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The Magician’s Twin: C. S. Lewis on Science, Scientism, and Society is unavailable, but you can change that!

Beloved for his Narnian tales for children and his books of Christian apologetics for adults, best-selling author C. S. Lewis also was a prophetic critic of the growing power of scientism in modern society, the misguided effort to apply science to areas outside its proper bounds. In this wide-ranging book of essays, contemporary writers probe Lewis’ warnings about the dehumanizing impact of...

uncritically by fellow researchers and social scientists for decades despite the fact that his wildly unrepresentative samples and coercive interview techniques made his research little more than junk science.48 If scientists themselves could demonstrate such stunning bouts of credulity about scientific claims, members of the general public were even more susceptible to the disease according to Lewis. In an age of science and technology, Lewis knew that ordinary citizens must increasingly look to
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