Reflection on Worldview: Exploring Christian Ethics and Scientism

This assignment is a student's reflection on worldview, addressing key questions from a Christian perspective. The reflection begins with an exploration of Christian ethics and spirituality, contrasting them with postmodern relativism, particularly within healthcare. It then defines scientism and presents two arguments against it. The core of the assignment involves answering worldview questions: What is ultimate reality? What is the nature of the universe? What is a human being? What is knowledge? What is the basis of ethics? What is the purpose of existence? Each question is answered from the student's personal perspective, demonstrating an understanding of the concepts and providing a thoughtful analysis of their beliefs. The student references relevant sources to support their arguments and conclusions.

Running Head: REFLECTION ON WORLDVIEW
Reflection on worldview
Name of the Student
Name of the University
Author’s Note:
Table of Contents

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Response to Question 1..........................................................................................................................2
Response to Question 2..........................................................................................................................3
Response to Question 3a........................................................................................................................3
Response to Question 3b........................................................................................................................4
Response to Question 3c........................................................................................................................4
Response to Question 3d........................................................................................................................5
Response to Question 3e........................................................................................................................5
Response to Question 3f.........................................................................................................................5
References..............................................................................................................................................7

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Response to Question 1
Adhering to the Biblical perspective, a true Christian believes in the existence of God
in the form of the Holy Trinity that is as an amalgamation of the Father, the son and the Holy
Spirit. The Christian ethics dictates that God is the creator and sustainer of all that we see and
exists on the face of the earth. Though the Holy Trinity is there God is not limited to these
forms, He is considered to be formless and omnipresent and is present in ways which the
human mind cannot comprehend. The ethics of the Christian spirituality dictates that though
science is our best option for discovering and gathering information about the world we live
in, but research is also solely dependent on the discretion of God and happens with His will.
The profession of healthcare is considered to be one of the most respectable fields as
they were treated as Gods, healers of the pained. The Christian ethics of healthcare shows
that the patient and doctor or nurse’s relationship cannot be taken as between inanimate
object (Nissen, Gildberg & Hvidt, 2018). It has to be one of purity as the spirituality shows
that each human life is created as God’s own image. This is the direct reflection of the
thought that there is but one truth, and that cannot be denied by anyone. The truth learnt with
the help of science discoveries are the truth which God wants the humankind to know, it is
discovered and not produced.
While the postmodern relativism stands in direct contrast to this view of ultimate
truth, the belief of relativism shows that human beings are the creator of their own truth, and
that truth is subjective for it is invented by individuals. The theory of relativism proposes that
Truth cannot be universal for it has everything to do with the personal view of an individual.

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Response to Question 2
Scientism, as a field of belief, can be regarded to have emerged from the time of
Scientific Revolution in the early seventeenth century in Europe. Before this, the process of
learning depended on the careful scrutiny of older and ancient texts and was changed by the
intentional efforts of the like of Galileo Galilei, Bacon and Descartes. They adopted the
learning process, which included the scrutiny of nature and was considered to be directly
against the Christian concept of the Truth. Thus, scientism can be taken as the system of
belief where the happening around us are explained with the help of science that is logic and
reason keeping aside the ancient beliefs (Puca, 2018). Scientism is different from another ism
in the way that they follow some kind of traditional information which has been passed down
through generations. It is completely founded on the view that knowledge can only be
attained through the understanding of the working of science.
There are various arguments against the sole dependability of the knowledge of
science, but there are a few major arguments which depict the basic differences. The first one
is the most important belief of the Christian perception about the existence of God and His
control over life and death. The omnipresent nature of God renders it to be supernatural
which is the complete opposite of the scientism belief of accepting the existence of anything
if and only if it can be seen and touched in order to be tested. As God’s powers cannot be
tested and established, it is negated by scientism (Puca, 2018). The other argument is on the
existence of life after death, and there has been a number of critics against it as the process of
reincarnation has been supported by some scientists as well. However, due to the lack of
enough data and evidence, scientism does not support the belief of reincarnation or life after
death (Peels, 2018).

