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Is Scientism a significant threat to science?

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Pressie
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12-10-2012 11:48 PM 		Reply to: Message 6 by Panda
12-07-2012 2:59 PM

Panda writes:
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Ah - I just googled him.
He's a Behe supporter.
That explains how such a long article could contain so little information.
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He's a creationist with an agenda...
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This reminds me of what Daniel Dennett had to say about it:
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when someone puts forward a scientific theory that [religious critics] really don't like, they just try to discredit it as 'scientism'
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