In 750-1,000 words, answer each of the worldview questions according to your own personal perspective and worldview: What is ultimate reality? What is the nature of the universe? What is a human being? What is knowledge? What is your basis of ethics? What is the purpose of your existence?

In 750-1,000 words, answer each of the worldview questions according to your own personal perspective and worldview: What is ultimate reality? What is the nature of the universe? What is a human being? What is knowledge? What is your basis of ethics? What is the purpose of your existence?

Scientism and Arguments Against It

The concept of scientism remains controversial, not just in healthcare but also in different aspects and spheres of life. At its core, scientism advances the view that science is the only objective means through one can determine the truth (Moreland, 2018). Scientism as a philosophy advances that only hard sciences like chemistry, astronomy, and physics as well as biology can offer genuine knowledge about reality. The implication is that scientific knowledge is superior to all what we may know from other disciplines (Pfeiffer, 2018). Therefore, ethics, religions and spirituality can only be accepted if they are understood to be inherently subjective and considered as private affairs of opinions.

Scientism opposes the claim that ethical and religious conclusions are just as factual as science. Proponents of scientism advance that these can only be affirmed as scientific truths, like the others, through inquiry, investigation and scientific proofs based on experimental observations. Without these proofs and experiments, these truths are a sign of bigotry and intolerance. The implication is that scientism does not give room to opinions and statements that do not have any scientific inquiry to demonstrate the truth about such situations.

However, two critical arguments against scientism arise based on scholarly research. Firstly, Moreland (2018) asserts that scientism may be a self-refuting theory or perspective as it does not generate all answers for different situations of human living and activities. For instance, what is the scientific proof of good morals and what needs to happen? Imperatively, scientism fails to answer fundamental questions about the existence and happening of different situations like miracles in life. Scientism can only provider answers to logical questions and not those based on morals like behavior and ethical values. Secondly, the free will of a human person is a situation that is beyond scientism as it cannot explain. For instance, science on aspects like neurology and neurosurgery have failed to account for the physiology behind free will, morality, and right and good functions of the human brain.

Personal Perspective and Worldview on

a). Ultimate Reality

My worldview is based on Christianity and the need to serve individuals selflessly with sacrificial love as demonstrated by Jesus Christ. Further, my perspective in life is that nature rewards good actions and showing love for others as a natural way that God purposed for humanity. The idea of ultimate reality revolves around the concept of God as the creator and source of life and the universe (Pfeiffer, 2018). I believe that human’s ultimate reality is the perspective that all are created in God’s image and should show love as the most important thing in one’s life. Individual’s actions in life should always consider the overall implications that such decisions have in relation to ultimate aspect that gives existence to human beings and life (Cristiano, 2020). Spirituality allows one to understand and experience the ultimate reality as beyond the physical existence of human beings and other living things on earth.

b). The Nature of the Universe

Nature entails the natural and environment perception of earth and existing things; both living and non-living. The universe entails all space and times as well as their contents like planets and galaxies and other kinds of matter and energy. The implication is that I consider universe beyond the physical nature yet it is an essential starting point but incorporate life and how individuals perceive it in their daily activities. From my Christian worldview and perspective, at the center of the Universe is God the creator who established all forms of life and other aspects of human living (Domingo-Osle & Domingo, 2020). Therefore, the conception of what we are and our purpose in the world constitute critical components of the term universe. Healthcare providers should not consider universe as the physical conditions alone but the behavioral aspects that emanate from human beings. The universe a concept implores one to seek meaning beyond the obvious and develop a critical approach to such situations.

c). Human Being

My Christian worldview is categorical that human beings are created in the image of God based on the concept of “Imago Dei.” The creation of human beings in God’s image is not physical and based on our appearance since God is not both man and woman but distinct in spiritual helm with authority and power beyond individuals’ comprehension (Boa, 2020). While part of God’s creation, a human being is distinct and only creature that shares in procreation with Him and given power to do more than other creation