The consensus in the scientific community is that altering atmospheric composition by the addition of carbon dioxide and trace gases will eventually lead to a ____________ planet with a different distribution of climatic regimes.
Introduction | Criticisms of Scientism. Scientism is the broad-based belief that the assumptions and methods of research of the physical and natural sciences are equally appropriate (or even essential) to all other disciplines, including philosophy, the humanities and the social sciences.
Thus asceticism according to the definition of St. Jerome, is an effort to attain true perfection, penance being only an auxiliary virtue thereto. It should be noted also that the expression fasting and abstinence is commonly used in Scripture and by ascetic writers as a generic term for all sorts of penance.