Scientism Poisons Everything

by Asa Boxer

David Berlinski (b. 1942) left. Christopher Hitchens (1949-2011) right. A British-American author and journalist, Hitchens is a hero among atheists, largely for his outspoken attacks against religion. He brooks no quarter in his excoriation of religion and has gone so far as to impugn the activities of Mother Teresa. Berlinski is a mathematician, molecular biologist, science historian and philosopher and an outspoken sceptic of New Atheism and its Neo-Darwinist beliefs. He has been critical of all so-called “scientific facts” that are nothing more than hypotheses based on shaky propositions and questionable math. Examples include quantum physics and black hole theory.

Bad Atheism

In the introduction to Michael Shermer’s How We Believe,¹ he reviews a couple of extreme responses concerning his suggestion that it’s okay to believe in God. One interlocutor wrote, “Anything less” than complete rejection of “religion/belief” was “duplicitous, disingenuous, appeasing—and ultimately helps the ot…