The Corrupting Influence of Scientism

Perhaps the greatest leap of blind, uncritical and unquestioning faith that I see among well-educated people today is something called scientism. Scientism is the belief that science is the best and only trustworthy method to discover truth. Supernatural explanations are a priori ruled out. The result is atheism dressed up as science.

There are two major problems.

First, a distinguished philosopher of science, Philip Kitcher, argues that the notion of a scientific "theory of everything" is a...