Antonio T. Aban Jr.

BSIT-II

Documentary Film Analysis

1. Why was C.S Lewis very much as skeptic and critic of scientism? Was he
against science?

- I actually regard myself as pro-science. Scientism is the abuse of science by

claiming that science is the only way we can know the truth about anything. By
extension, it’s also the claim that scientists should have the right to rule over
society by virtue of their superior or technical expertise. Just like being a critic of
theocracy doesn’t make one anti-religious, being a critic of scientism doesn’t one
anti-science. If anything, it’s those who are trying to challenge scientism who are
defenders of science because they trying to rescue science from being applied
outside its proper boundaries, as for progress.

2. How did C.S. Lewis explain following.

2.1 Science as religion.

- Science has the capacity to induce worship to the same degree as any religion, her
prophets are scientists and professors, their decrees infallible! Indeed, doesn’t a
magical view of the world beguile one with a sense of awe that surely life is more than
our humdrum daily lives?

2.2 Science as credulity

-According to C. S. Lewis, is their encouragement of a lack of skepticism? This may

seem paradoxical to many people however, science Skeptics or dissenting views, for
example, are ridiculed as “global warming deniers,” “flat-Earthers” and are routinely
denied tenure as professors. Lewis pointed out that in the modern world, people will
believe almost anything if it’s dressed up in the name of science.

2.3 Science as power

-According to Lewis, is the lust for power. Magic covets power above all things.
Magicians, fortunetellers, witches all crave power over the natural world and over the
universe. They desire to possess the deeper, mysterious powers of nature in order to
control it, to control people.