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.