“There are many other important beliefs, secular as well as religious, which are justified and rational, but not scientific, and therefore marginalized by scientism,” Hutchinson ...

This is because scientism focuses on natural explanations rather than stories about a god creating many kinds all at once (which is one way some religious groups say life became diverse).

But, when non-scientific claims cloak themselves in scientific authority, or science claims to reach beyond the limits imposed by its own methodology, you have scientism. And the left falls for it.

That’s a pretty nice statement of what Rod dubs “scientism.” Religious, ethical, and political philosophy can’t be disconnected entirely from reflection on nature, and philosophical reflec ...

A widely considered master narrative of the past century is of a steady disenchantment of the Judeo-Christian Platonic world and the rise of a soulless scientism of Aristotelian causality. The story ...