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Scientism and Secularism: Learning to Respond to a Dangerous Ideology is unavailable, but you can change that!

Rigid adherence to scientism—as opposed to a healthy respect for science—is all too prevalent in our world today. Rather than leading to a deeper understanding of our universe, this worldview actually undermines real science and marginalizes morality and religion. In this book, celebrated philosopher J. P. Moreland exposes the self-defeating nature of scientism and equips us to recognize...

The second shift is in the realm of guidance for living one’s life, and it goes from truth to the immediate satisfaction of desire. Scientism tells us that there is no truth related to the meaning and purpose of life; the difference between right and wrong or virtue and vice; life after death; and, of course, God himself. And even if there were truths in these areas, no one could have a clue as to what they were. It follows that truth as a first-priority guide for living must be dethroned. After
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