How to spot religion in science clothing

How can you easily spot religion in science clothing? According to New Scientist book review editor Amanda Gefter, look for these code words:

  1. Scientific Materialism
  2. The invocation of Cartesian dualism
  3. Misguided interpretations of quantum physics (also a "New Age" giveaway)
  4. The terms "Darwinism" or "Darwinist" (scientists refer to "evolution" and "biologists")
  5. Referring to natural selection as "blind", "random" or an "undirected process"
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It’s time to abolish “Darwinism”

Writing on a NYT blog, Olivia Judson argues that we should abolish "Darwinism." Here's what she means: I’d like to abolish the insidious terms Darwinism, Darwinist and Darwinian. They suggest a false narrowness to the field of modern evolutionary biology, as though it was the brainchild of a single person…

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