Tag: scientism
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.
Science Uprising — “Big Bang: Something from Nothing?”
At lot hangs in the balance with the Big Bang, including the meaning of our lives.
Sunday with the Devil’s Acolyte — Thomas Henry Huxley
Although the designation of Huxley as Darwin’s “bulldog” is well known, acolyte is a more appropriate term and here’s why.