Scientism and Religion: Christian-Muslim Responses about Atheistic Ideology

Abstract

The scientism belief that science is the finest and only objective method for determining societal norms and scientific principles. Scientism has been changing the measurements of thinking and has been taking place in scientific, non-scientific, and all other social platforms. Contemporary atheist scientists think that science is the sole dependable source of knowledge and only access to certainty. Many prominent atheist scientists have claimed religion as hurdles and conflict in the pathway of scientific progress. They promote scientism as the best explanation for everything, instead of religion. Science, its ramifications, and its boundaries all have been discussed, as well as how legendary scientists cannot validate science to reality. On contrary, Muslim and Christian scholars argue that religion based believe in God who provides the purpose and meaning of human existence and their objective moral values. This is critical to comprehend how swiftly the idea of scientism is infiltrating every aspect of human affair and how disastrously it is wreaking havoc on society.

The purpose of this article is to examine how atheists establish science's supremacy in all spheres of human life and reject other sources of knowledge, especially matters related to the divine guidance for humanity. The study focuses on new atheists’ argumentation and the Muslim-Christian scholarly responses.