“The hard sciences intrinsically demand precise measurement…2+2=4 regardless of one’s ethnicity, gender, or claims of victimization…On the other hand, the liberal arts by their very nebulousness are easily exploited by academic charlatans and quacks.”

Hard science is the process of determining the behavior of the material universe through observation, controlled testing, and the application of human reason. The hard sciences, such as mathematics, chemistry, physics, engineering, astronomy and biology, have as their subjects the organic and inorganic elements of nature – including the observable and testable functions of life it’s self. It is difficult to fudge hard science because the untruth of fudged hard science can be demonstrated by repetition of the original observation and testing, and proven false.

The soft sciences of psychology, sociology, political “science”, women’s studies, cross-cultural studies, etc., etc., etc. differ from the hard sciences in that the subject is the human being. The human being can only be studied in the same way as the objects of hard science if the human being is only a material object, say like a lab mouse, or a tree, or a mineral. For the Atheist and Marxist this is not a problem, but for the religious it is – since man is understood to have a supernatural component. For the religious it is understood that man is made in the image of God, and that man therefore has an eternal soul. Since the soul of man can’t be directly observed or tested as in the hard sciences, there can be no hard science in the study of the complete man – man the animal, but whose soul is made in the image of God. Soft science will always be soft and incomplete if man has a soul; and the teachers and practitioners of soft science will come to incomplete or erroneous conclusions when man is viewed as simply a thing or object for observation.

Igor Shafarevich, a brilliant Russian mathematician, came to this conclusion in his book The Socialist Phenomenon. Here is an excerpt regarding the soft “scientific” Socialist/Marxist understanding of man:

“Individuals correspond to the elemental particles of matter, which must be identical… As for Marxism, one thinks of an analogy with another physical theory. This is the kinetic theory of gases, according to which a gas is the aggregate of molecules that come into collision, with the result of each collision determined by the laws of mechanics. A very great number of molecules
transform the statistical laws of their collision into the general laws of the physics of gases. The only form of social contact of the producers of goods in capitalist society is exchange (just as for gas molecules the only form of interaction is collision). The interaction of a great number of producers engenders that “social production” which, in its turn, determines their political, legal and religious notions, and the “social, political and spiritual processes of life in general.”

This is the end result of soft science: Marxist Socialism.