(March 2, 2015 at 2:38 pm)FatAndFaithless Wrote: (Also, science operates under methodological naturalism, not an assertion iof philosophical naturalism. Science doesn't start with YG's strawman assertion of "Only naturalism exists", it starts from the premise of "Naturalism is the set of tools that has been shown to work innumberable times before, so until there is something outside of naturalism that can be shown to work, there is no reason to employ or assume the existence of anything supernatural".)
It's not really surprising that those who complain so much of 'scientism' don't know a damn thing about how science works.
To be honest, I don't think most of them could tell the difference between the two assertions.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell