Dean Koontz on scientism

Tuesday, February 2. 2010

I read. A lot. I have been known to average a novel a day. What slows me down is a lack of good books to read. Thank goodness for Dean Koontz who is quickly becoming one of my favorites. His recent works are great. I began with the gruesome but thought provoking The Taking, continued on to the dark, but wholly funny and entertaining, Life Expectancy and then on to the Odd Thomas series. Now I am hooked.

Your Heart Belongs to Me, one of his most recent, captured the creepy love affair with death that is the assisted suicide movement like no other fiction book I have ever read.

Yesterday , I started his Frankenstein trilogy which is about transhumanism, the movement to genetically enhance mankind to be better than human in intelligence, strength or beauty. I will let you know how it is. I was immediately struck by the dedication which had so much truth in it I just had to share it:

This trilogy is dedicated to the late Mr. Lewis, who long ago realized that science was being politicized, that its primary goal was changing from knowledge to power, that it was also becoming scientism, and that in the ism is the end of humanity.

The Mr. Lewis is of course C.S. Lewis. I won't try to elaborate on Koontz's dedication because I think it reflects the dangers of turning science into a religion perfectly.

Posted by Rebecca Taylor in Science and Religion at 11:15 | Comments (3) | Trackbacks (0)

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Mr. Koontz is a Catholic and he has talked about scientism before and his faith.

http://catholicexchange.com/2009/08/01/120925/

#1 Jeffrey L Miller (Homepage) on 2010-02-02 15:54 (Reply)

That he is Mr. Jester!

(I must have forgotten to mention it!) And it shows up in his recent books for those of us who know what to look for. The Catholicism is strong enough to make a statement without hitting the reader over the head with doctrine.

#1.1 Rebecca Taylor on 2010-02-02 16:03 (Reply)

Wow, I thought he was a one trick pony with his horror novels that I had read back in my darker, high school days. He might deserve another look-see these days! Thanks for the recommendation!

#2 laura (Homepage) on 2010-02-03 18:55 (Reply)

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