Hi there,
So there is a philosophical problem, with Scientism. That problem, is the value Scientism gives that which it starts out with. Science starts with unknowns. Scientism, takes those unknowns and equivocates that all unknowns have the same fundamental value. That value is antecedent. More specifically, to theory. Antecedent to theory. In other words, Scientism calls unknowns subjugant to theory.
The problem with subjugating all unknowns, to theory, is first that it encourages false positives. General theories, which discern little difference between one unknown and another, have the danger that one unknown be mistaken for another. Thus it appears that a theory can be made of something, when the precise unknown it is dealing with, is mistaken. Second, subjugating unknowns together suggests that one theory, about an unknown, is on equal footing with other theories, that take the same unknown as foundation. This leads to an idea of scientific progress, that all unknowns will one day be subject to an arch-theory, that is able to identify the value all unknowns are given, in the same given way.
What is needed, is imagination. Imagination, frees unknowns to be what they are for their own value. With imagination, unknowns are able to interact with each other, in ways that are far more creative, than they can ever be, held as subjugant to Scientism. This is a simple dynamic: the more freedom you give the imagination to deal with unknowns, the greater the overall creativity that those interactions achieve. It is not an assumption that science can not reckon with unknowns, but that science that prizes imagination before subjugating an unknown to a theory will arrive at the needed conclusion concerning that science, more quickly and more precisely than had it prized anything else.
What is intelligent about this, is that it allows utility to be found in the manner of approach, before foregone conclusions about what a given unknown can accomplish. "Design" is just one such kind of unknown. It is not that knowing what something is, tells you everything about what it can do, rather a designation of "design" suggests that a degree of what defines that design, is unknown even to the design. This amplifies its power, because it is in direct conjunction with what is unknown even to it: that is, what it is capable of. Thus you have the concept of intelligent design, which brings the unknown into relationship with the imagination.
I hope this has been of some education.
Thanks.
So there is a philosophical problem, with Scientism. That problem, is the value Scientism gives that which it starts out with. Science starts with unknowns. Scientism, takes those unknowns and equivocates that all unknowns have the same fundamental value. That value is antecedent. More specifically, to theory. Antecedent to theory. In other words, Scientism calls unknowns subjugant to theory.
The problem with subjugating all unknowns, to theory, is first that it encourages false positives. General theories, which discern little difference between one unknown and another, have the danger that one unknown be mistaken for another. Thus it appears that a theory can be made of something, when the precise unknown it is dealing with, is mistaken. Second, subjugating unknowns together suggests that one theory, about an unknown, is on equal footing with other theories, that take the same unknown as foundation. This leads to an idea of scientific progress, that all unknowns will one day be subject to an arch-theory, that is able to identify the value all unknowns are given, in the same given way.
What is needed, is imagination. Imagination, frees unknowns to be what they are for their own value. With imagination, unknowns are able to interact with each other, in ways that are far more creative, than they can ever be, held as subjugant to Scientism. This is a simple dynamic: the more freedom you give the imagination to deal with unknowns, the greater the overall creativity that those interactions achieve. It is not an assumption that science can not reckon with unknowns, but that science that prizes imagination before subjugating an unknown to a theory will arrive at the needed conclusion concerning that science, more quickly and more precisely than had it prized anything else.
What is intelligent about this, is that it allows utility to be found in the manner of approach, before foregone conclusions about what a given unknown can accomplish. "Design" is just one such kind of unknown. It is not that knowing what something is, tells you everything about what it can do, rather a designation of "design" suggests that a degree of what defines that design, is unknown even to the design. This amplifies its power, because it is in direct conjunction with what is unknown even to it: that is, what it is capable of. Thus you have the concept of intelligent design, which brings the unknown into relationship with the imagination.
I hope this has been of some education.
Thanks.
