An ID view of scientism (Introduction)

by xeno6696 , Sonoran Desert, Friday, January 15, 2010, 02:08 (5223 days ago) @ David Turell

Scientism as defined by a scientist: Massimo Pigliucci tackles scientism headlong in his book "Denying Evolution." -Scientism is the belief that science will solve all of man's problems. He goes to a great length of covering different kinds of scientism, none of which are covered by the author cited here. -What the ID advocate is doing is phrasing an extreme faith of scientific materialism as scientism. It's a veiled strawman. -Where I have difficulty of this is in terms of the reliability question. Reliability of a system of gaining knowledge is in my opinion, the utmost in important criterion in using it. Name one that's demonstrably more reliable. -If you can't, then that means science is the best. If science is the best, than I don't know a better argument for what would be more valid, knowledge gained from an unreliable system, or knowledge gained from science? -Scientism as espoused by the author in my argument actually seems more reasonable. Scientism as espoused by Pigliucci, is actually a more useful explanation, and better describes people such as Dawkins, because when viewed in terms of reliability, science IS king.

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