Assignment 6. Documentary Film Analysis
Mapua University
Science, Technology, and Society
Instructions: Watch and take notes on the documentary film, The Magician’s Twin: C.S.
Lewis and the Case Against Scientism, available on YouTube. Then, answer the
following questions:
1. Why was C.S. Lewis very much skeptic and critic of scientism? Was he against
science?
C.S. Lewis was very much skeptic and critic of scientism because he
understood that there can be an abuse of the power of a scientist. He understood
that scientism creates trade-offs because not everything in life is explained solely
by science. He was critic of scientism because scientism is about blindly
accepting and believing a concept just because it was made in the name of
science. He was not against science. He knows the distinction between science
and scientism and it was the latter in which he was against on. He was against
scientism for it states that science is the only true source of knowledge. C.S.
Lewis knows that science is not equal to reason but rather just a part of it. He
was against the idolization of and dependence on science. He was against the
wrong use of science not science itself.
2. How did C.S. Lewis explain the following:
2.1 science as religion
Something magical and enchanted gives people a sense of meaning. It
makes people think that there are more than just their everyday lives. It
strikes people, whether they are religious or not, deeply that there is
something higher than themselves. The magical view of the world attracts
them to think that there is someone or something behind it. In this same way,
science can be an alternative religion. Science is considered by some people
as a religion because it is what gives their lives meaning.
Mapua University
Science, Technology, and Society
Instructions: Watch and take notes on the documentary film, The Magician’s Twin: C.S.
Lewis and the Case Against Scientism, available on YouTube. Then, answer the
following questions:
1. Why was C.S. Lewis very much skeptic and critic of scientism? Was he against
science?
C.S. Lewis was very much skeptic and critic of scientism because he
understood that there can be an abuse of the power of a scientist. He understood
that scientism creates trade-offs because not everything in life is explained solely
by science. He was critic of scientism because scientism is about blindly
accepting and believing a concept just because it was made in the name of
science. He was not against science. He knows the distinction between science
and scientism and it was the latter in which he was against on. He was against
scientism for it states that science is the only true source of knowledge. C.S.
Lewis knows that science is not equal to reason but rather just a part of it. He
was against the idolization of and dependence on science. He was against the
wrong use of science not science itself.
2. How did C.S. Lewis explain the following:
2.1 science as religion
Something magical and enchanted gives people a sense of meaning. It
makes people think that there are more than just their everyday lives. It
strikes people, whether they are religious or not, deeply that there is
something higher than themselves. The magical view of the world attracts
them to think that there is someone or something behind it. In this same way,
science can be an alternative religion. Science is considered by some people
as a religion because it is what gives their lives meaning.
