Discovery Institute - Bioethics - Articles/News - Jarring Sects: Science, properly understood, is a method for gaining and applying knowledge about the workings of the physical and natural worlds. Science is apolitical. It is also amoral. Its purview is the three-dimensional universe and its elements, which scientists can observe, identify, measure, and test.
Scientism is almost the mirror opposite: Where science is objective, scientism is subjective. Science is about gaining information. Scientism is about proselytizing for a belief. Science is a means. Scientism is an end. Where science sticks to facts and testing hypotheses, scientism purports to convey Truth.
Orthodox religion is loathed by scientism's adherents precisely because believers energetically promote the sanctity of human life as the paramount value in society. This means that there are limits, a concept that is anathema to scientism's adherents.
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