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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus8/15/2015 10:04:37 pm PDT

Speaking of repeating memes, National Racists Online are pushing this one again:

Planned Parenthood and the Eugenics Movement

And just for good fortune the author throws this in:

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For people of faith, the problem is not science, but scientism: the belief that science can explain every facet of human existence from Nature itself.

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This bugaboo about “scientism” is becoming increasingly dominant among those authors who would like to think of themselves as thinking conservative Christians. Everyone from Biologos to, as seen above, writers in religious right outlets, keep holding up “scientism” as some spectre menacing mankind.

But if you read what they are saying closely, “scientism” is just a synonym for “not believing in magical god”.

It’s just the same old teleological argument re-wrapped in new paper.