Science or Scientism?

The Rev. Sensing spots an article by Michael Polyani, and gives his take on the great science vs. religion debate:

we have a culture that is scientistic as well as scientific.

Scientism is faith in science. As the dominant world view of of the

West, it is considered self-validating. Scientism makes two major

claims, neither of which, however, are testable using the scientific

method:

(1) only science reveals the Real and only science can discover truth;

(2) scientific knowledge of reality is exhaustive, not inherently limited, is holistic and sees reality as reality really is.

Read the whole thing at Winds of Change.