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    1. The document discusses a video on "The Magician's Twin" about C.S. Lewis's view of scientism. Scientism is an extreme trust in science that equates being scientific with power and credibility over other ways of knowing. 2. Lewis compares science to magic in how they can function as alternative religions by encouraging lack of skepticism and quests for power. 3. Science is more dangerous than magic according to Lewis because if a scientific method is found to control or manipulate things in the world, it can be used to control everything, whereas magic fails if it does not work.

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    1. The document discusses a video on "The Magician's Twin" about C.S. Lewis's view of scientism. Scientism is an extreme trust in science that equates being scientific with power and credibility over other ways of knowing. 2. Lewis compares science to magic in how they can function as alternative religions by encouraging lack of skepticism and quests for power. 3. Science is more dangerous than magic according to Lewis because if a scientific method is found to control or manipulate things in the world, it can be used to control everything, whereas magic fails if it does not work.

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    1. The document discusses a video on "The Magician's Twin" about C.S. Lewis's view of scientism. Scientism is an extreme trust in science that equates being scientific with power and credibility over other ways of knowing. 2. Lewis compares science to magic in how they can function as alternative religions by encouraging lack of skepticism and quests for power. 3. Science is more dangerous than magic according to Lewis because if a scientific method is found to control or manipulate things in the world, it can be used to control everything, whereas magic fails if it does not work.

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    1. The document discusses a video on "The Magician's Twin" about C.S. Lewis's view of scientism. Scientism is an extreme trust in science that equates being scientific with power and credibility over other ways of knowing. 2. Lewis compares science to magic in how they can function as alternative religions by encouraging lack of skepticism and quests for power. 3. Science is more dangerous than magic according to Lewis because if a scientific method is found to control or manipulate things in the world, it can be used to control everything, whereas magic fails if it does not work.

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    ACTIVITY 2

    Watch the video on “The Magician’s Twin”: CS LEWIS AND THE CASE AGAINST
    SCIENTISM. Answer the following guide questions.

    1. What is scientism?
    Scientism is a the extreme trust of human to the efficacy of natural science, and
    having the way of thinking that being scientific equates being inferior in terms of power
    and credibility which C.S. Lewis said to be the reason for the dark consequences of the
    improvement of science.
    2. How is science comparable to magic?
    C.S. Lewis compared science to magic in three ways: the religion, credulity and
    power. He indicated that the two ideas of science and magic are being in the way that
    they can able to function as an alternative religion in their encouragement of a lack of
    scepticism and their quest for power.
    3. Why is science more dangerous than magic?
    We cannot deny the fact that sciences is indeed very important and one of the
    greatest applications of the rational method but on the other side, though science is
    beneficial and yet compared with magic. Science is far more dangerous than magic
    because magic fails. If it doesn’t work then, it can’t be used to control the world while in
    science if you just find the right method or treatment then you’ll have the power to
    manipulate everything.
    4. What is the presented essence of modernity and its consequence?
    The essence of modernity is “nothing is sacred.” When modernity happens, one
    of the consequences is there will be no distinction between humans and animals and
    plants and other creature, we’ll all be the same and equal. No one is supreme.
    5. What do we need for the science to be good?
    C.S. Lewis said that science is good but scientism isn’t, so we must learn to
    control it and not the other way around that it will control us humans. First, we need to
    know and understand the limits of science and second, by creating a regenerate
    science that respected human rights and dignity and is no longer be the magicians twin.

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