Science vs. ScientISM

Philospher John Silber writes in the New Criterion:

With regard to the literalists and the reductionists, I would say, a plague on both houses.

Read the whole thing.  I said something similar, if less eloquently, some time back.

Tip from John Derbyshire at NRO’s The Corner.

Update (14 November):  Head on over to MathandText,
Jay Damion is working up a head of steam over ID.  I’m not quite
sure where he’s headed yet, but the wind-up is quite interesting.