The Magician's Twin

Based on the documentary that I’ve watched, it discusses how C. S. Lewis'

response to what he saw as 'Scientism'. Basically, he makes this point in three ways:

First is science act like religion because if we think that evolution as a man’s
struggle to survive natural laws, we have turned science into a divine story; a religion.
Just like when we celebrate the birthdays of famous scientists as holidays, we make
science a religion. When science is what gives your life its meaning, we make science
a religion. Lewis thought that science is dangerous because it speaks the truth.

Second is science can encourage credulity because people will believe in the
name of science. When something is dressed up as scientific, people will believe
anything. Lewis saw a logical flaw in Freudian psychoanalysis which was ignored
because it was represented as scientific. Lewis thought that if everything could not be
merely rationalized because it was based on more primitive desires, then why isn't
Freud's own theory subject to this rule

Lastly, science has power. For Lewis it is the most dangerous side of science. It
seeks power over nature and over people. Just like the Nazis promoted selective
breeding among human beings. This decision is only possible when no one is scared,
when human being is only seen as nothing. Also, science shows humans to be no more
than their material parts that can be used and manipulated to create power structures
just as religion can. Just as psychoanalysis destroyed everything else, it destroyed
itself.1

1
M. Bullock, ‘Scientism: The Magician's Twin’, 09 January 2015,
http://swivelchairtheologian.blogspot.com/2015/01/scientism-magicians-twin.html (accessed 24 Aug. 2015)