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Scientism and Secularism: Learning to Respond to a Dangerous Ideology

Science means simply the aggregate of all the recipes that are always successful. All the rest is literature.”

— Paul Valéry

I happen to believe our science is not scientific enough. It’s too dogmatic. I happen to believe our reason is not reasonable enough, it’s too dogmatic — and it’s dogma that’s always the problem. We need science, we need reason, but we also need to see that they can’t answer all our questions. Love is very real. Anyone who’s experienced it knows th... See more

Iain McGilchrist • Left-brain thinking will destroy civilisation

This, then, is what I mean by Scientism. It is not merely the misapplication of techniques such as quantification to questions where numbers have nothing to say; not merely the confusion of the material and social realms of human experience; not merely the claim of social researchers to be applying the aims and procedures of natural science to the

Neil Postman • Technopoly

science (the systematic, rational examination of phenomena) and scientism (the refusal to consider anything other than natural causes).

J. Warner Wallace • Cold-Case Christianity: A Homicide Detective Investigates the Claims of the Gospels

nowhere.” It is the conviction that in order to describe the world accurately and empirically, we must put aside res cogitans—the subjective, immediate way in which we experience the world in our minds—and limit ourselves to res extensa, the objective, mathematical language of physical facts. Without these distinctions, it’s difficult to imagine th