How I Deconstructed Science

By Leo Gura - October 20, 2026

How did I originally deconstruct science? Where did the idea for it come from?

Here’s how it happened. This is the genealogy of it for me:

In high school I was an atheist arguing with Christians about God when I saw that they were not interested in questioning their own beliefs but just rationalizing them. So I said that’s obviously wrong. But then when I looked at my own atheist arguments against God, I realized that I was also rationalizing. I saw my own double-standards. If it’s wrong for Christians to do it, it must be wrong for everyone to do it. And so I realized that every perspective, every worldview, behaves in fundamentally the same way as Christianity. I saw that the question-begging present in Christianity is present in every ideology, every philosophy, every worldview, including science. This made me realize that if Christians could delude themselves so badly with Christianity, scientists could delude themselves with science. Not because science is a religion. Science is not a religion. I am not saying that. I am saying something more threatening. Science is question-begging and does not care to examine that because it assumes it can’t be that wrong. But that’s exactly what Christianity does. Christianity refuses to look at its own question-begging. But so does everyone.

The key insight is that the problems of Christianity have nothing to do with the content of Christian beliefs. It doesn’t matter if you believe in angels, or unicorns, or quarks. The problem is deep and structural. It is a structural problem of Mind at large. The problem isn’t even just epistemic, it is ontological because Mind has nothing but itself to ground itself in. You can’t escape this problem just by being scientific. But every scientist thinks he can escape it by being more scientific. This was my fundamental disagreement with science. I saw that every scientist was wrong on this point because they weren’t taking epistemology seriously. I saw this very early, before I turned 20 years old, but I did not have the words and skill to articulate it as clearly as I can now. I just knew there was something deeply true there.

In arguing with Christians I realized that the stupidity of Christians is not unique to Christianity or to religion but inherent to the human mind. This is the essence of true philosophy and why science cannot replace philosophy. It is ironic that the reason I found God was because at 17 years old I realized that if Christians can be that stupid, so could everyone else, including me. The Christian was my mirror to see my own double-standards and question-begging. Whenever you see someone being really stupid, rather than laugh or criticize, stop and reflect on how your mind uses the same bag of tricks. Philosophy is not rocket science, it is about being a stickler on proper fundamentals.

It is valuable to study the genealogy of your own ideas, to see where they came from and what motivated them. But you have to be accurate and honest about it, otherwise your self-deception will deepen. The mind will bullshit itself about why it holds the view it holds because it holds it as true.

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