Idolatry (biblical)- worshiping idols in turn creating an image they believe to have power but forgeting their own role in creating that as an idol in their own mind.
Scientific idolatry- applying the above to scientific principles:
Today the average person-including a good many scientists-treat tye ideas, concepts, and theories, of science in excactly the same way the ancients treated their golden calves. We take quarks, black holes, and the big bang theory to be objective elements in an authoratative desciption of an external, indepedent reality. We forget or sepress the fact these elements areideas that came originally from the human mind, as do all the arguements we use to justify them. All tue scientific concepts and theories, together with tye whole system and rationale if the so-called scientific method, clearly originated in the human mind. The complex, extensive, detailed, abd astonishing picture of the natural world that we call science is the product of human thought, insigight, and genius. It neither external , nor independent, nor final, nor even provable. Tye whole structure and content of science, including its fabled emperical method, is like vast intricate games whose rules, playing board, and pieces were all created by human beings fir their use, benefit, amusement, power, and security.
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