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Melanie Phillips Takes a Wrong Turn on 'Intelligent Design' Creationism

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus5/03/2009 2:30:37 pm PDT

Ms Phillips has history:

Intolerance against religion (2002)

But evolution is not a fact. It is a theory with holes in it. What Emmanuel questions in its religion classes, and may question in its science classes, is scientism, the doctrine that says the only questions worth asking are the ones that science can answer.

The false faith of scientific reason

Such ’scientism’ — as this overreach is termed — goes beyond the ability of science to explain the nature of the world around us and claims to tell us how life began. Yet the assumption that science provides a complete theory of knowledge is itself fundamentally unscientific.