Word: scientism
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...religion as a legitimate area of inquiry were aroused, as was the specter of sinister creationists and out-of-the-closet Jesuits. It was bad enough to have a large and visible chapel here, but to give faith and reason a place in a curriculum long ceded to scientism seemed to be just too much. The reformers backed off, the rubric was removed, and the fears of legitimizing piety were put to rest, at least for a while...
Roman Catholicism's Christoph Cardinal Schnborn has dubbed the most fervent of faith-challenging scientists followers of "scientism" or "evolutionism," since they hope science, beyond being a measure, can replace religion as a worldview and a touchstone. It is not an epithet that fits everyone wielding a test tube. But a growing proportion of the profession is experiencing what one major researcher calls "unprecedented outrage" at perceived insults to research and rationality, ranging from the alleged influence of the Christian right on Bush Administration science policy to the fanatic faith of the 9/11 terrorists to intelligent design's ongoing...
...creation of “The Market and Society” component is quite unnecessary. It would represent the undue prioritization of the discipline of economics within a general education. Worse, its inclusion is symptomatic of a kind of a vulgar pseudo-scientism that is unfortunately all too common to the discipline’s defenders...
...evolution, the debate over Darwin may arise in the Church's ongoing battle on bioethics. In a speech last week at a Catholic conference in Rimini, Italy - a sort of public warmup for the high-stakes private lecture he will give at Castel Gandolfo - Sch?nborn condemned what he called "scientism," or the failure of those in the scientific community to recognize that their findings can't provide all the answers...