In yesterday’s Neil deGrasse Tyson discussion over scientism, more than a few readers denied that scientism was anything other than a right-wing culture warrior concept to denigrate science that did ...

Science is good but scientism isn’t. Science looks at the cosmos objectively, indeed scientifically. Scientism doesn’t. Science, in the broadest sense of the word, derived from the Latin scientia, ...

Is science the only legitimate form of rational inquiry? The evolutionary biologist and popular atheist Richard Dawkins thinks so. In a 2013 debate with Rowan Williams, the former Archbishop of ...

Can you be a strident defender of science and still be suspicious of the way it is appropriated within culture? Can you be passionate about the practice and promise of science, yet still remain ...

In an earlier Patheos column, I recommended that the public theologian construct a worldview that includes a theology of nature. And by ‘nature’ I meant the world as seen through microscopes and ...

This week, a bit of news that escaped the notice of many was a dust-up between Lila Rose and Dr. Phil. The topic? The definition of science and the definition of life. The exchange went something like ...

It’s easy to judge someone else’s worldview, but it’s much harder to recognise that we even have a worldview. We appreciate how pagan societies might see spirits in nature, or how monotheists see God ...

Leon Wieseltier opens up on Steven Pinker’s scientism (which is not the same thing as science, but rather the ideology of science). Excerpts: They claim that science is under attack, and from two ...

Is science really overstepping its bounds? In at least one high-profile case, the answer is clearly yes Science: has it gone too far? This sounds like one of those vox-pop questions from The Day Today ...

When we recite the Creed each Sunday and say, “I believe in one, holy, catholic and apostolic Church,” most of us don’t imagine that it has much to do with our everyday lives. Stop! Every aspect of ...