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| | Islam & Science: Science, scientism, and the liberal arts |
 | | Politically, scientism functions as an ideology of arrogance which places the scientist (correction: in the case of much of today's Muslim world, one should rather say, "the applied scientist"; even better: "the technician") upon a pedestal, thereby intimidating the common citizen who is dazzled, puzzled, and often dislocated by technology. |
 | | In much of the developing world today, particularly among countries populated by Muslim majorities, a dreadful ideological disease has erupted, spreading as an epidemic through several generations already. |
 | | This recognition may shatter comforting constructs of the scientism camp, but the study of language, arts, music, poetry, history, philosophy, society, religion--these are all relevant to scientific development; here I speak of a direct relevance for which we have an enormous body of evidence. |
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