Farewell to the myth of science

1. Entity type Lemma
2. Original titleПрощание с мифом о науке
3. Language term Russian
4. lemma author Saprykin, Dmitry
5. lemma category Various approaches to the problem of correlation between science and theology
6. Publication date 1999
7. lemma work Кураев Андрей диакон [Author]. Considering our fail.
8. lemma manifestations О нашем поражении. : Considering our fail.
9. Keywords occultism
10. Citations
    1. http://pravbeseda.ru/library/?id=342&page=book
11. Lemma body

    1. The author of this journalistic regards as a “myth of science” the viewpoint that science is not only the measure of all human actions, thoughts, feelings and fantasies, but also the only way to solve all human problems (cognitive, social, psychological, etc.) , and believes that this science omnipotence myth is passing away. Society (including the scientific community) reveals that one language is not enough to describe the entire diversity of the world in which man lives - even if it is the language of science. "There must also be other languages, other explanatory models: the language of music and the language of philosophy, the language of poetry and the language of myth ..."

       In modern understanding, science must be moral. So, the author believes, science can be open to comparison with the gospel doctrine - not in order to judge the Gospel according to its own patterns, but to let the human, moral dimension enter inside itself.

       Kuraev believes that in the old days there was no conflict between Church and science. "There was (and will be) only the conflict between Church and scientism as an ideology." Although there has never been a serious conflict between faith and science, there has been a myth about the conflict between Christianity and science. Today, the author believes, there are reasons to eliminate this myth. While Christianity was the only beyond the science, religious sector of public life, it seemed to be in an incompatible relationship with science. But when, at the end of the 20th century, non-Christian religious ideas started to be actively involved in mass consciousness, it became obvious that they were incomparably farther from the scientific standards of evidence and rationality than Christian theology. Thus, both the Church and science today are hampered by militant occultism.

       So, by the beginning of the 21st century, there were again created conditions for a strategic alliance of Church and science. After all, the easiest way to join is to find a common enemy. According to the author occultism is such a common enemy of scientists and priests.