Category: Culture & Ethics
New Website Explores C.S. Lewis’s Thoughts on Science & Scientism
“By the 1940s and 50s, Lewis became more vocal about the looming dangers of what he called ‘scientocracy,’ the effort to hand over the reigns of cultural and political power to an elite group of experts claiming to speak in the name of science.”
Family Size in Affluent Cultures: Another Failed Prediction of Darwinian Theory
In Seattle, instead of children, people have dogs.
Hitler, Evolution and the Historical Context
Darwinian theory allowed a framework and easy fit into which Hitler’s Nazis could cast their racial program as both scientific and even inexorable.
Did Hitler Use the Term “Evolution” in Mein Kampf?
Some critics of my scholarship have tried to argue that Hitler did not believe in human evolution at all.
“Scientists Say”: We Need Science to Affirm Empathy
William Deresiwicz at the The American Scholar takes on our friends at the New York Times for another example of scientism.