The Philos-Sophia Vlog | Mendacity in Science
In this special extended finale episode, Wolfgang and Richard discuss some very timely issues about the role and function of the scientific establishment, how t...
Scientism
The Wisdom of Wolfgang Smith | The Starting Point
In a sense the starting point and main emphasis in my work has been to discredit what I term the scientistic worldview. “Scientistic” rather ...
The Wisdom of Wolfgang Smith | New Oracle
Imagine a father or mother hugging their child in the belief that it is an aggregate of “quantum stuff”! I mean, it is really horrible even t...
The Wisdom of Wolfgang Smith | Utterly Dehumanized
When you stop to reflect upon this discrepancy between what we believe in our “scientific” moments, so to speak—when we consciously accept ...
The Wisdom of Wolfgang Smith | Illusion
When it comes right down to it nobody believes this fully, because most of the time during the day the grass is green. I mean, even a physicist will see ...
The Wisdom of Wolfgang Smith | Scientism and Ideology
A great deal of what we call science is scientism, which is to say that it’s ideology driven. What we are facing here is not “science,”...
Gnosticism Today
Wolfgang Smith Based upon the almost universally overlooked distinction between scientific fact and scientistic belief, I have had much to say in recent years c...
The Wisdom of Wolfgang Smith | A Completely Skewed Worldview
We have been educated in a completely skewed worldview. We have an upside-down view of almost everything because, as I say, we are officially persuaded t...
Evolutionist Scientism: Darwinist, Theistic, and Einsteinian
Wolfgang Smith It may be well to begin by reminding ourselves that science is closely allied with a variety of credenda which are not “scientific” at all, a...
Science, Scientism, and Spirituality
Wolfgang Smith What distinguishes science from scientism, in my terminology, is the fact that scientific tenets are based upon empirical evidence—and are more...