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Response to Question 3a
The ultimate reality refers to the belief that there exist a true state of things which is
above all forms of physical dimensions and the physical state of things in which we want
them to exist. Ultimate reality cannot be deemed as a contemporary expression but is an old
one which has been modified to the understanding of the civilized human race (Kirilyuk,
2017). Ultimate reality, in my perspective, is the acceptance of the existence of God, for He is
omnipresent and shows us things how they actually exist rather than hiw they are. This leads
to the question of acceptance of the existence of God, which is prevalent in the worldview
question of religion.
Response to Question 3b
The nature of the Universe for me emerges from the concept of ultimate reality which,
according to the worldview, is universal for most religion. However, according to physicists
studying the universe also is amazed by the process of the creation of the universe for each
entity out there is functioning on its own without interfering with the work of other. This can
be seen as an example of divine intervention and established the truth that human beings are
the supreme creation of even supreme power (Bourne, Crossfield & Nicholas, 2017). The
nature of the universe when tried to be studied with the help of string theory could be
completed for the working of the particles in more than four dimensions has not yet been
discovered and apprehended by our mind.
Response to Question 3c
The question of a definition of being a human can be answered in two ways, one that
adheres to the cotemporary worldview and the other according to scientism. According to
worldview, human beings are the supreme creation of God and has been given the ability to
think and evolve, which further let us evolve by learning to adapt to the changing condition.

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Scientism shows us as the product of the evolution, which showed us learning to form
language to communicate our thinking, but it has been unable to prove the origin of man
(Rutherford, 2017). In the Christian worldview, the human race was doomed to suffering
owing to the Original sin of consuming the Forbidden fruit which angered God for He gave
us the capability to think.
Response to Question 3d
In the general sense, knowledge for me is the acquired information stored by us for
further use. The source of that information is, however, the pivotal part of the question. This
is again based on the concept of human being and their existence. The source of knowledge,
in my opinion, is the presence of the human mind. If we follow this, then all knowledge
stored in us is the working of our mind which knows what to access at a given point of time.
The theory of knowledge, epistemology also opens up the option of empiricism in attaining
knowledge; it is based on the experience that is gained by the human being in their lifetime
(Rutherford, 2017). This school of thought renders our sensory system responsible for the
knowledge stored in us.
Response to Question 3e
Ethics can be defined as the scale of measuring the rights and wrongs in the society
basing it on the moral teachings of the religion. The ethical scale also tends to be different for
each one of us, which depends on the kind of society one grows up in and form our views
(Rutherford, 2017). The workings of the society are also based on ethics, and its presence has
also become omnipresent for unless we try to identify it, it is hard for us to recognize one
now. The professional ethics is always present at the back of our mind, which tugs at
conscience, making us adhere to it.

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Response to Question 3f
The purpose of existence, according to the religious worldview is a concept which
emerges from the Christian concept of spirituality for me. The purpose of our existence for
me is to search and find the reason or the purpose of our creation. The purpose of existence in
the ethical term of the word is to fulfill the objectives of existence that is to be kind and serve
in the ways of God according to the commandments. Everyone is created to serve a purpose,
so the meaning for us of our existence to find it and fulfill the will of God.

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References
Bourne, P. A., Crossfield, D., & Nicholas, V. (2017). A Christian approach to
philosophy. International Journal of Humanities & Social Science: Insights &
Transformations [ISSN: 2581-3587 (online)], 2(1).
Kirilyuk, A. P. (2017). Theory of Everything, Ultimate Reality and the End of Humanity:
Extended Sustainability by the Universal Science of Complexity.
Nissen, R. D., Gildberg, F. A., & Hvidt, N. C. (2018). Psychiatry, a secular discipline in a
postsecular world? A review. Religions, 9(1), 32.
Peels, R. (2018). The fundamental argument against scientism. Science Unlimited? The
Challenges of Scientism, 165-184.
Puca, A. (2018). Scientism and Post-Truth. Journal of the British Association for the Study of
Religion (JBASR), 20, 83-99.
Rutherford, J. A. (2017). APPENDIX 1: THE CHRISTIAN WORLDVIEW.