Good points by Erica Carle as usual:

My first and most important instructor was the crazy Frenchman Auguste Comte who lived from 1798 to 1857. Can you believe the United States are in the process of being taken over by a system set up more than a century and one half ago by a long dead Frenchman? If you can’t possibly believe it, you will never know what hit you when you lose whatever freedom is left in our country. After more than 150 years it is still possible to make accurate predictions about group behavior by studying his plan of control.

Comte called the management of groups of people a science, “social science.” But think about this: if there is a true science of managing groups of people, and if it is 100% successful, everyone would live according to the plans of these “social scientists” and no one would be free to make his own decisions.

Social science cannot exist with individual freedom or Constitutional government. We cannot be both free and controlled. It is either social science or freedom. If the management of people is accepted as a science, personal freedom is impossible. Social “scientists” would become the world’s culture designers.

An unflinching belief that science can explain everything about evolution becomes its own ideology

Douglas Todd - April 4, 2009

There are two major obstacles to a rich public discussion on Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution and what it means to all of us.

The most obvious obstacle is religious literalism, which leads to Creationism. It’s the belief the Bible or other ancient sacred texts offer the first and last word on how humans came into existence.

The second major barrier to a rewarding public conversation about the impact of evolution on the way we understand the world is not named nearly as much.

It is “scientism.”

Scientism is the belief that the sciences have no boundaries and will, in the end, be able to explain everything in the universe. Scientism can, like religious literalism, become its own ideology.

The Encyclopedia of Science, Technology and Ethics defines scientism as “an exaggerated trust in the efficacy of natural science to be applied to all areas of investigation (as in philosophy, the social sciences and the humanities).”

Those who unknowingly fall into the trap of scientism act as if hard science is the only way of knowing reality. If something can’t be “proved” through the scientific method, through observable and measurable evidence, they say it’s irrelevant.

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The concept of science as religion is apparently growing. In Berkeley, a new “temple to the religion of science” is soon to open.

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Also see:

The Ascendancy of the Scientific Dictatorship (Part One)

The Global Skinner Box

Cultivating Criminality: The Centrality of Deviance To The Scientific Dictatorship