QUANTUM THEORY AND THE FICTION OF SECULARITY

Quantum theory is a double-edged sword for secularity and scientism. On one side, quantum theory seems to validate science as the ultimate source of truth, reason, and human progress as it is one of the most successful, coherent, and prolific scientific theories. It is successful in the sense that its empirical verifiability has been consistently demonstrated to high degrees of precision, and it is also highly prolific in the sense that it has led to revolutionary advancements in other fields of science and has brought about important technological innovations which led to the computer age and the information age. Moreover, quantum theory is coherent in the sense that its unified account of reality – of particles and forces—is considered to be one of its greatest achievements.