A yawning chasm

Deterministic thinking eats away at the common reason: scientific thinking starts by scouring away superstitions and falsehoods, but then scientistic thinking, its appetite having grown after continual eating unrestrained by philosophical common sense, ends by devouring truths as well, leaving only the bones and orts of physical reality, with subject and object staring at each other across a yawning faithless chasm.—Michael Aeschliman, The Restitution of Man: C. S. Lewis and the Case against Scientism, 44