{"id":2364,"date":"2012-10-24T08:11:00","date_gmt":"2012-10-24T08:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/2012\/10\/fr-barron-debunks-scientism.html"},"modified":"2012-10-24T08:11:00","modified_gmt":"2012-10-24T08:11:00","slug":"fr-barron-debunks-scientism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/2012\/10\/fr-barron-debunks-scientism.html","title":{"rendered":"Fr. Barron debunks scientism"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>Which is why you don\u2019t have to. \u00a0Anyone who thinks science has disproved anything about God is admitting they know little about science and its\u00a0limitations\u00a0 and probably next to\u00a0nothing\u00a0about\u00a0philosophy or theology. \u00a0In this gem of a clip, Fr. Barron obliterates the modern pop-science fad of writing books\u00a0claiming\u00a0that\u00a0science\u00a0 has proven God doesn\u2019t exist, or the universe doesn\u2019t need God. \u00a0Beyond Stephen Hawking\u2019s famous \u2018the universe can come from nothing, all it needs is gravity\u2019, this cuts to the heart of where science ends, and where scientism begins. \u00a0In short, science is the wonderful method for learning about the material universe. \u00a0Scientism is the misuse of science in order to\u00a0buttress\u00a0an argument that is\u00a0outside\u00a0the boundaries of science.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Which is why you don\u2019t have to. \u00a0Anyone who thinks science has disproved anything about God is admitting they know little about science and its\u00a0limitations\u00a0 and probably next to\u00a0nothing\u00a0about\u00a0philosophy or theology. \u00a0In this gem of a clip, Fr. 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