"Scientism"
"Scientism" is a word flung at us non-believers when we refuse to take
unverifiable claims of divine revelation, dubious historical records,
anecdotal reports and uncontrolled case studies as hard evidence of the
supernatural. "You're closed-minded," they say. But like the old saying
goes, don't be so open-minded your brain falls out. Demanding good
empirical evidence to support claims about reality isn't closed-minded –
it's open-minded because you're showing that your position is amenable to evidence. It's
the person who credulously assumes that the unexplained is
paradoxically explained by the supernatural without demanding independently verifiable evidence
who has truly closed their mind.
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