exists. Whenever one approach to knowledge is set up as the only way to know, things tend to fall apart. We see this problem manifested in the new “isms” that soon developed out of the Enlightenment, including scientism, romanticism, dialectical idealism, existentialism, transcendentalism, nihilism, postmodernism and secular humanism. Scientism is the belief that the only way to know anything is through the “scientific method,” a process of inquiry based on empirical evidence and specific principles