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  Science Has Become a Religion — And It’s Limiting Us

We often think of science as the antidote to belief. It was supposed to be the light that burned away superstition. And in many ways, it has been. Science gave us medicine, technology, and an ever-expanding understanding of the cosmos, both big and small. But somewhere along the way, science, or rather, the institution built around it, began to resemble the very dogmas it once opposed.

Modern science, at its best, is a method. It is a way of questioning, testing, refining, and revising. But what happens when this method is treated as an ideology? When anything that falls outside its current models is dismissed as fantasy or pseudoscience? We risk turning inquiry into orthodoxy. We stop listening. We stop wondering.

The idea of "objectivity", once a noble pursuit, has now become an untouchable idol. We act as if objectivity is a clean, perfect lens, but the truth is that all data is interpreted by minds soaked in culture, bias, and assumption. The worship of objectivity has become a kind of blind faith. If it's not measurable, if it doesn’t show up on a scan or a spreadsheet, it’s deemed unreal, no matter how deeply it’s felt.

But what if personal experience is just as valid as lab results?

A mother feels her child is in danger before it happens. A person emerges from a near-death experience transformed. Meditation alters not just the brain, but the sense of self. Are these stories meaningless because they don't fit neatly into a formula? Or are they signals, maybe glimpses into aspects of consciousness that science has yet to map?

The most important breakthroughs in history came from those who stepped beyond the known. They challenged what was "proven." If Galileo had accepted the orthodoxy of his time, the stars would still revolve around us. Today, those who question scientific materialism are often treated with the same suspicion once reserved for heretics.

This isn’t an argument against science. It’s a plea to save it from itself.

Real science thrives on mystery, on humility. It says: “We don’t know yet.” Religion says: “We already do.” But when science starts echoing that same certainty, it becomes the very thing it sought to replace.

Maybe it's time we reintroduce the subjective. Maybe we let consciousness, intuition, and experience back into the conversation. Because if we don’t, if we silence everything that doesn’t fit, we might just miss the most important truths of all in our pursuit of knowledge.