scientific worldview
Evidence-based understanding
A scientific worldview holds that the natural world operates according to discoverable laws and that systematic observation, experimentation, and reason are the best tools for understanding reality.
It privileges empirical evidence over tradition, authority, or revelation.
Those with a scientific worldview tend to reject supernatural explanations, viewing phenomena as ultimately explicable through natural causes: Her scientific worldview made her skeptical of claims about miracles.
- empiricismKnowledge through observation
- naturalismWorldview excluding the supernatural
- experimentationSystematic testing of ideas
- falsifiabilitySusceptibility to disproof
- double blindStudy hiding group assignments
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- originsbeginning, birth, creation, source, roots
- secularizationsecularization, dechristianization, disaffiliation, church closures, church-state separation
scientific worldviewsupernaturalism
Belief in nonphysical forces
mysticism · creationism · fundamentalism · spiritualism · divine revelation
scientific worldviewfolk belief
Traditional unverified cultural notion
superstition · intelligent design · vitalism · pseudoscience · astrology
scientific worldviewanti-intellectualism
Hostility toward educated thought
obscurantism · irrationalism · blind faith · dogmatism · traditionalism
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