This article predates the current owners of Science Blog. It has not been reviewed under the current editorial process and is kept as part of the archive. I have an essay in Nature this week on how ...

The Great Dome at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology or “MIT,” the small, obscurantist Bible college where Ian Hutchinson teaches. (Wikimedia Commons public domain photograph) I continue here ...

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 ...

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, ...

Well-known online atheist Bob Seidensticker once wrote that “science is the only discipline that tells us new things about reality.” I replied: “Like many atheists, he takes the epistemologically ...

In this episode, Dr. Stacy Trasancos will discuss the difference between science and what some have dubbed “scientism,” and why it even matters. Dr. Trasancos brings with her discussions advanced ...

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 ...

Pregnant Ten-Year-Old Girls Cannot Be a Political Talking Point It’s Time for a Reset in U.S.-Israel Relations AI’s Great Big ‘Dumbening’ Effect Xi’s Invitation to American Students Comes with ...

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 ...

Early in the Cold War era, "social sciences were criticized for not being really scientific—for being ideological and political in ways that may seem to have been disguised as science," says Mark ...

Should Ilhan Omar Be Denaturalized? Audio By Carbonatix Jonah and Yuval: Hey thanks. At the risk of looking a gift horse in the mouth, though, I’m going to take mild exception to Jonah’s charge that I ...