Philosophy Wars continued:

On the Religion of Scientism

Recently, believers in the religion of Scientism have become increasingly militant.  Christians, though seldom able, like Jesus, to love their enemy, might at least try, like Don Vito Corleone, to know their enemy.

"Examples are the stained-glass
windows of knowledge." --Nabokov

Steven Pinker at The New York Times,
review of a new book by Natalie Angier,
a priestess of Scientism,
online today but dated May 27, 2007

Jesse Tisch at JBooks.com,
interview with Angier, undated, 2007

Harvey Blume at The Boston Globe,
interview with Angier, May 13, 2007

Marcela Valdes at Publishers Weekly,
interview with Angier, March 5, 2007

Angier at The New York Times,
"Confessions of a Lonely Atheist,"
Jan. 14, 2001

Angier at The American Scholar,
"My God Problem," Spring 2004

For other recent background,
see the May 21 New Yorker.