Comments on: Global Warming: Faith, Reason and the Temple Cult of Scientism

By: The ‘Ick Factor’ : The Other McCain

The ‘Ick Factor’ : The Other McCain — Mon, 13 Dec 2010 15:01:05 +0000

[...] Temple Cult of Scientism, as I’ve called it, means that all values are subject to debunking, if some influential group of intellectuals decides they need debunking:The federally-mandated triumph of secularism in public education — Engel v. Vitale, Abington [...]

By: James Manzi Will Regret This But Once, and That Will Be Continuously : The Other McCain

Thu, 22 Apr 2010 03:06:06 +0000

[...] “men of untaught feelings” of whom Edmund Burke spoke, and have never subscribed to the Temple Cult of Scientism.Furthermore, I have a stubborn resistance to bandwagon arguments cloaked in the trappings of [...]

By: Evolution, Anthropogenic Global Warming and Other Non-Falsifiable Theories : The Other McCain

Fri, 12 Feb 2010 18:39:50 +0000

[...] theory.This disposition tends to lead toward a pseudo-religious faith that I have called “The Temple Cult of Scientism,” which grants Science an unquestionable influence far beyond the laboratory and the [...]