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    The document discusses several questions about science, technology, and society. It defines scientism as an excessive belief in scientific knowledge and techniques. It compares science to magic in three ways: as a replacement for religion, by encouraging a lack of skepticism, and as a quest for power that could endanger society if misused. Science is seen as more dangerous than magic because its potential is harder to control. While modern science brings benefits, it also enables dangerous scenarios like a scientific dictatorship if not balanced with rational and critical thinking.

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    The document discusses several questions about science, technology, and society. It defines scientism as an excessive belief in scientific knowledge and techniques. It compares science to magic in three ways: as a replacement for religion, by encouraging a lack of skepticism, and as a quest for power that could endanger society if misused. Science is seen as more dangerous than magic because its potential is harder to control. While modern science brings benefits, it also enables dangerous scenarios like a scientific dictatorship if not balanced with rational and critical thinking.

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    The document discusses several questions about science, technology, and society. It defines scientism as an excessive belief in scientific knowledge and techniques. It compares science to magic in three ways: as a replacement for religion, by encouraging a lack of skepticism, and as a quest for power that could endanger society if misused. Science is seen as more dangerous than magic because its potential is harder to control. While modern science brings benefits, it also enables dangerous scenarios like a scientific dictatorship if not balanced with rational and critical thinking.

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    The document discusses several questions about science, technology, and society. It defines scientism as an excessive belief in scientific knowledge and techniques. It compares science to magic in three ways: as a replacement for religion, by encouraging a lack of skepticism, and as a quest for power that could endanger society if misused. Science is seen as more dangerous than magic because its potential is harder to control. While modern science brings benefits, it also enables dangerous scenarios like a scientific dictatorship if not balanced with rational and critical thinking.

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    Manalang GE 5 Science, Technology and Society

    BS in Agro-forestry Code: 09097

    Questions:

    1. What is scientism?
    It is a thought or expression regarded as characteristics of scientist. It is
    the excessive belief in the power of scientific knowledge and techniques.

    2. How is science comparable to magic?

    First, science just like magic has the ability to function as religion or even
    to reject religion such as atheism. For example, there are people who treat
    Charles Darwin as their god that gives them the reason to live.

    Next is science as credulity. A second way which science and magic are
    similar according to Lewis is their encouragement of lack of skepticism. You
    easily believe of what the scientist tells you without you own speculations and
    rationalization.

    And last is science as power. Science just like magic it is the quest of
    power. Magician wants a power to control the world or even universe. It can all
    put us in danger if it is in the hands of evil people.

    3. Why is science more dangerous than magic?

    According to the video clip, science is more dangerous than magic


    because, magic may fail and work in the end of the day but modern science has
    the potential that you can’t control. We must find a way in limitation and
    protection in the name of science.

    4. What is the presented essence of modernity and its consequence?

    We can’t deny that modern science brings a good thing that they called as
    science utopia. But science also can put us in danger. In the book of Lewis
    entitled “That Hideous Strength” on which tells the story of the conspiracy to
    transform England into a scientific dictatorship. The conspiracy is led by the
    government beaurocracy. It includes the sterilization of unfit, selective breeding,
    bio-chemical conditioning and the experimentation of animals and criminals that
    will give you a dark imagery.

    5. What do we need for the sciences to be good?


    Science must interact with each other in order to be good by means of the
    larger tools of good rational and critical thinking and so that the scientist are
    subjective to review by everyone who is able to think well and to think rationally.

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