The Critique of Foundationalist Empiricism as the “Religion of Empiricism” in Contemporary Scientistic Dogmas In discussions of molecular biology, abiogenesis, and the boundaries of scientific explanation, a deeper epistemological pathology reveals itself: foundationalist empiricism, elevated to the status of a de facto religion within scientistic paradigms. This analysis draws upon Lyndon LaRouche’s exposure of Newtonian reductionism, Quine’s demolition of empiricism’s dogmas, and a hyperfoundational approach emphasizing creative reason, apophatic insight, and the paradoxological trap. Far from neutral methodology, this framework constrains inquiry, smuggles metaphysics, and aligns with market-driven power structures that reduce life to quantifiable commodities.

Market and profiteering logics exacerbate the dogma. Institutional science, shaped by funding, publications, and “breakthrough” narratives, prioritizes reductionist alignments. Challenges from design, fine-tuning, consciousness (the hard problem), or biblical typology are pathologized. This echoes LaRouche’s warning: empiricism serves anti-human structures, resisting upward creative development. In family and social domains, it justifies defamilialization via “expert” interventions, reducing children to data points in social engineering rather than sovereign souls under transcendental parenting. Biblical exegesis counters this: Genesis as integrative revelation, Logos (John 1) as foundational ordering principle, resurrection as hyperfoundational synthesis beyond empirical closure. Faith bridges knowing (Hebrews 11), integrating exformational/kinesthetic insight with rigorous observation. Historical lineage—from Pomponazzi and Venetian Zorzi to British empiricists—served schismatic and oligarchical interests, attacking Cusa’s docta ignorantia. Modern scientism perpetuates this, fostering pathocracy and targeting divergent families.