“Scientism” … is the belief that the scientific approach to truth is the only reliable one and that the realities science turns up are the only true realities.
The fallacy in scientism, (Huston) Smith (author of The Way Things Are) finds, comes from the fact that the crux of the scientific method is the controlled experiment. …
Science is ideal for finding the structure of the world, but it can’t find the reality of another world, which religion deals with. Science can’t discover values, purposes and meanings. It can deal only with quantities, not qualities.
—Barbara Wendland
Connections, February