Scientism Is Anti-Science | Robert Frederick on Francis Bacon

Our guest today, Robert Frederick, studies Sir Francis Bacon — the Elizabethan lawyer, spy, and philosopher usually credited as the father of modern science. Robert claims that Bacon is the father of both modern science and scientism.

If you’re thinking, “What the hell is scientism?” then this is the episode for you.

We talk about why saying “trust the science” is motivated by the same thing that makes people say “trust in God,” and how Francis Bacon was both a once-in-a-generation polymath, and also a pompous idiot who stripped culture of metaphysics.

Jordan also contends that true religion and real science should be the same thing, but that they both get corrupted in basically the same way.

Guys it’s a good one. (Isn’t it always?)

Shout out to the God’s Eye View podcast

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How Bacon got rid of metaphysics

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