Week7,Charles Harper, Beyond Belief 8

Charles Harper was the second speaker in this part of the conferenceand he basically talked about what the meaning of ideological sciencemeans. He states that scientism "is the philosophy which proposedscience to be a philosophy, world views, cultural reform agenda, orcomprehensive way of life." The meaning of ideological scientismis "the ideology which projects itself into cultural politics as beingrepresentative of science, but does not utilize the scientificmethods." He considers attack books as rational politics that is abusiness that sells the conflict between science and religion. I thinkthat all the scientists that have spoken in this conference believe inscientism because they are not open minded abut the topic of religionand only believe in what they think is accurate, which is science. Ifound that this speaker was also off the topic, but defined the meaningof science pretty well. I disagree that science blames everything onreligion for the problems that humans encounter in life, but think thatscience is a remedy for the cure of problems such as cancer, AIDS, anddiseases that require the backup of it.