You haven’t really defined what you mean by scientism.
***I think it was succinctly defined in post #47.
Do you really mean evolutionism?
***We can call it whatever you want to call it.
There are so many true scientific disciplines that do not engender the deep philosophical biases that are usually best described as religion. Do we really want to call them religion? I don’t.
***I note that so many true scientific disciplines do not seem to have a faith element nor an emotional attachment to the discipline that the evo stuff has. When we do, then it would probably be proper to include them in such an ecumenical discussion system so they can talk things out on a reasonable plane.
What is putting your faith in science?
I constantly “put my faith” in reliable technologies that were developed by scientific means to accomplish various rapid, high precision measurements; does that mean that I am practicing a religion?
I think that using the word ‘science’ in this manner is counter-productive. It’s something else; not science in any way (although many of its proponents try to claim the title ‘scientist’ in the persuit thereof)