where the Line leads

[Doug Millison]

http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?articleID=000AA74F-FF5F-1CDB-B4A8809EC588EEDF&c
atID=2

[...] "What is it about Hawking that draws us to him as a scientific saint?
He is, I believe, the embodiment of a larger social phenomenon known as
scientism. Scientism is a scientific worldview that encompasses natural
explanations for all phenomena, eschews supernatural and paranormal
speculations, and embraces empiricism and reason as the twin pillars of a
philosophy of life appropriate for an Age of Science. [...] because of
language we are also storytelling, mythmaking primates, with scientism as
the foundational stratum of our story and scientists as the premier
mythmakers of our time. [...]