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A belief system that adopts the outward forms, authority claims, and ritual practices of science while functioning as a religion: providing ultimate meaning, moral guidance, and a sense of belonging. Scientific religion treats the scientific method as a sacred text, scientists as priests, and consensus as dogma. It demands faith in progress, reductionism, and the eventual omnicompetence of science. While not all science enthusiasts fall into this, scientific religion appears wherever “science” becomes a capitalized, reified entity that answers existential questions—exactly the kind of “scientism” critiqued by philosophers of science.
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