerpt:

Five Wisconsin residents, including two who worked for community organizing group ACORN, were charged Monday with election fraud relating to the 2008 presidential election.

State Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen announced felony charges against Maria Miles, Kevin Clancy, Michael Henderson, Herbert Gunka and Suzanne Gunka.

Miles and Clancy worked for the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now and are accused of submitting multiple voter registration applications for the same individuals, including each other, to meet voter registration quotes imposed by the community organizing group.

Henderson is charged with one count of voting by a disqualified person and providing false information to election officials. The allegation claims he was on a felony probation and prohibited from voting at the time.

Herbert and Suzanne Gunka are each charged with double voting — a felony — by allegedly absentee voting and then going to the polls to vote.

Michele Bachmann catalogs some more, as she struggles to block federal funding of ACORN:

Stanley Kurtz at National Review wrote the definitive article on Obama’s connections to ACORN.

Filed under: News , ACORN, Barack Obama, Barney Frank, Community Organizer, Corruption, Criminal Activity, Cronies, Cronyism, Democrat, Democrats, Fraud, Left, Left-Wing, Michele Bachmann, Obama, Progressive, Progressivism, Voter Fraud

Abortion specifically mentioned in health care reform bill

Video here: (H/T Ace of Spades via ECM)

And ECM also sends word of this story from Politico.

Excerpt:

Rep. Eric Massa (D-N.Y.) says the House ethics committee is investigating him for inappropriate comments he made to a male staffer on New Year’s Eve — and that he’s the victim of a power play by Democratic leaders who want him out of Congress because he’s a “no” vote on health care reform.

“Mine is now the deciding vote on the health care bill,” Massa, who on Friday announced his intention to resign, said during a long monologue on radio station WKPQ. “And this administration and this House leadership have said, quote-unquote, they will stop at nothing to pass this health care bill. And now they’ve gotten rid of me, and it will pass. You connect the dots.”

Scary.

Filed under: News , Abortion, Bill, Coverage, Democrat, Eric Massa, Ethics, Funding, Health Care Reform, Health-care, House, Investigation, Nancy Pelosi, Senate, Taxpayer

State legislatures aim to pass bills to guarantee academic freedom

Story here from Evolution News.

Excerpt:

The recent front page New York Times article on academic freedom legislation offers a stark reminder that the intelligentsia is very worried about the prospect of teachers gaining academic freedom, as a bill presently in the Kentucky legislature would allow, “to help students understand, analyze, critique, and review scientific theories in an objective manner, including but not limited to the study of evolution, the origins of life, global warming, and human cloning.”

From 2008-2009, 12 academic freedom bills were submitted into state legislatures, including Florida, Alabama (2), South Carolina (2), Missouri (2), Michigan, Louisiana, Oklahoma, Iowa, and New Mexico. Now in 2010, there are 3 bills already, including bills in Kentucky, Missouri, and Mississippi.

Here are a couple of examples:

The Kentucky bill encourages teachers to “promote critical thinking skills, logical analysis, and open and objective discussion of the advantages and disadvantages of scientific theories being studied.”

The Missouri bill allows teachers “to help students understand, analyze, critique, and review in an objective manner the scientific strengths and scientific weaknesses of the theory of biological and hypotheses of chemical evolution.”

Details on the language used in each bill is provided in the post.

Filed under: News , Academic Freedom, Bill, Education, Evolution, Expelled, Intelligent Design, Legislation, Legislature, School, Student, Teacher

Police probe death of NHS hospital patient who begged for water

Story here from the UK Telegraph. (H/T ECM)

Excerpt:

A hospital patient, Kane Gorny, died of dehydration after becoming so desperate for a drink of water that he called police for help.

The 22-year-old was not given vital medication after an operation at St George’s Hospital in Tooting, south London, according to his mother.

A coroner has such grave concerns about the case that it has been referred to police who are investigating Mr Gorny’s care.

[...]His mother, Rita Cronin, says he needed drugs three times a day to regulate his hormones, but he was not given them by hospital staff.

She said he became very dehydrated but his requests for water were refused and nurses called in security guards to restrain him when he became angry.

He became so frustrated that he rang the police from his bed to demand their help but officers were assured Mr Gorny was fine.

She said nurses assumed he was just badly behaved.

Mr Gorny’s cause of death was determined to be dehydration.

The UK Daily Mail adds:

Miss Cronin… said: ‘The police told me he’d said, “Please help me. All I want is a drink and no one is helping me”.

[...]‘I told three nurses there was something wrong with my son and they said, “He’s fine” and walked off. I started to cry and a locum doctor who was there told me not to worry.

[...]His mother added: ‘When I went back to the hospital I was told that all the nurses had been offered counselling as they were so traumatised, but nothing was offered to me.

‘The whole thing is a disgrace. This hospital has a brilliant reputation and boasts of its excellent standards and safety record.

‘But as soon as my son walked into that ward, his death warrant was signed. Of the 32 people who were involved in my son’s care, every one made a mistake that ultimately led to his death, from the consultant to the care assistant.

‘There has been an internal investigation but St George’s never made it public and it was a whitewash-After his death the hospital never phoned me or wrote to me to apologise. How could this happen in the 21st century?’

When you buy something from someone, you stand a much better chance of getting quality service from them if you have the money in your hand and you can take that money somewhere else if you are not satisfied with the offer in front of you. That’s why free market capitalism is great for the consumer, but it sucks for the corporations. The corporations have to compete to give you what you want at the lowest price. But when government takes over a service, you have no choice. It’s a monopoly, and you dance to their tune. They get paid through tax money whether they give you what you want or not!

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Filed under: News , Big Government, Britain, Bureacracy, Government, Government-Run Health Care, Health-care, Medical Care, National Health Service, Nationalized Health Care, NHS, NHS Horror Stories, NHS Horror Story, Nice, Public Option, Socialism, Socialized Health Care, Socialized Medicine, UK, Unions