Philosopher Gabriel Marcel often describes a mystery as a “problem that encroaches on its own data” (Marcel 1995, p. 19). Such a “problem” is, in fact, meta-problematic; it is a question in which the identity of the questioner becomes an issue itself—where, in fact, the questioner is involved in the question he or she is asking. Empirical science cannot answer such questions, there must be another way of answering. But scientism seeks to claim that any questions science can’t answer are invalid.
Proverbs 8
27 When He prepared the heavens, I was there, When He drew a circle on the face of the deep,
Nelson, Thomas. Holy Bible, New King James Version (NKJV) (p. 623). Thomas Nelson. Kindle Edition.
“The theme of this book is that a universe comes into being when a space is severed or taken apart.”
Spencer-Brown, George. The Laws of Form, page xxii.
“But scientism seeks to claim that any questions science can’t answer are invalid.”
They limit their scope of research to the material world - the world of our senses, and arrogantly (and maybe ignorantly) insist that nothing else exists.
Imagine what the world of an amoeba must be like. An amoeba has no awareness of us humans as huge, powerful, intelligent beings able to create things and with the power of life and death over millions of amoebas. To their senses we don’t exist, but obviously we do.
So perhaps we humans are like amoebas to something out there much bigger, powerful and intelligent than we are.