Tag: scientism
Martin Luther King’s Powerful Critique of Scientific Racism, Scientific Materialism
I have no idea what King would have thought of the modern theory of intelligent design, but many of the ideas he expressed are certainly friendly to ID.
Shaw, Scientism, and Darwinism
George Bernard Shaw’s positive criterion by which to measure and ridicule folly and vice was fatally ambiguous, eclectic, and inconstant.
Science as Oracle — “Where It Gets Weird”
The ancients had their oracles, people claiming to speak in the name of the gods — this, by divination.
C. S. Lewis Foresaw Scientism’s Totalitarian Potential
According to Lewis, science steps dangerously outside its bounds when it assumes it has all knowledge, especially moral knowledge.
C. S. Lewis Criticized Scientism, Not Science
Scientism is the idea that science is the ultimate path to knowledge and wisdom — the only sure path — and that the spiritual realm is a mirage.