Tag: scientism
Martin Luther King’s Powerful Critique of Scientific Racism, Scientific Materialism
Dr. King was critical of the misuse of science to promote racial discrimination, and he spoke against the idea that humans are the products of a blind process.
Richard Weikart: The Dark Side of Science
March for science, you say? Follow the science? Listen to the scientists? Perhaps first ask “What science?” and “What scientists?”
Watch: How C. S. Lewis Predicted the Rise of “Scientocracy”
“I dread government in the name of science,” C. S. Lewis wrote in 1958. “That is how tyrannies come in.”
The Big Myth: Big Universe Is a Problem for Religion
Self-appointed spokesmen for science often use the enormous size of the cosmos, with its billions of galaxies, as a club to beat up Christianity.
“Ultracrepidarianism” — A Helpful New Word for a Problem in Science and Elsewhere
It alludes to an adage with roots in ancient Greece, “Let the cobbler not judge above the sandal.” That is, mind your own business.